racewalking

Evan Dunfee is a Bronze medalist at the 2020 Olympics in Race Walking. He won his medal on the 50km race, which was since then discontinued at the Olympics, so he hopes to compete in the 20km race in Paris next year.

Race walking is not a popular sport, with only a few professionals in this discipline across the globe, and Evan is one of them.

He brings us through the journey that brought this young kid in school, trying to prove himself to other kids, to his Olympic medal, and the joy he has to be able to share his successes with his community.

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Canadian Olympic race walker Evan Dunfee is back to tell us how race walking works. Really -- we actually get into the sport this week (though don't count out novela talk)!

Evan talks about the mechanics of the sport, the discrepancy between TV cameras and judges' human eyes, and possible career opportunities once he ends his pro racing career. Oh, a little Rule 50 chat, just for fun.

You can follow Evan at @evandunfee on Twitter, Insta and Strava and read more about him at his website.

What are our TKFLASTANIs up to this week? A LOT! We've got news from:

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Throughout 2021 we're revisiting great stories from Atlanta 1996! For our Atlanta 1996 moment this week, we discuss the race walking competitions--a women's distance that's no longer contested, an amazing win in the men's 20K and a men's 50K racer with a training plan we can get behind.

We also have Games Updates from:

• Tokyo 2020 - We're less than 100 days from the Tokyo 2020 Opening Ceremony! Japan's oldest woman carried the torch in the torch relay! Australia's planning live site watch parties and a kids' art contest to decorate athletes' room walls at the Village! More COVID-19 plans!
  
• Beijing 2022 - During the Team USA Media Summit, US Olympic & Paralympic Committee's Board of Directors Chair Susanne Lyons had some words on the possibility of a boycott.
  

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When Olympic race walker Evan Dunfee joined us to talk about his sport, little did we know we were in for some maranovela talk! In part 1 of our interview with Evan, we talk about the marathon and race walks' move to Sapporo and his opinions about the switch. Plus, the controversy over his race place at Rio 2016 and how Canadians embraced their best race walker.

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What are our TKFLASTANIs up to this week? We've got news from:

• Film producer John MacLeod
• Modern pentathlete Samantha Schultz
• Curler John Shuster

Throughout 2021 we're revisiting great stories from Atlanta 1996! For our Atlanta 1996 moment this week, Alison tells us how Atlanta's Table used the Olympics to make a difference in the community.

We also have Games Updates from Tokyo 2020 and the torch relay. Sexism in Japan? Oh, yeah.

 

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Can you walk a 6-minute mile? Evan is a professional race walker, who placed 4th in the 50km Race Walk at the Rio Olympic Games in 2016 where he also set the Canadian Record for that distance. He earned bronze at the 2019 50km Race Walk World Championships, and holds the Canadian Record in the 10km.

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In this episode, Hillary reviews Season 2 (Episode 7) titled, "Our Answer for Everything" from the TV show, "Snowpiercer."

“Doing the right thing is always the right thing.”

Episode 13 of the Ali on the Run Show had a massive impact — one that hasn’t slowed in the more than three years since that must-listen episode aired. Today, Episode 13’s Chris Mosier, the transgender Hall of Fame triathlete and duathlete whom The BBC and New York Magazine called “the man who changed the Olympics,” returns to the show to catch up on what he’s been up to since we recorded that conversation. Chris talks about the progress we’ve made regarding transgender rights, and addresses the steps we’ve taken in the wrong direction. He also talks about his foray into race-walking, and shares what it was like competing at the race-walking Olympic Trials earlier this year.

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