West Coast legend Snoop Dogg stepped on a brand new sort of monitor.
Snoop, 52, whose actual title is Calvin Broadus, ran towards four-time Olympic medalist Ato Boldon, 50, and two-time NCAA outside champion Wallace Spearmon Jr., 39, on Sunday on the Olympic Observe & Subject Trials in Eugene, Oregon, in response to a number of stories.
Sporting an American flag-inspired outfit with a high that displayed the face of the late Lakers star Kobe Bryant, the “Gin and Juice” rapper got here in third within the 200-meter race, at 34.44 seconds.
In the meantime, Spearmon positioned first and Boldon was second within the race, which Rolling Stone referred to as “extremely unofficial.”
“34.44 for a 52-year-old? Ain’t bad,” the rapper mentioned after the race, in response to NBC.
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For context, the boys’s Olympic file within the 200-meter sprint is nineteen.3 seconds, set by Usain Bolt in 2008.
As an NBC particular correspondent for the 2024 Summer season Olympics in Paris, Snoop additionally offered a laughable play-by-play on the boys’s 3,000-meter steeplechase on the trials on Sunday.
“What we’re about to see right now is they’re about to get to dipping, gripping, riding, slipping and hopefully not sliding,” Snoop mentioned.
“Jumping over this hurdle. Ah! In the water. Oh, get up outta there. They comin’ up behind him seven-, eight-deep, like horses. I love it.”
On Monday, Snoop posted images on X, previously Twitter, commending “all tha world class athletes.”
“See yall in Paris!!” he added.
