Eric Jenkins and Aisha Praught-Leer get on the mics in the immediate aftermath of the 2025 World Indoor Championships in Poland. This episode also features the first-ever announcement of an Off the Rails live event.
Discussed in this episode:
• Cooper Lutkenhaus wins the men's 800m at 17, running 1:44.24 – the youngest men's world indoor champion ever in T&F.
• Keely Hodgkinson dominates the women's 800m in 1:55.3 and her coach Jenny Meadows claps back at media commentary on Keely's body composition.
• Georgia Hunter-Bell wins the women's 1500m in 3:58, with Jess Hull silver and Nikki Hiltz bronze in a photo finish.
• Women's 3000m descends into chaos with contact and falls; Nadia Battocletti wins, Emily Mackay takes silver in a breakout performance.
• Men's 3000m: Josh Kerr delivers a tactical masterclass over Cole Hocker, mirroring his Milrose 'sleep' celebration back at Hocker.
• Spain's Mariano Garcia wins men's 1500m
• Sprint recap: Jordan Anthony wins men's 60m gold; Trayvon Bromell claims bronze a decade after his 2016 Portland gold.
• World Indoors future venues: India and Kazakhstan — Aisha raises concerns about India's anti-doping situation.
• Mondo Duplantis tapped to write and perform the theme song for the 2026 World Athletics Championships.
• Emma Grace Hurley breaks Deena Kastor's 21-year Shamrock Shuffle 8K course record (24:29).
• Karissa Schweizer leaves the Bowerman Track Club, now training with coach Chris Miltenberg in Portland.
• The streaming fragmentation in track and field media and the need for affordable pay-per-view options.
• Announcement: Off the Rails' first-ever live event will be on Friday, April 17 in Boston, in partnership with Under Armour.
• Listener voicemail segment covers: all-time dream DMR teams, eye contact etiquette on runs, healthcare gaps for pro athletes, and World Indoors bean bag chairs.
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