This Week In Track & Field: Recapping The Rest Of The London Diamond League + Preet’s Perspective Watching Josh Kerr’s World Record In-Stadium

This Week In Track & Field: Recapping The Rest Of The London Diamond League + Preet’s Perspective Watching Josh Kerr’s World Record In-Stadium

From The CITIUS MAG Podcast | A Running + Track and Field Show by CITIUS MAG

July 20, 2026 · 1h 16m

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Chris Chavez and Preet Majithia discuss the highlights and implications of the London Diamond League, focusing on Josh Kerr's world record and its overshadowing by other events.

Chris Chavez and Preet Majithia reconvene to debrief the rest of the London Diamond League. Chris and Kyle Merber’s emergency pod captured the immediate reaction; this episode is the follow-up, covering everything that got overshadowed by the world record. We discuss: – Preet in the building: Eight flights of stairs between the mixed zone and the seating area to watch Josh Kerr’s world record run. – Post-race mixed zone: Josh got emotional exactly once — when Hannah England asked him about the mental toll of the entire process. His first beer since his December wedding was that Saturday night. For a Scotsman, six months without a beer is its own kind of suffering. – Was the world record overshadowed by the World Cup? The day before the World Cup final, England played France in a 6-4 third-place match the same evening. The next morning, BBC Sport’s homepage had zero stories about Josh Kerr. – Does this get Josh knighted? Chris’s very American question. – Does the mile world record mean as much globally as the 1500? Preet raises the question: the mile matters enormously in the US and UK, but does it land elsewhere? – Sawe vs. Kerr: which was bigger? – Women’s 800m — Keely wins in…

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