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Jun 2023
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The Warm Up Track: Dream Miles and Screa...

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The Warm Up Track is back! Season Three continues with Commonwealth 1500m Champion Oliver Hoare and World 200m Finalist, Luxolo Adams.

Who could have made it as a professional footballer?

Whose Dad woke the neighbours up honking the car horn when his son won?

What’s the strangest thing an opponent has done to win the psychological battle pre-race?

How do you process being compared to one of your country’s all-time greats, who was winning their medals more than 60 years ago?

We also discuss track and field’s new fly-on-the-wall documentaries – being shot this season – and the need for the sport to find characters and tell their stories.

Plus, we hear first-hand how the visa issues which affected a number of athletes before last year’s World Championships impacted directly on one of our guests.

Photo: Oliver Hoare of Team Australia celebrates after winning the gold medal in the Men's 1500m Final on day nine of the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games at Alexander Stadium on August 06, 2022 on the Birmingham, England. (Credit: Getty Images)

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