Best of Track World Athletics Championships Part 2: Melissa Jefferson-Wooden JOINS + Unc throwing SHOTS at Jamaica

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Hey, don't think I didn't see what y'all said, Jamaica, but we about to get that gold medal.

We're about to get gold and silver in the 200.

Let them know.

Talk to them.

Y'all be talking.

Y'all make it seem like the Olympics just inserted the 100 meters in 2008

when USA burst on the team, on the scene.

Now, I'm not going to take anything from him.

He's the greatest sprinter that ever lived.

Facts.

Not going to take anything from him.

But when it comes to sprinting, and it's incredible what the Jamaicans have been able to do when you look at Ocho, a country that size.

You're talking about,

you know, what, four million people?

Yeah.

If that.

Yeah.

yeah and to have the great i mean and and and some of the women i mean you look at uh shelly annfrazier i mean they've always had merlene oddie uh she never won gold but she you know she was always silver bronze uh on the olympics and the world championships so they've had they've had good good sprinters um

vcb veronica camber brown uh sharon stewart they've they've had great women sprinters.

So don't get me wrong.

I don't want to say anything.

But

y'all know what time it is, right?

Y'all know what time it is, okay?

So, if you go back and look at the world championships, I'm gonna say the last 15, 20 years.

I mean, we're right there.

I know y'all think the Jamaicans, you know, been running phase, but go back and look at it.

Go back and look it up.

I know y'all only go back to 2008 because you sane, and I get all that, but you know, the Olympics, the modern Olympics is 130 years old.

They first instituted the Olympics, the modern Olympics, in 1896.

I'm just, you know,

I just say it.

If you look at it, if you look at it,

gold medal in the Olympics, gold medal in the world championships.

I feel very comfortable.

Do y'all have the greatest male

and female woman sprinter of all time?

Yes.

Usain is the greatest, is the greatest male sprinter.

He's the greatest sprinter.

Woman sprinter is Shelly Ann Brazier Price.

Absolutely.

I'm not arguing that.

I'm not.

I'm not.

I'm not arguing that.

Shelly Ann is unbelievable.

I mean, five world championships, two Olympic goals,

a 200-meter championship, two 4x1 championships.

What's the argument?

She's the greatest.

You say, I don't even have to say anything.

I don't need to say, hey, you just say, you say, both, the greatest sprinter ever.

Shelly Ann is the greatest woman sprinter ever.

But, you know, we're going to see what we're going to see.

We're going to try to make it.

We're going to make a two for two sweepstakes.

Yeah.

Hey, MJ got this.

Yeah.

And y'all already know Noah

got something for y'all.

Oblique, go see Noah in the 200.

Chris Shane, go see him in the 200.

Y'all want some?

Y'all want smoke?

Yeah.

All my fellow Jamaicans, you know, I love you.

Yeah,

I love you.

Every last one of you.

I get them Jamaican oxtails at least once a month.

Yeah.

What go on?

Yeah, but y'all be that be talking reckless, man.

Look, I talk about it.

It is an upset.

First of all, it is an upset because noah was the reigning olympic and world champ what do you mean it wasn't an upset

it is if you beat the champ it's an upset i'm not saying the oblique hadn't been running well no i hadn't been noah hadn't had a whole lot he was dealing with some injuries that's what he said he didn't run a whole lot didn't run a whole lot of 100 meters didn't run a whole and he's he he's taught himself he's a 200 meter specialist like you saying,

that taught himself how to be a good 100-meter runner, Ocho.

But I gave Seville and Thompson the credit.

They're going to go and say they did.

They beat him.

But I'm worried.

I'm worried about this 200.

Why, look,

I'm waiting a little bit.

He seems to be fit.

So it should look.

We know about Noah.

We know about Beneric.

We know about Tobogo.

I don't know if anybody else can really challenge those three.

Noah seems to be as he's run

and he had to run rounds.

He's kind of run himself

conditioned where he needs to be because there's nothing like racing.

You can go there and practice all you want to, but you got to race.

You got to get your body conditioned to run those four rounds.

And

I like Noah's chances.

We'll see.

I love him.

I don't like it.

I love it.

Yes.

And if he doesn't win, it's going to be an upset.

It is.

I know Tobogo, but I mean, you talk about a guy that's won, what, three world championships.

And everybody that's in this race, he has the fastest time.

He's run 1931.

He has the fastest time this year in 1963.

Big Neric is close behind him in 1967.

And then Tobogo is at, what, 70, 1976.

We know Tobogo has run night, I think he ran 1941, 1943 at the Olympics.

So we know

Tobogo can run.

We know he has 200-meter capabilities.

He got DQ'd out of the 100-meters, but it's going to be interesting to see.

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Uh-oh.

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What y'all what a quit up.

Man, ladies here.

I'm taking Noah.

We're getting gold and silver.

We're going to pay y'all's ass back.

Y'all took gold and silver in the hundred.

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Fullness I've been to 200.

That's what we're about to do, OJo.

That's what we're about to do.

uh

here she is

here she is hey joining us the late world's fastest woman here she is all the way from tokyo

she got the bronze medal in paris she says she wasn't satisfied she says i want to be reach my maximum potential and she did at the world track and field championships in tokyo just a few days ago she ran 1061 which is the fourth fastest time ever run by a woman.

We got Flojo, who ran 1049 at the USA's in Indy.

And in 2021, I don't know what was in the water because you got Elaine Thompson-Herrer run 1054 in Eugene.

And then you had Shelly Ann Fraser Price, the Pocket Rocket, run 1060 in Lazan.

And here she is.

We had a conversation, MJ.

I say, I think if you, with these ladies in,

with the right win, I say, I believe you can go 10.

I believe you can go sub 10, 6.

You had a negative headwind.

I believe if you get the plus, you get a plus one.

You get a plus one, five, you're going 10, you're going sub 10, 6.

Do you believe that?

Congratulations.

Tell us how you, before we get into that, how you feeling?

I'm feeling good.

Thank y'all.

I told you I was coming back.

You told you, hey, you say, hey, I say, when you win that gold medal, that has it.

When you win the gold medal, make sure you come back and tell us about it.

Oh, yeah.

And your Wi-Fi is perfect.

Listen, Tokyo, Tokyo, it's so efficient over here.

Everything is great.

The Wi-Fi is good.

I know it's good because I brought my game and I could play Call of Duty.

So you're going into.

So obviously, is your coach over there with you?

So tell me your strategies.

So obviously, it's survive in advance.

You're trying to be as efficient as you're possible.

I'm not trying to expend any more than I have to to advance and get through the rounds.

And so that's what I'm trying to do.

And once I get to the finals, I'm going to drop the hammer.

Is that kind of your strategy?

Survive in advance, doing as little as possible.

Yep, the that's the name of the game when it comes to these championships and the rounds is to just uh conserve as much energy as possible.

And then when you get to that last round, it's just about who can put together the perfect race at the perfect time.

And I just kind of look at it as I'm gonna just lay it all out because I mean, I've been working for this very moment, so there's no need to be trying to hold anything back, just let it rip.

Do you believe if you get a positive tailwind you could have gone 10 uh sub 10 6

absolutely i thought i was going to run 10 5 if i'm being honest i knew it really

hold on 10 hold on 10 10 5 8 10 5 5 or or lower than that

if i'm being completely honest i thought that i had a chance to run anywhere between 1052 and 1055 with the right tailwind.

Well, that, well, now you're talking about a right tailwind.

You're probably going to need

probably about a 1.5.

And a 1.5 would probably get you what you wanted, probably a 1055, maybe a little lower.

But I felt that with the women in this race, you look at Juliana Alfred to St.

Lucian, you look at Tia Clayton.

So you had the women.

Talou is always dangerous from the Ivory Coast.

She's dangerous.

Dina Asher Smith, she's dangerous.

Your training partner, Shakari, she's run 1065.

There's not a whole lot of women that's run

sub 10-7.

She's one.

So you had the women in the race.

You had the track.

You just needed a little bit more favorable conditions.

And I believe you go sub 10-6.

Yep, for sure.

And I say that too.

And then even looking back at the race, like, obviously it was one of the best races of my life.

It was the fastest I've ever ran.

But I look at the race and I still see areas where I could have improved on.

Like I probably could have been a tad bit more explosive coming out the blocks or, you know, just running through.

Well, I ran through my transition very well.

I feel like the weakest part of my race the other night was probably the start.

Yes, I would agree.

And that's, and that's just because I like to be able to create the separation.

Like my coach drills into my head, like, you know, when we get in certain races, obviously the game plan changes, but for races like these in this moments, you're the biggest advantage that I can have for myself is to put it away in the first 30 meters.

I feel like going back at it, like if I could do it all over again, I would probably be that much more aggressive at the start.

And then you take, you take my start, make it a little bit more aggressive with how the rest of the race went for me.

I probably would.

I probably wouldn't have needed a win.

I probably wouldn't have needed a tailwind to run.

Matter of fact, I don't know.

Boy, that finish.

Hey, Tia Clayton pulled up.

She like, where you, MJ, where you going?

Get up out of here.

Where you going?

You ain't finna get damned.

That's me.

Hey, MJ,

when it comes to racing and always having a game plan when you're going against women that are great as those that you went against today, or, well,

it's 1.30.

It's 1.38 out there, huh?

It's,

yeah, it's like 2.30.

It's like 2.30 in the afternoon here on Wednesday.

No, Tuesday.

You always have a game plan going to a race like that.

What part of the race is your strength?

Would you say?

i would like to say my strength in my race is my start start yes but sometimes i have a tendency like i think i've been so focused on trying to make the other part of my races better it's almost kind of like i find i find comfort in knowing not being complacent or prideful or anything like that but like my start is kind of like the part of the race where i don't necessarily have to worry about it just it with with my start it just it has more so to do with uh how aggressive I am attacking the front side angle and things like that but I really try my hardest to focus on the other parts of the race so like the transition acceleration and keeping up with my frequency like I've always had the frequency but in the past I just wasn't strong enough to be able to meet or let it get the let it get the best of me if that makes sense so like my legs could be moving this fast but then if my arms ain't doing that like if I can't can't keep up with the amount of turnover and frequency that I have, then that's when things start to go wrong in the race.

So I feel like this year, just in that race alone, like I feel like

I feel like my acceleration and my transition was probably like the best I've ever had.

Yeah.

When you look at a race

and training, I'm sure your coach is drilling your head.

There's two ways to increase speed.

stride length and stride frequency.

How far are you out and how quickly do you pick them up and put them down?

You look at Usain Boat.

He's the the perfect sprinter.

You talk about a guy that had a stride length and he had the stride frequency and it's taking him probably 40 steps to run 100 meters.

So when you, when you, you said, I'm a starter, but for some reason, was it in the back of your mind?

Did you know, did you see that Tobogo had false started?

Is that in the back of your mind?

Like, look.

I am not going to blow this.

I still believe I'm even with these women in this race, you got Talou and you got Alfred and you got Clayton and you got Sharika Jackson and you got Shakari.

They're in this race.

But in the condition that I'm in right now, they can't beat me.

The only way, the only person that can beat Melissa Jefferson Wooden is if I fall start.

If I don't fall start,

they can't see me.

They got, they ain't getting nothing but tail pipes to date.

And it's true because I think it's crazy because I did the same thing at U.S.

trials.

Like, I feel like this year, my best start was probably when I ran at Pre-Fontaine and Eugene.

So like maybe about a couple of weeks out before U.S.

trials, but even like going through the rounds at U.S.

trials, I was very,

I was very like, I played it safe with all of my starts through the rounds, but it was just, I think, I think like I agree with you.

I think that I know what I have in the tank and I don't want to put myself in a predicament to mess that up.

So I'd rather play it safe than to, you know, have that one time where I I think like, oh, no, this is the one.

And then it'd be, it's a little bit too, too much.

So yeah.

Is it a situation, MJ, that maybe you get a Diamond League meet where you don't have to run the rounds?

It's one time, it's one crack.

You know,

I go over there a couple of days earlier.

I get acclimated.

I don't have to get off a plane and I'm running in three hours, something like that.

Where I go over there and I get acclimated for a couple of days and I only got one race.

Is it a situation like that where you feel you can put something together?

Because we're we're asking you to do an awful lot, and I understand it's three, you know, to put rounds together and then run fast at the end.

Because even though you're trying to be as efficient as possible, you're still moving at a pretty good rate, you're still burning gas, so to speak.

And so, is it, do you think a 10-5,

it was possible, but what do you think about if you just get that one race?

So, you know what, this is it?

Yeah, I think, I think, without a, I think without a doubt, it would have happened because then it would have just been like one and done.

Like, this is it.

You only get

the tanks.

Yep.

Empty the tank.

That's literally it.

When you think about it, no American woman, and we've had some fast, only one American woman has ever won faster than your 1061.

Carmeletta, good friend, hey, she runs 1064.

We got Shakari at 1065.

We got Marion Jones at 1065.

We got some.

So you're in a very elite company.

I believe in the next

year, maybe two, you're going to

join Elaine and Flojo, that 10-4, 10-5-ish group.

Have you thought about it?

When you wrote your goals down coming into this year, was 10-5 on that paper?

So 10-5, this year, writing down my goals, 10-5 wasn't on the paper.

10-6 definitely was, though.

I wrote down 10-68.

And then when I ran 1065 at trials, it was kind of just like, oh, well, excuse you.

I what you're talking about actually

to my own self so um but then it's just like a testament to the work that i put in and me knowing that like you know um i'm a very firm believer in my faith and i know that the journey that i'm on the journey that i'm walking like god it's i'm right where i'm supposed to be where i'm supposed to be and so i can't put a limit on what I think that I can accomplish.

If I say that I believe in him wholeheartedly to the fullest extent and that he's literally guided my steps, then there's no possible way that I could put, you know, a limit on what I do.

So, and the same thing goes for the 200.

Like I ran 20, I had written down 21.9.

That was my end goal for the 200 for me this year.

And I ran 21.99

in

rain and 68 degree weather.

So I'm like, okay, Melissa, like, what are you actually talking about?

Like, what do you actually think you know?

Right.

So those are not favorable conditions, cold and rain.

The last thing a sprinter wants to see.

Now, a distance runner, he okay with the cool.

Yeah, he's a cool type of base.

He wants it.

They want it to be cool.

But as a sprinter, the way you're bound tight, you want it nice and, you know, 75.

I do 75.

Give me a little nice little tailwind, but you don't want windy.

You don't want rain.

You slip it and all that other stuff.

So now.

And I'm looking at this race and I'm looking at the women that's in this race yourself and Julian Lafford has run 1070.

You know, Sharika Jackson run run 1065 shelly and has run 1060 uh uh uh talou had run 1070 i think 1075.

uh she she's run a monster time so you got everything that you could possibly hope for you like you know what you look at around you like yeah

you're like

this is all barbecue chicken oxtail

yeah i mean well you feeling good so how did you feel going into how did you feel coming into the championships because you had run you were the favorite you had had run all the times.

And I kept like, well, damn, you put, you had, you know what, what I knew, Melissa, when you put back-to-back 10-6s, I said

there ain't been a whole lot of women that can back up 10-6 with another 10-6.

When you back that up, I said that if she don't fall start, ain't nobody beating her.

Is that when you knew you were ready to run fast, really fast?

I

think I knew after I ran

Philly's Grand Slam that this was going to be like that.

I feel like that's when it started before then, but it was really like, okay, no, I feel like it was, I put the stamp on it, like, no, this is your year to become a world champion.

It was after that meet.

And then going into trial or going into Pre-Fontaine, you know, it was the rematch of the Olympic podium.

Very much so.

It almost looked pretty identical to

the finals that we had last year in Paris.

So it was kind of like, all right, they beat you that time.

Don't let them beat you again.

And going into the race a couple of days ago, I remember we were in the call room and then they were about to walk us out for the final.

And I sat there and I just told myself and I was like, Melissa, tonight is your night, but it's not going to be given to you.

You're going to have to take it.

Like, don't just think that it's just going to come to you.

And then I looked around and all the women that I was getting ready to race against, they had all beaten me before.

And I said, well, they won't get me twice.

And I was the last thing I said

before I got to the line.

I was the last thing I said before I got to the line.

And then after the gun went off, it was just like, well, here we go.

I don't, I can honestly say, and I follow track and feel and everybody knows I'm a big track and feel fan.

I don't know if I've ever seen anybody finish as strong as you did.

I mean, because when Till Clayton challenge you, it's almost like race horses.

Because a lot of times talking to Bob Bafford and some famous trainers, Ocho, they say they'll tell their jockey, let the horse pull up next to him.

That horse knows he's in a competition against this other horse.

He just needs that somebody pulls up to his bumper.

And he knows he's there.

Now he gets another gear.

Melissa, when T.

Clayton pulled up,

I was like, okay.

Oh, I said, oh, oh.

And then you like,

where are you?

Do you act?

Where are you going?

I ain't even hit this turbo.

I ain't dropped this nitrous on you yet.

Ooh.

I said, well, damn.

Did you, did you know?

Did you, did you, have you seen, have you re-watched the race?

Did you see that you got another gear?

Did you see that for your own self?

I did.

So crazy enough, I did see it.

When I heard the gun go off, I remember me getting out and I was just like, okay, you got to clear the pack.

You got to clear the pack.

And then I got to the middle of the race and then it kind of went blank for a second.

And then the closer we got to the line, I was just like, don't do that thing you do where you like roll your shoulders, get all crazy.

I just went through the line.

And then after I ran through the line, it was kind of like, oh, I think I won, but I need to know, I need to see with my own eyes that I actually won.

So I didn't really feel myself hit that other gill.

It was just about really like just trying to, trying to stay clear of everybody else.

Are you, are you nervous before races?

I think about football games and right before kickoff, the music is playing.

And before they kick the ball off, I got butterflies in my stomach.

My stomach is tight.

I'm nervous.

until I actually have contact or I catch a touch of ball.

Like it's almost, I don't want to use the word scared, but nervous as before a race like that before you go in the blocks is there are your nerves okay or how do you calm yourself down

uh the biggest thing i do is just listen to music and i i kind of get a sense of that too like leading up so i was here about maybe a week before we started actually competing because we had relay camp and everything so

I think that was probably the longest week of my life because it was just like, okay, Melissa, you know you're ready to run.

There's There's no need to be anxious.

Like, just let the days go by.

And then the time difference here was crazy.

So the first couple of days, it was like, no matter how late I tried to go to sleep, I was still waking up at 4 or 5 a.m.

And then it was like, I finally got to the point to where I was waking up at six.

I'm like, okay, that's a little bit of progress.

But then it was just still like trying to get to the line.

So I think if anything, like, I don't be really, really nervous.

I just be, I just have like a lot of, I'd be anxious in a sense.

But I'm also like you too like i'll um

i the minute i get to the warm-up area and i start warming up i'm like okay let's do this like i'm ready now

yeah you're in your you're in your element

yes exactly in my element we're safe i'm looking at this relay now i don't know who's going to be on the relay i'm sure you and shakari because you guys made the finals

you're the fastest woman in the world i don't know if we've seen a situation where the fastest woman in the world run lead off

because you're such an outstanding starter.

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I don't know what you want to share because the relays are going to probably come after the 200.

So you'll probably have some other women that's going to, you know, qualify.

Have you guys decided on a race order?

Yeah, so

it's pretty, I would say it's pretty much set in stone.

I think what's going to end up happening is that um this is just as of today obviously uh i know that i will be leading it off and then um

my train basically i'll be on the it'll be my training partners on the um yep so me to tt to kayla white to shakari is the last i've heard of cool last i've heard of anything

we're about to get to go we're about to get the gold this is like unofficial okay so if something changes just say I, I, I, okay, that's what I'm saying.

Disclaimer.

So, think about that, Ocho.

We got the fastest woman in the world running lead off.

Hey, the stagger already caught.

I don't know who y'all got.

I don't know who.

Hey, we're probably going to get lane five, but six, seven, and eight,

nine.

Y'all need static chairs.

Y'all buy what you

need to do.

I'm switching them that order.

Because you're not finna make me look bad and walk this to have the stagger walk down on me.

Cause what's the head is caught, what's behind stage behind.

That's what Coach used to tell her, son.

What is the head is caught?

What's behind stage behind?

Because you already know she's gonna eat up that stagger because ain't nobody else got their best runners on the first leg.

Most people put their horses, they put them at the second or they put them at the third.

Occasionally, they'll sprinkle

the ankle leg, but you could be so far behind it doesn't matter unless you Usain.

But ain't nobody got no Usain.

We got Usain, and she's running first leg for the America.

Y'all

hey, hey, you need to hit him.

Hey, hit him with that piece out.

Hey, just get the baton around the track.

That's all you got to do.

We got the fastest four women.

Let me take that back.

We got the fastest six women.

You take anybody six women that's currently going to be in this relay.

We got the fastest six.

Get the sticks around the track.

That's all you got to do.

Yep.

That's all we got to do.

We got this.

We got this.

We got this.

We got it.

Cause we got it to a great start.

We won the gold in the woman's discus.

We won the Krauser, won the shot.

His first meet.

All year.

All year.

Three-time Olympic gold, three-time world champion.

He's only the second man to win three consecutive world championship.

Oh, we've been doing, hey, what the hell are we going to do?

We've done an Weller gold or something, didn't we?

Oh, we're going to win the gold.

We're going to get this gold in the 100-meter hurdle, too.

Cordell Tinch, I'm going on record.

Cordell Tinch is going to get the gold.

I'm going with Cordell.

I'm going with Cordell.

Yeah.

You're going with Cordell?

Okay.

Yeah.

Okay.

Okay.

Yeah, for sure.

He's been running great.

He's really been, he's the only one that's going on to 13.

I mean, a lot of guys, 13 flat, 1301, 1305, 1310.

Hey,

he can cover some ground.

So I'm going with Cordell.

Going with Cordell.

You know what I'm saying?

Cordell.

So when you win the goal and you go back to your room, could you rest?

Or were you just so excited?

Like you just looking at that goal, like, damn.

So what's crazy is after

we do media and then the other things, I waited.

We got back to the hotel room and then I actually had a chance to like meet up with my family and everything.

So my parents and I have aunts, uncles, and cousins out here too.

So I had a pretty good crowd of people to come all the way over here to support me.

So I spent some time with them and that was good.

And then by the time I think I got to bed, maybe around 3 a.m.

But I was actually proud of myself.

I slept for six hours and I feel like that's one really,

yeah, because last year after Paris, I slept for all of like three and then woke up the next morning and was on my phone just checking everything.

So so.

Who's DM'd you and said congratulations?

Is there any like celebs or other athletes or entertainers that's congratulated you?

Okay, so I have I have one I have to make sure I say his last name right, but his name is Daniel

I believe it's Daniel

Daniel LaBelle Daniel LaBelle so he um who is he he's really big on social media he posts like different videos and it's it'd be like little funny stuff.

It'd be like um

um I believe one time he raced against speed.

Okay.

Um, But yeah, I just like his videos.

It's like,

he has like

8.1 million followers.

And I saw he messaged me.

He was like, congratulations.

And I was like,

oh my God.

Thank you.

We got to get your followers up too.

We got to get you up into the three and four million.

Yeah.

Y'all do us a favor.

Go follow.

Give them your tag.

Give them your handle.

How can they find you on Twitter?

Okay, so on Twitter, my name is at Melissa, M-E-L-I-S-S-A,

Janae, J-A-N-A-E, 21.

Okay.

And then on Instagram,

oh yeah, on IG, it's at underscore underscore Melissa J19.

Wow.

Were you always fast, Melissa?

I mean, growing up in South Carolina, uh, could you, I mean, I don't know if you have siblings, but were you the, were you the fastest

girl in the neighborhood?

Were you the fastest?

Could you outrun the boys?

Some of them I could.

It was definitely like that.

But I was like always fast on the level that I was.

So I went to a smaller school.

My high school, I'm from the country.

So my high school was like, we went back and forth between 1A and 2A.

And in South Carolina, you know, that's like real small.

My graduating class was probably like,

my husband will laugh at me, but it's probably like 80 kids.

Yeah, well, I graduated with 60.

Okay.

So, yeah.

So about 80 kids in my graduating class.

And then Coastal Carolina, you know, obviously is a smaller D1 school.

The Shanti Claire is.

Yep.

Sean Sup.

And then

so that was like a smaller D1 school too.

So it's pretty much like I've lived the underdog life of just, you know, being fast at the level that I am and being in that area.

And then it wasn't until like 2022 where everything.

like one meeting just literally changed everything.

That's, because that's what I'm, that's what I was, that's what I wanted to ask you because you said I was fast for where I was it wasn't like when you go look at shakari she's at texas at at a big at a where they got 3 000 kids and she runs what she runs and she goes to in a freshman year she wins the mcaas or you see gabby thomas how she bursts on the scene or you see uh uh uh sydney mclaughlin that wasn't the case for you when did you realize you could be a pro or was that what that was that always your goal to be a professional tracking field runner I didn't, I didn't think that I could

be a, crazy enough, I knew that one day I would go to the Olympics.

I didn't know when, but I just knew that I could because of a coach that I had in high school, my freshman year, high school.

It was probably, I think it was my, that was my second year doing

high school track.

And then when I got to college and I had the coach there, that's when I was like, you know, I think I want to do, this is what I want to do for a living.

And I was, I got to college the fall of 2019.

So that's when it really just was like, okay, I know this is what I want to do.

I don't know how I'm going to get get there, but I'm going to just trust the people around me to help me get me to where I'm supposed to be.

So, and that's kind of how I went about it.

Yeah, but I'm looking, you know, when you choose to do something, it is just you, because track and feel is a really lonely,

it's you versus you.

It's you and your thoughts.

It's you and your training.

It's you and your nutrition.

So everything is dependent on you.

And ain't a whole lot of money in track and feel.

I mean, you can count it probably on like one hand, maybe a Usain that made a bunch of money or Simone Bowes or Michael Phelps, Michael Johnson, Carl Lewis.

It's not, you know, flush with money, especially for the women.

And so what, why, why, I mean, I mean, obviously you go to college, you're like, okay, I'm going to get a degree, but why track and feel?

You just had something deep down inside of you say, you know what?

I can make a living doing this.

Yeah.

And then I say it all the time, like, I just, like, this is, this is what I was, this is what I'm here to do.

Like, I'm here to to run I'm here yes this is my gift that I'm supposed to be sharing with the world and so the minute I got an understanding of that and realized like obviously the higher I go in the sport the more sacrifice I'm going to have to make the more I'm going to

be disciplined and like you say like um obviously there's nowhere near as much money in our sport than there is in like football or basketball but it's also just um

the resources that you do have, the money that you do have, being smart with that and

investing in yourself in order to make sure that you're becoming the best athlete that you could possibly be.

Like, I feel, and I feel like it was so easy for me because I grew up always not having the resources that everybody else had.

Never needed for anything.

I've always, I've always had what I needed.

But when it came to like, you know, sports or the schools that I went to and things like that, we never had

the same resources as the bigger schools.

So it was just like, okay, Melissa, control the things that are in your control.

And then the things that are out of your control, leave that to whoever it's supposed to be to.

And everything else will work itself out.

Melissa, I'm looking at you.

You're a thin, you're a thin young lady.

So obviously you had to get stronger.

You had to get, and I, and I know women don't want to hear this, but you'll know exactly what I'm talking about.

You had to get bigger.

You had to get stronger.

You were not strong enough to carry that.

that you needed to be able to propel yourself down the track.

So women, don't be up.

Shanna Sharp called a woman big, say she need to get bigger.

But you'll understand what I'm talking.

But you needed to grow.

You needed to fill that frame out.

And you're still a, you, you're still a thin, you're still a thin young lady, but

you're probably, what, 15 pounds heavier than what you were probably in high school, college?

If that.

If that.

So what's crazy is I think

weight wise, well, and I was because

you were in the bottom.

So, yeah.

I'm around the same way I was, but I'm definitely

more of the muscle mass that I'm supposed to have.

But I've definitely leaned out this year because I started working with the chef and everything and just like really paying attention to what I hear that everybody.

Wow, wow, oh cho.

She started working with a chef and now she's the work.

Wait a minute, wait a minute.

She said she's working with a chef.

She didn't say what she was eating.

She ain't eating bull jive.

You don't look like that eating bull jive.

McDonald's.

You like McDonald's too?

I love McDonald's.

But, but, sorry, Ocho.

I will say,

I have not been eating fast food.

The last time I had fast food was before my wedding in February.

And I said I wouldn't have any fast food until after

I do all the things I want to do.

That's okay.

That's okay.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, don't try to change it.

No, don't try to change all the senses.

You heard what she said, right?

Did you hear what she said

did you hear what she said she had she hasn't had it since february that's okay because she's preparing for tonight or yesterday for that matter it's okay no she's she she ain't gonna have no fast food until she gets back to the states but guess what she said you know what you see she said you know what ocho you know what i'm let me cut this fast food out and let me see just how great i can be that ain't got nothing to do with it because she listen on she was fast while she was eating it

so

she faster now that she's not eating it no you mad you mad because you

i bet

she just told you she hasn't had fast food since her wedding since that was she said february she's been fast all her life

she wasn't this fast

she wasn't this fast last year and the year before that before that no she wasn't

She ran 10-6 back to back eating McDonald's.

So what you saying?

Didn't she just tell you she hadn't had McDonald's McDonald's since February?

She ran those times in June.

She did.

In July.

Chicken McNuggets.

I saw it.

But

so now you shift your focus to the 200.

There has not been a whole lot of women to win the world championship in the 102.

Has that crossed your mind?

You start putting yourself in very, very elite company.

Oh, yeah.

No, the goal of this year is,

is, I won't say what's because it ain't done yet.

The goal of this year is to win everything.

Like,

I set up, yep, I set out that goal at the beginning of the year when I talked with my coaches and I said, well, you know, obviously at first, like for the 200, because I'm a very realistic person too.

And I've fought back and forth with me running the 200 for a long time.

But now I'm starting to embrace it.

So I'm like, okay, if you stop playing around, then you can actually win the whole thing.

So

it went from that to just telling my coaches, like, I want to be able to take the 200 more serious to know I'm not only going to be like a contender, like I want to be at the, at the forefront, you know, like I want to be able to say like I came away with a gold medal and the 200.

And I know that the only other woman to do so at a world championships is Shelly Ann Frazier Price.

Shelly Ann,

who happens to be the greatest.

She's the greatest sprinter.

She is a back-to-back 8 and 12.

She won the gold, the gold medal.

And then you got, and then she got five world championships in the 100.

And she won the 200.

So you're absolutely right.

That's why many labor her the greatest woman sprinter in the history of the sport.

And it's hard.

Look, it's hard to deny it.

I know Elaine has won back-to-back 100th and 200s.

Bless her heart.

But when you look at the totality and the longevity, she won a world championship in 135.

I was in that race, by the way,

at last.

I remember.

There.

Man, Melissa, we're happy.

Nightcap, the family is very happy, very pleased.

Congratulations.

Thank you.

Thank you for taking time out of your schedule to come on and talk to us.

But yay, this is not the end.

So what's next?

After the world championships is over, your season's over.

Now you go eat some McDonald's or you go get some oxtails or you go get some shrimp at two fair.

Oh, you from low country.

You down Georgetown near Charleston.

So you going, you going to eat some, some, some, some, ooh, rice, neck bones.

That's what I'm talking about.

That's not what I'm talking about.

And weights.

That's what I'm talking about.

She's down there them geeches.

She's down there in Georgetown.

She's wearing.

See, hey, Ocho, she'll tell you,

when they brought us, they got off the boat down there close to where she at.

Man, congratulations.

I know everybody in South Carolina is very proud of you.

We're proud.

We're extremely proud of what you've been able to do, but don't be satisfied.

Be greedy.

Oh, yeah.

Be greedy.

This is what I tell people.

They say, but man, they say, Shannon, if you cheat on the test, man, you don't want to get them all right.

I say, if I'm going to cheat, I'm getting 100.

You there now.

Don't be satisfied.

Well, I got one goal.

I'll happy if I win a silver, the brand.

No, no, no, no, no, no.

Double gold.

Do something that very few, and we don't know how.

Think about it.

In the history of the world championships, the world championship started in 1983.

I don't know if you know this.

In 1983, in Hell City, I know

only Shelly Ann has been able to back it up with the 100 and the two.

So you get an opportunity to do something that hadn't been in 40 years of world championships.

Whoo!

It'd be special.

Congratulations.

Thank you.

Listen, congratulations.

We're going to be pulling for you.

We're going to be watching.

Hey,

when you get that 200 gold,

come on back.

Okay.

Come on.

Come on back.

All right, we'll see you.

I'm going to listen to Jefferson Wooden, the Olympic, the World Championship 100-meter gold medalist.

Oh, wait.

Fourth, fastest time ever run.

Show us the medal.

Yeah, I was just about to say that.

You should have had the medal on the whole.

Oh, you got it in the box.

There you go.

There you go.

Oh, it's not.

Yeah, there we go.

There we go.

We can see it.

Back it up from the camera so it focuses.

Back it up a little bit, Melissa.

Okay.

Hold on, let Dick.

Let me just turn.

Right there, right there.

There you go.

There you go.

Nice.

nice.

Yep.

Got it last night.

Round of applause.

Melissa Jefferson Woods.

Congratulations.

Stay healthy.

Hey,

get all of them.

100, 200, 4x1.

They might need a leg.

They might need a leg on the 4x4, but I told them to hold off.

Please hold off.

If they want to win, they don't put me in there.

Not this year.

I need some time.

I need some time.

Well, congratulations.

Go enjoy the rest of the evening with your family, your husband.

Tell everybody at NICAP, we said hello, and we look forward to talking to you very, very soon.

Thank you.

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