Julien Alfred Press Conference After Winning Gold in Women 100m

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00:00You may have a seat.

00:01If you have a question for Julian, you may raise your hand.

00:03We'll bring a microphone over to you, and I'll point to you so you can ask.

00:06If you could just state your name and your outlet.

00:08You can sit right there.

00:09Yeah.

00:10If you could just state your name and your outlet before you ask the question, that'd

00:12be great.

00:13All right.

00:14Let's start right here in the front row.

00:15We're bringing a microphone to you so they can hear you on the stream.

00:19We are streaming live, by the way, and if you have a question watching live, you can

00:22use the Ask OIS function on MyInfo.

00:26Tyler Dragon, USA Today.

00:28Julian, just describe the emotion when you crossed the finish line and saw you jumping

00:32up in the air and really excited.

00:34How does it feel to be an Olympic champion?

00:36It feels amazing, to be honest.

00:40I think that after waking up this morning, I wrote it down, Julian Alford, Olympic champion.

00:47I think just believing in myself and trusting that I could do it is what really mattered

00:51to me.

00:58Jonathan Gould, LetsRun.com.

00:59Julian, congratulations.

01:00Thank you.

01:01I'm wondering, there was rain on the track and it was raining a little bit during the

01:05warmups as well.

01:06How did that affect you if it did have any effect on you in the race or in your preparations,

01:12anything like that?

01:14You know what?

01:16Coach Flo sometimes happens straight in the rain.

01:18You've got to be prepared for anything at all.

01:21It didn't have any effect on me whatsoever.

01:25Hi, Rachel Bachman for the Wall Street Journal.

01:37My understanding is this is St. Louis's first Olympic medal in anything.

01:41Did you know about that and what does it mean to you to be the first in your country to

01:46do this?

01:47It means a lot to me.

01:48I did it indoors as well.

01:52So I definitely knew that St. Louisians would be watching and hoping that they could get

01:57their first Olympic gold, well, Olympic medal and it came as a goal.

02:01So I'm sure they're celebrating right now.

02:04Simon Drouin, La Presse.

02:10On your right, you mentioned a lot about your coach Flo.

02:16Since your win, how pivotal has he been in your gold medal today?

02:21Can you describe a little bit your relationship with him?

02:25So I met Coach Flo in 2019.

02:27He recruited me to come to the University of Texas, Austin.

02:31Earlier on this year, especially after the win indoors, I was just so hard on myself

02:36and feeling so much pressure, feeling like I have to go out there and represent my country

02:41again.

02:42Just seeing the amount of people that supported me.

02:44But he helped me turn that pressure into motivation and he's been my rock.

02:49He's been there with me through the ups and the downs, through the hard times.

02:54I'm just happy.

02:55He never gave up on me.

02:57And he's like a dad to me, a mentor to me.

02:59I'm just really happy.

03:01He believed in me and this is why I'm here right now today, sitting in front of you guys.

03:08Julian Longman, New York Times.

03:11Did you say you wrote down this morning, Julian Alfred, Olympic champion, and where were you?

03:19So I did at five in the morning.

03:21I usually wake up so early on race days to just journal, to write down something.

03:27And also I took a snap in the elevator after breakfast and just said, Julian Alfred, Olympic

03:33champion.

03:34Oh, you said it.

03:36You didn't write it down.

03:37Pardon me?

03:38You said it, but did not write it down or did both?

03:40I did both actually.

03:41I took a picture on Snapchat and I also wrote it down in my book.

03:46Thank you.

03:48Hi, Amy Tannery from Reuters.

03:53There were reports that Sha'Carri Richardson, Shellyann Fraser-Price were not able to get

03:58through their usual gate.

04:00I'm wondering if you know anything about that, if you talked to either of them before the

04:04semi-final and what they had to say.

04:07I didn't speak to anybody, to be honest.

04:09I did just focus on just myself and my race plan and just trusting what my coach told

04:13me to do.

04:14Hi, it's Eddie Pelz from AP.

04:27Just kind of a racing question.

04:29You raced next to Sha'Carri in the semi-final and you beat her.

04:33Does that do anything to set you up for the final as far as building confidence or sending

04:39a message, anything like that?

04:41I don't think it's about sending a message.

04:43This year, I've really been trying to focus on just my lane and just working on my execution

04:48only and not thinking about who's next to me.

04:50Sometimes when I do, I tend to panic, but I think so far this year, I've just had such

04:56a good strategy and just focusing on my execution only and nobody next to me.

05:00So I think that has worked in my favor.

05:03Hi, Welton Johnson, Let's Run.com.

05:12Last year, worlds didn't go as you wanted, fifth place.

05:15What did you do differently this year?

05:16Well, I didn't have the long collegiate season.

05:19I think I ran over 50 races last year, but I think not having trials and my coach really

05:26just being particular in how I race this year has been a huge advantage for me.

05:33But I think the main difference is just how much I race this year and we're really preparing

05:38for the Olympics this year instead of, well, last year it was really about NCAAs and whatever

05:44is left for world championship.

05:45But I think this year, the main goal was the Olympics.

05:49Hi there, I'm Josh Noble from the Financial Times.

05:54I'm just wondering, you wrote down this morning, Olympic champion.

05:58Have you thought about how your life might change when you wake up tomorrow?

06:02No.

06:04I'm still trying to think of what just happened.

06:09It hasn't sunk in yet.

06:12Slowly but surely it is.

06:14I'm not sure what tomorrow may look like.

06:16I don't have to run the 200.

06:17That's what I'm thinking about right now.

06:20I'm getting to bed.

06:20I'm just trying to rest.

06:21But I haven't thought about it as yet.

06:25Since she has to run the 200, we're going to do two more questions and then let her go get some rest.

06:34Lindsay Schnell, USA Today.

06:35Congratulations, Julian.

06:37Usually in these scenarios, the silver and bronze medalists are also up there with you.

06:42So I wondered, is this strange for you right now that you're by yourself?

06:46Do you feel lonely?

06:48Do you wish they were here too?

06:50It's my first time here, so I don't know what to expect.

06:53So I'm just happy to be up there as an Olympic champion.

06:57I'm just hoping to see what tomorrow holds for me.

07:00That's all I care about right now.

07:04Last question.

07:04Let's go all the way in the back there.

07:10Hi, Julian.

07:11Nick McCarvel from olympics.com.

07:13You mentioned St. Lucia, obviously, in the history that you made.

07:16But what can you tell us about your tiny island nation?

07:19I think 180,000 people live there.

07:22So what pride do you have being from such a small place?

07:26You know, I feel honored to just be an ambassador for my country.

07:31Not many persons know about St. Lucia.

07:33Sometimes I can be on an Uber, and they ask me where I'm from,

07:36just hear my accent, and they'll be like, where's St. Lucia?

07:39And I think now, being an Olympic champion,

07:41I'm sure people is going to be searching for St. Lucia now.

07:44And I just feel so honored to just wear, you know,

07:47my country's name across my chest and just be an ambassador for them.

07:50And I'm sure they're celebrating right now.

07:53I'm just looking forward to the celebration when I go home with them.

07:57All right, Julian Alford is the gold medalist in the women's 100.

08:00Thank you, Julian, and good luck tomorrow on the 200.

08:02Thank you so much.

08:03Thanks for having me.

08:05Thank you.

08:07In just a few minutes, we will bring on the gold medal winning

08:10four by 400 mixed relay team from the Netherlands.

08:13We just need to reset the stream and we'll bring them on.

08:16And then we will do the shot put.

08:20And we can end this stream.

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