Socialing The Distance, Featuring Grant Holloway, 60m Hurdle Indoor World Record Holder, Tokyo Olympic silver medalist

RunBlogRun presents
Socialing The Distance with Larry Eder
Featuring Grant Holloway,

World Indoor record holder, 60m hurdles,

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2nd fastest 110m Hurdler ever

Tokyo Silver medalist, 110m Hurdles,

defending World Champion from 2019, and

World Indoor Champion, 2022

Originally published Oct 22, 2021.

This interview is one of my favorites. I am reposting this Grant Holloway interview because I wanted you to see how Grant came back from his Tokyo Olympics upset and moved on. In March 2022, he won the World Indoors and he told me on June 12, 2022, that he would be ready to roll come World Championships time. His two rounds in Eugene at the USATF Champs over June 24-25 showed that. Now we will see how he looks at the World Championshps.

Enjoy the interview.

Grant Holloway is one of the most charismatic, entertaining, talented and hard working athletes that I have ever met or observed. His skills over the 60m hurdles and 110 meter hurdles are enthralling! This past winter, Grant broke the three-decade-plus record of Colin Jackson at 60m. This past summer, Grant Holloway ran the second-fastest time in the 110m hurdles (12.81) and made it look so easy.

Just six weeks later, in his only 98 percent race of the year, Grant Holloway showed us that, occasionally, he was human. He took the Olympic silver medal, when Hansle Parchment, the 2012 Olympic bronze medalist, 2015 WC silver medalist and 2018 Commonwealth silver medalist, saw a break in Holloway’s perfect hurdling and took the gold from Grant. That’s an Olympic final, one is either all on fire, or someone will catch you.

Grant Holloway, 2021 U.S. Olympic Trials champion, #2 All time, 110m hurdles, Olympic silver medalist, photo by Kevin Morris / @kevmofoto

Showing class worthy of a future all time great, Grant Holloway made no excuses and noted that he will just have to wait until 2024 Paris for Olympic gold. This interview was a lot of fun. Just a normal conversation with one of adidas’ most highly regarded athletes, Grant Holloway is the present and future of hurdling.

Time Stamps:

0:00 –Introduction

0:36 –Competing in Europe after Trials

2:34 –US Trials

3:48 –Feelings during the Final at the Trials

4:52 –The Heat in Eugene

6:00 – Heading to Tokyo

6:44 – Europe after Tokyo?

7:21 – Track Spikes and performance

8:53 – Improvements in your race in the last 18 months

10:21 – Sleeping arrangements in Tokyo

11:53 – How excited are you to go to the Olympics?

12:34 – The Championship Mindset

15:12 – First time you dreamed of the Olympics

17:12 – Making the Olympic team

18:09 – The Relays

19:23 – Internet Problems

20:31 – The relationship between media and athletes

21:59 – Why do you love the hurdles?

22:49 – What kind of kid should go into the hurdles?

22:59 – Is the 110m Hurdles the toughest event?

23:13 – Is the 110m Hurdles the most precise event?

23:26 – How often can you race at your level?

24:49 – If not hurdle, what event would you try?

25:19 – Would you ever try the decathlon?

25:44 – Thoughts on Warholm’s WR?

26:32 – Are rivalries good for the sport?

26:59 – Thoughts on crowds vs no crowds in Tokyo?

27:17 – How important was the Indoor WR?

28:01 – Time spent on Social Media

28:10 – Still gaming?

28:31 – What do you do to relax?

28:53 – Do you have a hype song before races?

29:09 – Fan of Netflix?

29:27 – Passing time on long flights?

29:50 – 4 Top Current Hurdlers

30:17 – 4 Greatest Hurdlers of all time

31:03 – Thoughts on Aries Merritt

32:02 – World Champs 2022

32:15 – Thoughts on the new Hayward Field

32:55 – The crowd in Hungary

33:16 – More health and safety

34:43 – Ending

35:40 – Epilogue

Grant on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Flaamingoo_
Grant on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/flaamingoo_/

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Larry Eder
Larry Eder has had a 52-year involvement in the sport of athletics. Larry has experienced the sport as an athlete, coach, magazine publisher, and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America's first sub-4 minute miler, was published in RW in 1983. Larry has published several magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. version of Spikes magazine. He currently manages the content and marketing development of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his daily pilgrimage with the sport, Larry says: "I have to admit, I love traveling to far away meets, writing about the sport I love, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, the most of anything I have ever done, except, maybe running itself." Also does some updates for BBC Sports at key events, which he truly enjoys. Theme song: Greg Allman, " I'm no Angel."
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