Snoop Dogg doing sprints on the Team USA 2024 observe and discipline trials in Eugene, Oregon. PATRICK SMITH/GETTY IMAGES
Snoop Dogg got here inside seconds — technically, 15.25 of them — of breaking the world file within the 200-meter sprint after popping as much as run the race on the U.S. Olympic Team observe and discipline trials over the weekend in Eugen, Oregon.
Snoop had some stiff competitors within the extraordinarily unofficial trial race, operating alongside four-time Olympic medalist Ato Bolden (who gained bronze within the 200m on the 1996 and 2000 video games) and Wallace Spearmon (a 200m specialist with a number of medals from the observe and discipline World Championships). Of course, neither Bolden nor Spearmon has eight platinum albums, the world record for pouring up the biggest gin and juice in historical past, and — one has to think about — a few of the strongest, most powerful lungs in human historical past.
Ultimately, although, it was Spearmon who gained the race, with Bolden coming in second. But Snoop secured the clear ethical victory by quipping of his time, “34.44 for a 52-year-old? Ain’t bad.”
Snoop participated within the mock race in preparation for his duties as a guest commentator on the upcoming 2024 Olympics in Paris (beginning July 26). Snoop will present particular experiences for the Olympics primetime present on NBC and Peacock, attending numerous Olympic occasions, visiting landmarks round Paris, and talking with athletes, in addition to their pals and households. Snoop earned the gig after a particularly profitable stint offering bonus commentary on the 2021 Tokyo games alongside Kevin Hart.
Fittingly, after operating his personal race, Snoop picked up the mic to offer a little bit play-by-play motion for the steeplechase — a race that famously entails leaping over a hurdle right into a small pit of water.
From Rolling Stone US.