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Post by bbg95 on Jun 25, 2024 19:38:00 GMT -5
Noah Lyles wins in 9.83. Kenny Bednarek and Fred Kerley are also going to Paris. Christian Coleman is out. It isn't nearly the same but sprinters like Coleman will still be in the Olympics on the 4x100 relay. Unlike other track events, the sprinters have a shot of being in the Olympics if they don't finish in the top 3. Yeah, that's true. Of course, the Americans are just as likely to get DQ'd in a relay as they are to medal.
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Post by passserve on Jun 25, 2024 19:50:20 GMT -5
That is a good point.
Lyles has been trying to put himself on the 4 x 400 team. It would be pretty interesting to see if Lyles is able to win the 100, 200, and the 4 x 100 team does well if Lyles and 16 year old Quincy Wilson are in one of the rounds of the 4 x 400.
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Post by bbg95 on Jun 25, 2024 19:58:00 GMT -5
Valby had one of the top all time distance runner seasons in the NCAAs. She set many records and won 5 individual NCAA titles and executed the right plan for her to make the US Olympic Team by setting a tough pace - even thought she ended up 4th. Way too often these races become tactical and some of the runners with the fastest times don't make a team. She went for it and did all she could to make the team but three women who have been running professionally for years were just faster at this point. But Valby still has a chance in the 10,000 and one of the women who beat her in the 5000 may focus on the 1500 and drop out of the 5000 if she makes the team in the 1500. Valby set up an exciting race and Cranny and St Pierre battled that last 100 and set a new trials 5000 record. I think Valby had the best NCAA distance running season ever for women (and maybe for men too). I mean, she won cross country nationals and then pulled off the 3K/5K double indoors and the 5K/10K double outdoors. Unless someone wins six (probably DMR or 1500), that may the standard for a long time.
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Post by manyshaped on Jun 26, 2024 19:57:54 GMT -5
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Post by akbar on Jun 26, 2024 19:59:10 GMT -5
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Post by geddyleeridesagain on Jun 26, 2024 20:14:00 GMT -5
Torn achilles. Those are just the worst.
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Post by alhorford90 on Jun 26, 2024 20:15:47 GMT -5
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Post by bbg95 on Jun 27, 2024 1:02:40 GMT -5
What a shame. Thompson-Herah has the fastest non-Flo-Jo time ever. And even putting aside Flo-Jo's rather obvious PED use, her world record was almost certainly wind-aided (like not even close to being legal). So Thompson-Herah's 10.54 is the true world record in my book. I hope she recovers.
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Post by bbg95 on Jun 27, 2024 16:50:59 GMT -5
The trials resume this evening, though there are only two finals, women's discus and women's steeplechase.
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Post by bbg95 on Jun 27, 2024 21:43:28 GMT -5
Val Constien sets a meet record at 9:03.22. Courtney Wayment makes the team after finishing fourth in the Tokyo trials. So current or former BYU athletes will make up one third to one half (depends if James Corrigan can get the standard on Saturday) of the steeplechase teams in Paris.
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Post by azvb on Jun 27, 2024 21:53:21 GMT -5
Noah Lyles is so annoying. And very fast.
So happy for Courtney Wayment.
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