Snoop Dogg Earns His Olympic Stripes With 200-Meter Sprint
The rapper popped up at Team USA’s track and field trials in preparation for his gig as a guest commentator at the 2024 Paris games
Snoop Dogg doing sprints at the Team USA 2024 track and field trials in Eugene, Oregon. PATRICK SMITH/GETTY IMAGES
Snoop Dogg came within seconds — technically, 15.25 of them — of breaking the world record in the 200-meter dash after popping up to run the race at the U.S. Olympic Team track and field trials over the weekend in Eugen, Oregon.
Snoop had some stiff competition in the extremely unofficial trial race, running alongside four-time Olympic medalist Ato Bolden (who won bronze in the 200m at the 1996 and 2000 games) and Wallace Spearmon (a 200m specialist with several medals from the track and field World Championships). Of course, neither Bolden nor Spearmon has eight platinum albums, the world record for pouring up the largest gin and juice in history, and — one has to imagine — some of the strongest, most powerful lungs in human history.
Ultimately, though, it was Spearmon who won the race, with Bolden coming in second. But Snoop secured the clear moral victory by quipping of his time, “34.44 for a 52-year-old? Ain’t bad.”
Snoop participated in the mock race in preparation for his duties as a guest commentator at the upcoming 2024 Olympics in Paris (starting July 26). Snoop will provide special reports for the Olympics primetime show on NBC and Peacock, attending various Olympic events, visiting landmarks around Paris, and speaking with athletes, as well as their friends and families. Snoop earned the gig after an extremely successful stint providing bonus commentary on the 2021 Tokyo games alongside Kevin Hart.
Fittingly, after running his own race, Snoop picked up the mic to provide a little play-by-play action for the steeplechase — a race that famously involves jumping over a hurdle into a small pit of water.
From Rolling Stone US.
