Snoop Dogg delivers mic drop moments at U.S. trials as 52-year-old runs 200m in 34.44 seconds

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(CNN) – Snoop Dogg is used to recording tracks, not racing on them. But that didn’t stop the legendary rapper from putting on quite the show at the U.S. Olympic athletics trials in Eugene, Oregon on Monday. Donning a tracksuit in the colors of the American flag and a Team USA shirt that paid respect to the late NBA Hall of Famer Kobe Bryant, Snoop Dogg laced up for a 200-meter exhibition race against Trinidadian former Olympic medalist Ato Boldon and two-time NCAA outdoor 200m champion Wallace Spearmon. Related Stories Snoop was unsurprisingly smoked by his competition in the exhibition race at Hayward Field, finishing a distant third, but he still posted a very respectable time of 34.44 seconds. “34.44 for a 52-year-old? Ain’t bad,” he said after the race before posing with his time. Snoop is heading to Paris as a special correspondent for NBC’s primetime Games coverage alongside Olympics host Mike Tirico and the rapper, who is also an actor and entrepreneur, then gave TV viewers his unique take on the trials. Snoop, was trackside for NBC’s coverage of the men’s 3000m steeplechase, told the broadcast: “What we’re about to see right now is they’re about to get...

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