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Pushkin.

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Hello,

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hello, deep background listeners, Malcolm

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Gladwell here. I'm so excited to

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bring you season 7 in just

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two short weeks. I'm dropping into

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your feeds to share a new podcast.

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I've been working on the new show called

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Legacy of speed as

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you may know, I'm totally nuts about running. So

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when tracksmith approached Pushkin to

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make a show about running and sports activism,

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I was all-in, legacy

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speed is series about the transformation

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of attract program at san jose state in

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the nineteen sixties what started

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out as just second tier state college

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that no one outside northern california

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had even heard of quickly became

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known as the home to speed city under

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the guidance of one coach and is unconventional

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techniques center they launched

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the careers of the fastest sprinters

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of the day the traced the journey

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of those sprinters who went on to make

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an iconic protest at the nineteen

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sixty eight some roman the

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show features conversations with olympic

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athletes sports journalists performance

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coaches and document errands you'll

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hear from someone the best runners of all time

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don carlos the

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oven the story about athletes

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who dared to take stand and the mentors

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who made them fast and brave

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enough that paved the way for

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the sports activism we see today

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the preview you can follow

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the story the searching for legacy

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speed wherever you get your bike

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guess

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sammy would you explain to the people of

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america exactly what you did

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and why is this

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first about how it will accept very happy

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to have one at , summer

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olympics and nineteen sixty eight to

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american sprinters stepped onto

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the victory stand accepted metals

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on goals on bronze then

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star spangled banner played a

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bow their heads and raised

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their fists

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right love that , wore

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my right hand signify the power

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and black america that

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image of to black athletes standing in

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defiant silent protest

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that's one of most famous moments in sports history

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the story

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behind is good and sports

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i'm are comparable and i'm hosting a new

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podcast from pushed industries called

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legacy the feast it's , group

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of unlikely characters from scrappy

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state college track team could

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change the world the

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school was san jose state to

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, coach was an eccentric named

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but winter winter method seem

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strange at strange then

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i said to myself this the first genes aramis

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is mine was always busy of

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how to make as one faster using

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techniques he tested on fighter pilots

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bud turned good sprinters turned

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printers john carlos

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who printers the third like no

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one ever has speeding one

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from his opposition and as the

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world records fell san jose state became

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known as speed city and

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it's citizens with assessed as speed

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on the planet

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the

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something else was happening at

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san jose state

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a sport stage can be transformed

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into a platform to make statements

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that people cannot help but

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hear

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the former athlete term professor named

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harry edwards started a social

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justice movement on campus

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speed city's biggest stars led the movement

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and olympics officials tried to stop

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it what happened next

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was that iconic protest

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a decade later athletes are

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still trying to change the world overnight

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, forty niners quarterback colin

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kaepernick kaepernick

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in the national anthem again and

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athletes inspired by but winter inspired

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by shuttering letters lol

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join me for a trip to speed city

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listen to legacy of speed wherever

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you get your podcast that

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was a preview of legacy of speed you

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can follow the stories by searching

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for legacy of speech wherever

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you get your podcast