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The race was a mock trial, with Snoop joining the run for fun. For the mock race, Snoop Dogg was up against four-time Olympic medalist Ato Bolden and 200 meter specialist Wallace Spearmon.
Decked out in a t-shirt featuring late NBA legend Kobe Bryant, Snoop placed third, clocking a timing of 34.44 seconds, while Bolden clocked in at 16.90. After the run, the rapper said while panting: “34.44 for a 52-year-old? Ain’t bad.”
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— Snoop Dogg (@SnoopDogg) June 23, 2024
Watch a clip of Snoop’s run below.
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Snoop Dogg had to check out his speed at Hayward Field during TrackFieldTrials24!
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Once he had recovered his breath, Snoop Dogg joined the commentary team to lend his voice to the steeplechase run broadcast: “Oh he’s jumping on top of the hurdle. You can do that?! That was a cold trick right there. I like that one. Went off the tippy-top.”
As for the 2024 Olympics, Snoop will be reporting for the games’ primetime show starting July 26 on NBC and Peacock. The rapper debuted as a correspondent alongside Kevin Hart during the 2021 Tokyo Olympics and went viral for his reaction to a horse he saw “crip-walking” during the Equestrian event.
“Oh the horse crip-walking, you see that? On the set! That’s gangster. This horse is off the chain, I gotta get this motherfucker in a video,” Snoop said in the 2021 viral video.
The rapper has since told Jimmy Fallon that he’ll be meeting the horse later this year: “I’m going to meet the horse in real life. He’s the returning champ. So I got to go meet him — you know what I’m saying? — and let him know I’m a big fan.”
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