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Speaker 1 (00:00):
She is the person in charge. What do you call yourself?
The president, the executive director of the Omaha Sports Commission.
It's a big title. You're just lindsy to me, so
I don't have to think about it that much. How
are you like? You gave me thirty minutes today to
talk to you? How I mean you're busy as all
heck right now?
Speaker 2 (00:20):
I priorities here. We gotta get to the listeners. We
got to get to the OMA community. There you go.
We've got a lot on our plate, but we have
a stiller team. So I've ducked out for setting up
for event tomorrow and no better place to be.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Well, I appreciate you coming in the oscars is what
you're talking about? The big awards ceremony. We'll get to
that and talk about all the nominations and just how
cool of a night that is. We have to talk
about the exarvent tark. Yes, a couple of weekends ago.
I mean I was so pumped. I was pumped all
week because I love I'll just say it. I love
weird things. I love going to weird things. I love
(00:55):
to experience weird things, especially when it's got kind of
like that block party, tailed gate party kind of feel,
and based on how you are describing it to me,
that was kind of your plan. So let's go. Let's
let's flash back. Let's go back to before the event
even happening. You guys were setting up. What was the
expectation for the Omaha Sports Commission when you brought this
thing here? Yep.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
So the expectation is that we really connected with the
biking community locally. We got athletes who'd be coming in
from all over the US, maybe some international athletes as well,
and then the goal was that we would have a
stellar event, something new that people could get to see,
if maybe for the first time, participate if they really wanted.
(01:36):
And you know, ultimately, goals were kind of a bigger field,
i'll say, than what we got to know or we're
going to beforehand. A bigger field of athletes that'll come
in time, and then the Omaha community or surrounding communities
regionally to show up and really support the event.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Okay, So Ostin Lindsay Tuson round from Omaha Sports Commission.
So we get to the night before, you guys throw
a party for the athletes at Kincater over there down
in the Exurban Village and I pop down there. I
go down there regularly. It's in my neighborhood. I got
to talk to you there and he said, Yep, at
(02:15):
this time, at a certain time, you and your team
were moving barricades. We're closing the street. I got in
a little postcard in my mailbox saying these are the
streets that'll be closed at what time? And it got
me really excited. I was wondering like how it was
going to look when I got down there. I was
wondering how the community was going to respond. What was
the number you were hoping for?
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Yeah, so we were hoping for about three thousand spectators
to be there and kind of enjoy enjoy the show.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
And it was free to go to, free to go to.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Free to check out, family friendly, so we had activities
for the kids, you know, spectating. Of course, there's tons
of things to do in the exurban village, so a
little bit for everybody down there.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
How many people did you actually.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Get We are having numbers of around seventy five hundred,
and we know thanks to our partners that visit Omaha,
that we had almost twenty nine hundred out of town visitors.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
So you almost hit your spectator goal.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
With out of town visit.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
With just out of towners that came in to check
out the event. And you know, it was graduation season.
I know a lot of people are like, well, Baxter Arena,
that's a busy time to be over there. I'm not
sure this is going to work out so well. It
was popping from the beginning of the day. I mean
my wife and I we went down about mid afternoon
when the first races were kind of starting, and it
(03:32):
felt like there was a lot of excitement in the air.
You had quite a few in the open categories of
bikers cyclists that were racing in that but I didn't
know what it would look like. It's got a little
pace card that you know, Baxter Auto provided for you guys,
and they were zooming like.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
They lead, Yeah, they lead the pack.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Yeah, I mean he's doing around and I mean Dom
was his name, and he was such a cool guy.
Apparently he's from home y Yeah, really cool and.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Lias in San Antonio now, but grew up here, has
family here, and that's what he does, isn't that crazy.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Drives the pace car. So it's every lap for every race,
So you're You're talking a couple hours in a car
on a mile loop course, just repeating, repeating, repeating, But
he leads the race and kind of helps set the tempo,
clear the course and it is a wild time to
be down in an excarment if you're there for the event.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
It was so cool. So you mentioned we got to
the pros and we had a couple of professionals Caleb
Landgreb and Izzy Harden we're here and chatted with me
and that was a lot of fun to hear from
their perspective because they're both amongst the youngest competitors in
the professional ranks. You mentioned that you didn't get as
many of the athletes and there were a couple of
reasons why, right, So in plans, because the idea is
(04:47):
you want to bring this that, you want to make
this a thing, you want to bring this back, right, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
So a couple of reasons. Right, they're coming a lot
of these athletes are not from the Midwest, right, They're
coming from west coast, East coast, specifically southeast, and we
knew that. So as a first year event, people are
always a little hesitant and the crit calendar is quit
packed out in the spring so there's options for them
to go to and just getting them to come here.
(05:13):
I will say every athlete that came here had a
fantastic experience, and so we're super excited to see that grow.
The other thing is the local community and the regional community.
I think we're going to really see that take off.
They don't have a lot of opportunities in our region
to have KRIT racing, so to be able to instill
that here might provoke others to do it, and therefore
(05:36):
you build up the criterion world around us, which is
exactly what we want to do.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Yeah, and that makes sense because I was talking to
those guys and they said a lot of I mean
the East Coast is where almost all of their racing
takes place. This was kind of a blip on the
schedule if they wanted to fly to Omaha and be
a part of our race here. But they also say
when they go to a lot of and they pick
a couple of races during a week and it's not
(06:03):
just you know, one date. Is that something you kind
of are looking at when you're building out what this
could look like in the future.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Yeah, I mean kind of ten year goal rate down
the road. We want to have a full weekend, so
it is going to be a weekend of cycling, and
you get something Friday night, Saturday night. Of course, the
Saturday night is these are in Turk the big show,
and then Sunday morning and it can be turks, well
kits turks, or it could be you know, cycling, sprints.
There's a lot of different things that we can incorporate
(06:30):
and include to hit that demographic who's more of the
sprints or road cyclists. But how do we continue to
grow it in The options.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Almost are endless.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
We have a whole metropolitan to work with, We've got
a lot of different biking disciplines to work with. So
we're kind of excited to turn into a festival. You
can see it down in Tulsa where they do a
whole festival. They're in You're sixteen or seventeen at this point,
but give us a few years and we're going to
start looking a lot like them.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
That's so exciting. And like you said, all the athletes
that I saw seems to really enjoy it and have
a great time. I'm sure they're going to want to
come back because of the time. I mean, they talked
about just the amount of people.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
You know.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
I saw those two who were on my show walking
down the street going back to their hotel before to
get dressed before their race, and I asked them, you know, like,
what are you thinking. They're like, there are a lot
of people here already, and it was like four four thirty.
This is a few hours before even the professional women
started their race. And they said, this is more people
than we're used to seeing in the early races down here.
(07:30):
So that made me feel pretty good. And then I saw,
I mean, there are people all down the main street
in the Exarment village, just along where all the businesses are.
And I'm sure based on you know, my conversation, might
I just had you know, one or two conversations with
people who were running these businesses and restaurants and bars
during the day and they're like, man, that was a
huge day for us. So that's great for the community,
(07:51):
right because it's also feeding back into our local economy,
not just having fun for the people who were there,
but also for the businesses that are nearby.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Yeah, and that really, you know, this event really capitalized
on the tourism in the economic development that we strive
to do as a as an organization, So way to
go in Maha community. You really you really showed up
for it, and we're super.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Excited for your Yeah, the Exarvient Turk. That's going to
be on my calendar every years. Something not going to be.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Can you talk about your ride in the Pace car.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Yes, the Pace cars out in front and Tom, who
is a I made a video of me in the car.
I haven't posted yet because I'm like, I don't know,
kind of gives me motion sickness watching it back. I'm
not a great photographer guy, but it was a lot
of fun. You know, you got me in the car
for the start of the women's race, and I mean
he's like when some of the there's a like a
(08:37):
racer trying to break out and try to take a
lead and try to push the pace, he's got to
stay a certain distance in front of that that group,
so he'll gun it real quick, and I mean you
could feel the g's when he's ripping around those corners.
I almost just kind of wanted to see a car
race and the circuit you guys had with that U turn,
it was awesome.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
That would be that would be really interesting and fun
to see.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
But yeah, you know, getting to ride and that really
gives you the vibe in the feel of what is
going on, and that is a very technical course. It's
a very technical course also for that driver to stay ahead,
because those athletes have such a strategy that when they
need to break out, you you need to be prepared
for that. So Baxterato really hooked us up with a
perfect car to get around some of those tight corners
(09:17):
and getting to put a couple of you in there
just to get a vibe and feel for it. I want,
I just really want to hear what you were thinking,
what you were expecting, what I'm coming out of it.
I've written it at a different race, not that tight
of a loop. But yeah, I'll tell us what it
was like because not many people get to experience that. Well.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
It was a smaller car, right, so it was built
for like the handling, and it did have great acceleration.
So like when I mean he's got a walkie talkie
and somebody's like talking to him and saying, okay, somebody's
trying to break out, like pick it up a little bit.
I mean we're zero, Like he's not zero, but he's
like ten miles an hour, ten fifty miles an hour
and then all of a sudden, he like can get
to forty down a straight real quick to build some
(09:58):
distance between him and the group, to kind of clear
the space within like two seconds. It's crazy, and you know,
like you're back in the seat and you know, like
it was a pretty simple course in the way that
it was shaped, but the turns are all are a
little bit different, so like there are a couple of
turns that he liked to just like gut it and
you could feel like the back into the car just
kind of like but you can tell he's having fun
(10:20):
driving the car too. But it's a lot of fun,
a lot of fun. Zarbon Turk next year. I'm I'm
I'm flying the flag for it is. It's definitely a
premiere event, I think here in Omaha. With that being said,
there's a lot of stuff that you have that I
would consider premier events. And it starts tomorrow night with
the Oscars. For people who aren't familiar with what this
night is, it's a really special night for a lot
(10:41):
of people from high school age all the way up,
coaches and athletes alike, to kind of celebrate what they
have achieved.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Yeah, So the OSCARS is the OMAS Sports Commission Awards show.
It is our fundrais or event for the year. The
best part about it is we get to honor those
who live in our community in the sports accomplishment. So
outside of the awards that are given out, which those
are all sb Stow, which who you don't really know
is you know the nominies, but you don't know who's
winning the award until night of.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
But the other great part about it.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Is is the induction of our Hall of Famers, and
that is, you know, a high level achievement and we
are so excited to get to induct another class.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Yeah, our own Jim Rose is a part of that
committee and make sure that him and so many others
who follow Amaha sports the Omaha area, you know, pick worthy.
Cause I was at it last year. I'm unfortunately unable
to be there tomorrow night. But I mean, it's an
event that it's going to live for all those people forever.
And it's really such a cool thing that you guys
do to commemorate the history of sport here in Omaha.
(11:42):
How important is that not just to build for the future,
but also to recognize the past.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Absolutely, and that really comes with the Hall of Famers, right.
So this year we have Kyle Peterson, we have Rashia Bristol,
Junior Bryant fred Patito, and then the twenty fifteen un
O hockey team going into the Hall of Fame. And
those individuals really set the stage for everybody else coming
behind them, right, because they've seen what they've done throughout
their lives and their careers both on and off the field,
(12:08):
and that's how you make the Hall of Fame right.
And then for those in the awards portion, the great
part about that is is we've got a wide you know,
birth of sports here. So you've got the high schoolers,
you've got the collegiate athletes, and then you've got professional
So when you're a high schooler and you're nominated in
the same category as somebody from who's a professional athlete,
(12:31):
man does that feel cool? And so you know, everybody
comes dressed up, it's formal, it's higher. We make our
show in and out pretty quick, but we get to
the point and we have at a great visual show
as well as great individuals come into be nominees.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Yeah, Ellen Susaw Brown is with us here from the
Omaha Sports commission. What an awesome event, like I said,
and the production value is totally legit. I mean, this
is not just a homely little award show and you
get a tiny little trophy. This is something like you
get to see like a montage of what you've accomplished
if you're a nominee, and then you hope to win
the order and then you get to go up and
(13:07):
speak in front of the big crowd. It's really awesome.
USA Triathlon coming in a couple of weeks. How can
people watch? Is this something that people can spectate?
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Absolutely? Yeah, so there is.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
It's at Lake Cunningham, five days event where we'll have
about twelve different races going on. We see about fifteen
hundred unique athletes coming from all fifty states. And for
those who live here, it is it is quite the spectacle.
That's kind of all of our events right, always suspectacle
and something you don't always get to see in our
metropolitan area. So for the triathlon event, absolutely open to coming.
(13:41):
We because of the limited parking at Cunningham and because
we are using all of Lake Cunningham between the the
camping and some parking, and of course the trails. The
trails yeah, right, So to make your way there, we
do have shuttles that run to and from Northwest High School.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Northwest High School where you should park if you want
to go and check it out, and you get to
see the swimming, you to see the running, you get
to see the biking and all the stuff that is
happening in and around there. Again, it's just going to
be like the perfect kind of chaos of these races
and see these people doing something that is insane to me.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Right, some of those people will come and race five, six,
seven of the twelve races. That is so crazy and
it is it is wild, but it is It's a
national championship, right, it is. So it is great level racing.
And honestly you can sign up and race too if
you want to.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
So I see that on the details here at the
upcoming events. Omaha sports dot Org is the easiest way
to find out. And then of course we have USA
the US Open for Badminton coming at the end of June,
and of course we'll talk more about that when we
get closer. That athletes unlimited softball, you get talked to
a few of those athletes, they're going to be coming
here for a series in July. All sorts of amazing
things that are still coming throughout the year, and I'm
(14:53):
sure we'll be touching base, Lindsay. But you are awesome.
Your team is awesome. I saw you guys tearing down
at the Turk after the thing was up. Uh, so
real grassroots stuff. You're making Omaha so fun to live here,
and thank you so much for coming and sharing some
of this with us. We'll definitely have to chat in
the next couple of weeks.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Sounds great.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Thanks all right, Lindsay Tucson Brown, Omaha Sports dot Org,
Omaha Sports Commission making Omaha an amazing place to live,
and that is a fact. When we come back, we'll
at the four o'clock hour. We thank you for listening
to us as we roll along here on your Wednesday
on news Radio eleven ten KFAB
She is the person in charge. What do you call yourself?
The president, the executive director of the Omaha Sports Commission.
It's a big title. You're just lindsy to me, so
I don't have to think about it that much. How
are you like? You gave me thirty minutes today to
talk to you? How I mean you're busy as all
heck right now?
Speaker 2 (00:20):
I priorities here. We gotta get to the listeners. We
got to get to the OMA community. There you go.
We've got a lot on our plate, but we have
a stiller team. So I've ducked out for setting up
for event tomorrow and no better place to be.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Well, I appreciate you coming in the oscars is what
you're talking about? The big awards ceremony. We'll get to
that and talk about all the nominations and just how
cool of a night that is. We have to talk
about the exarvent tark. Yes, a couple of weekends ago.
I mean I was so pumped. I was pumped all
week because I love I'll just say it. I love
weird things. I love going to weird things. I love
(00:55):
to experience weird things, especially when it's got kind of
like that block party, tailed gate party kind of feel,
and based on how you are describing it to me,
that was kind of your plan. So let's go. Let's
let's flash back. Let's go back to before the event
even happening. You guys were setting up. What was the
expectation for the Omaha Sports Commission when you brought this
thing here? Yep.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
So the expectation is that we really connected with the
biking community locally. We got athletes who'd be coming in
from all over the US, maybe some international athletes as well,
and then the goal was that we would have a
stellar event, something new that people could get to see,
if maybe for the first time, participate if they really wanted.
(01:36):
And you know, ultimately, goals were kind of a bigger field,
i'll say, than what we got to know or we're
going to beforehand. A bigger field of athletes that'll come
in time, and then the Omaha community or surrounding communities
regionally to show up and really support the event.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Okay, So Ostin Lindsay Tuson round from Omaha Sports Commission.
So we get to the night before, you guys throw
a party for the athletes at Kincater over there down
in the Exurban Village and I pop down there. I
go down there regularly. It's in my neighborhood. I got
to talk to you there and he said, Yep, at
(02:15):
this time, at a certain time, you and your team
were moving barricades. We're closing the street. I got in
a little postcard in my mailbox saying these are the
streets that'll be closed at what time? And it got
me really excited. I was wondering like how it was
going to look when I got down there. I was
wondering how the community was going to respond. What was
the number you were hoping for?
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Yeah, so we were hoping for about three thousand spectators
to be there and kind of enjoy enjoy the show.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
And it was free to go to, free to go to.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Free to check out, family friendly, so we had activities
for the kids, you know, spectating. Of course, there's tons
of things to do in the exurban village, so a
little bit for everybody down there.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
How many people did you actually.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Get We are having numbers of around seventy five hundred,
and we know thanks to our partners that visit Omaha,
that we had almost twenty nine hundred out of town visitors.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
So you almost hit your spectator goal.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
With out of town visit.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
With just out of towners that came in to check
out the event. And you know, it was graduation season.
I know a lot of people are like, well, Baxter Arena,
that's a busy time to be over there. I'm not
sure this is going to work out so well. It
was popping from the beginning of the day. I mean
my wife and I we went down about mid afternoon
when the first races were kind of starting, and it
(03:32):
felt like there was a lot of excitement in the air.
You had quite a few in the open categories of
bikers cyclists that were racing in that but I didn't
know what it would look like. It's got a little
pace card that you know, Baxter Auto provided for you guys,
and they were zooming like.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
They lead, Yeah, they lead the pack.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Yeah, I mean he's doing around and I mean Dom
was his name, and he was such a cool guy.
Apparently he's from home y Yeah, really cool and.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Lias in San Antonio now, but grew up here, has
family here, and that's what he does, isn't that crazy.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Drives the pace car. So it's every lap for every race,
So you're You're talking a couple hours in a car
on a mile loop course, just repeating, repeating, repeating, But
he leads the race and kind of helps set the tempo,
clear the course and it is a wild time to
be down in an excarment if you're there for the event.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
It was so cool. So you mentioned we got to
the pros and we had a couple of professionals Caleb
Landgreb and Izzy Harden we're here and chatted with me
and that was a lot of fun to hear from
their perspective because they're both amongst the youngest competitors in
the professional ranks. You mentioned that you didn't get as
many of the athletes and there were a couple of
reasons why, right, So in plans, because the idea is
(04:47):
you want to bring this that, you want to make
this a thing, you want to bring this back, right, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
So a couple of reasons. Right, they're coming a lot
of these athletes are not from the Midwest, right, They're
coming from west coast, East coast, specifically southeast, and we
knew that. So as a first year event, people are
always a little hesitant and the crit calendar is quit
packed out in the spring so there's options for them
to go to and just getting them to come here.
(05:13):
I will say every athlete that came here had a
fantastic experience, and so we're super excited to see that grow.
The other thing is the local community and the regional community.
I think we're going to really see that take off.
They don't have a lot of opportunities in our region
to have KRIT racing, so to be able to instill
that here might provoke others to do it, and therefore
(05:36):
you build up the criterion world around us, which is
exactly what we want to do.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Yeah, and that makes sense because I was talking to
those guys and they said a lot of I mean
the East Coast is where almost all of their racing
takes place. This was kind of a blip on the
schedule if they wanted to fly to Omaha and be
a part of our race here. But they also say
when they go to a lot of and they pick
a couple of races during a week and it's not
(06:03):
just you know, one date. Is that something you kind
of are looking at when you're building out what this
could look like in the future.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Yeah, I mean kind of ten year goal rate down
the road. We want to have a full weekend, so
it is going to be a weekend of cycling, and
you get something Friday night, Saturday night. Of course, the
Saturday night is these are in Turk the big show,
and then Sunday morning and it can be turks, well
kits turks, or it could be you know, cycling, sprints.
There's a lot of different things that we can incorporate
(06:30):
and include to hit that demographic who's more of the
sprints or road cyclists. But how do we continue to
grow it in The options.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Almost are endless.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
We have a whole metropolitan to work with, We've got
a lot of different biking disciplines to work with. So
we're kind of excited to turn into a festival. You
can see it down in Tulsa where they do a
whole festival. They're in You're sixteen or seventeen at this point,
but give us a few years and we're going to
start looking a lot like them.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
That's so exciting. And like you said, all the athletes
that I saw seems to really enjoy it and have
a great time. I'm sure they're going to want to
come back because of the time. I mean, they talked
about just the amount of people.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
You know.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
I saw those two who were on my show walking
down the street going back to their hotel before to
get dressed before their race, and I asked them, you know, like,
what are you thinking. They're like, there are a lot
of people here already, and it was like four four thirty.
This is a few hours before even the professional women
started their race. And they said, this is more people
than we're used to seeing in the early races down here.
(07:30):
So that made me feel pretty good. And then I saw,
I mean, there are people all down the main street
in the Exarment village, just along where all the businesses are.
And I'm sure based on you know, my conversation, might
I just had you know, one or two conversations with
people who were running these businesses and restaurants and bars
during the day and they're like, man, that was a
huge day for us. So that's great for the community,
(07:51):
right because it's also feeding back into our local economy,
not just having fun for the people who were there,
but also for the businesses that are nearby.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Yeah, and that really, you know, this event really capitalized
on the tourism in the economic development that we strive
to do as a as an organization, So way to
go in Maha community. You really you really showed up
for it, and we're super.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Excited for your Yeah, the Exarvient Turk. That's going to
be on my calendar every years. Something not going to be.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Can you talk about your ride in the Pace car.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Yes, the Pace cars out in front and Tom, who
is a I made a video of me in the car.
I haven't posted yet because I'm like, I don't know,
kind of gives me motion sickness watching it back. I'm
not a great photographer guy, but it was a lot
of fun. You know, you got me in the car
for the start of the women's race, and I mean
he's like when some of the there's a like a
(08:37):
racer trying to break out and try to take a
lead and try to push the pace, he's got to
stay a certain distance in front of that that group,
so he'll gun it real quick, and I mean you
could feel the g's when he's ripping around those corners.
I almost just kind of wanted to see a car
race and the circuit you guys had with that U turn,
it was awesome.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
That would be that would be really interesting and fun
to see.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
But yeah, you know, getting to ride and that really
gives you the vibe in the feel of what is
going on, and that is a very technical course. It's
a very technical course also for that driver to stay ahead,
because those athletes have such a strategy that when they
need to break out, you you need to be prepared
for that. So Baxterato really hooked us up with a
perfect car to get around some of those tight corners
(09:17):
and getting to put a couple of you in there
just to get a vibe and feel for it. I want,
I just really want to hear what you were thinking,
what you were expecting, what I'm coming out of it.
I've written it at a different race, not that tight
of a loop. But yeah, I'll tell us what it
was like because not many people get to experience that. Well.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
It was a smaller car, right, so it was built
for like the handling, and it did have great acceleration.
So like when I mean he's got a walkie talkie
and somebody's like talking to him and saying, okay, somebody's
trying to break out, like pick it up a little bit.
I mean we're zero, Like he's not zero, but he's
like ten miles an hour, ten fifty miles an hour
and then all of a sudden, he like can get
to forty down a straight real quick to build some
(09:58):
distance between him and the group, to kind of clear
the space within like two seconds. It's crazy, and you know,
like you're back in the seat and you know, like
it was a pretty simple course in the way that
it was shaped, but the turns are all are a
little bit different, so like there are a couple of
turns that he liked to just like gut it and
you could feel like the back into the car just
kind of like but you can tell he's having fun
(10:20):
driving the car too. But it's a lot of fun,
a lot of fun. Zarbon Turk next year. I'm I'm
I'm flying the flag for it is. It's definitely a
premiere event, I think here in Omaha. With that being said,
there's a lot of stuff that you have that I
would consider premier events. And it starts tomorrow night with
the Oscars. For people who aren't familiar with what this
night is, it's a really special night for a lot
(10:41):
of people from high school age all the way up,
coaches and athletes alike, to kind of celebrate what they
have achieved.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Yeah, So the OSCARS is the OMAS Sports Commission Awards show.
It is our fundrais or event for the year. The
best part about it is we get to honor those
who live in our community in the sports accomplishment. So
outside of the awards that are given out, which those
are all sb Stow, which who you don't really know
is you know the nominies, but you don't know who's
winning the award until night of.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
But the other great part about it.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Is is the induction of our Hall of Famers, and
that is, you know, a high level achievement and we
are so excited to get to induct another class.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Yeah, our own Jim Rose is a part of that
committee and make sure that him and so many others
who follow Amaha sports the Omaha area, you know, pick worthy.
Cause I was at it last year. I'm unfortunately unable
to be there tomorrow night. But I mean, it's an
event that it's going to live for all those people forever.
And it's really such a cool thing that you guys
do to commemorate the history of sport here in Omaha.
(11:42):
How important is that not just to build for the future,
but also to recognize the past.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Absolutely, and that really comes with the Hall of Famers, right.
So this year we have Kyle Peterson, we have Rashia Bristol,
Junior Bryant fred Patito, and then the twenty fifteen un
O hockey team going into the Hall of Fame. And
those individuals really set the stage for everybody else coming
behind them, right, because they've seen what they've done throughout
their lives and their careers both on and off the field,
(12:08):
and that's how you make the Hall of Fame right.
And then for those in the awards portion, the great
part about that is is we've got a wide you know,
birth of sports here. So you've got the high schoolers,
you've got the collegiate athletes, and then you've got professional
So when you're a high schooler and you're nominated in
the same category as somebody from who's a professional athlete,
(12:31):
man does that feel cool? And so you know, everybody
comes dressed up, it's formal, it's higher. We make our
show in and out pretty quick, but we get to
the point and we have at a great visual show
as well as great individuals come into be nominees.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Yeah, Ellen Susaw Brown is with us here from the
Omaha Sports commission. What an awesome event, like I said,
and the production value is totally legit. I mean, this
is not just a homely little award show and you
get a tiny little trophy. This is something like you
get to see like a montage of what you've accomplished
if you're a nominee, and then you hope to win
the order and then you get to go up and
(13:07):
speak in front of the big crowd. It's really awesome.
USA Triathlon coming in a couple of weeks. How can
people watch? Is this something that people can spectate?
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Absolutely? Yeah, so there is.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
It's at Lake Cunningham, five days event where we'll have
about twelve different races going on. We see about fifteen
hundred unique athletes coming from all fifty states. And for
those who live here, it is it is quite the spectacle.
That's kind of all of our events right, always suspectacle
and something you don't always get to see in our
metropolitan area. So for the triathlon event, absolutely open to coming.
(13:41):
We because of the limited parking at Cunningham and because
we are using all of Lake Cunningham between the the
camping and some parking, and of course the trails. The
trails yeah, right, So to make your way there, we
do have shuttles that run to and from Northwest High School.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Northwest High School where you should park if you want
to go and check it out, and you get to
see the swimming, you to see the running, you get
to see the biking and all the stuff that is
happening in and around there. Again, it's just going to
be like the perfect kind of chaos of these races
and see these people doing something that is insane to me.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Right, some of those people will come and race five, six,
seven of the twelve races. That is so crazy and
it is it is wild, but it is It's a
national championship, right, it is. So it is great level racing.
And honestly you can sign up and race too if
you want to.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
So I see that on the details here at the
upcoming events. Omaha sports dot Org is the easiest way
to find out. And then of course we have USA
the US Open for Badminton coming at the end of June,
and of course we'll talk more about that when we
get closer. That athletes unlimited softball, you get talked to
a few of those athletes, they're going to be coming
here for a series in July. All sorts of amazing
things that are still coming throughout the year, and I'm
(14:53):
sure we'll be touching base, Lindsay. But you are awesome.
Your team is awesome. I saw you guys tearing down
at the Turk after the thing was up. Uh, so
real grassroots stuff. You're making Omaha so fun to live here,
and thank you so much for coming and sharing some
of this with us. We'll definitely have to chat in
the next couple of weeks.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Sounds great.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Thanks all right, Lindsay Tucson Brown, Omaha Sports dot Org,
Omaha Sports Commission making Omaha an amazing place to live,
and that is a fact. When we come back, we'll
at the four o'clock hour. We thank you for listening
to us as we roll along here on your Wednesday
on news Radio eleven ten KFAB
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