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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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Post by bbg95 on Jun 29, 2024 18:38:27 GMT -5
There are six finals tonight: men's discus and 200 and women's long jump, 200, shot put and 10K.
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Post by bbg95 on Jun 29, 2024 19:12:36 GMT -5
Kenneth Rooks repeats as national champion in the steeplechase. James Corrigan took third, so Ed Eyestone has to be thrilled back in Provo. None of the top three finishers have the Olympic standard, so they aren't officially in and will have to wait on world ranking points. It seems like Rooks is pretty safe to make the Olympics based on world ranking points. Corrigan likely won't make it unless he manages to run the Olympic standard of 8:15 or better in the next week. Track journalist Jonathan Gault reported that he talked to Ed Eyestone, who said they have a plan to try to get Corrigan the Olympic standard, and USATF said that if he gets the qualifying time, then he will be on the team. Corrigan's personal best is 8:21.22 according to his World Athletics page. So he'd need to shave more than six seconds off that to qualify. It will be interesting to see what happens. Either way, this has been a very good cycle for Eyestone. In addition to the steeplechase guys, former BYU distance runners Connor Mantz and Clayton Young (both national champions in college, with Young in the 10K at outdoors and Mantz a two-time cross country national champion) finished first and second at the marathon trials. Update: The Penn Relays added a steeplechase to its schedule, and Corrigan will take his shot at the standard there. Corrigan is headed to Paris. He just ran an 8:13.87 at the Penn Relays to get the Olympic standard of 8:15.00. |
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Post by bbg95 on Jun 29, 2024 19:32:51 GMT -5
Sha'Carri finishes a fairly distant fourth in the 200, so she'll be 100 only in Paris. Gabby Thomas, Brittany Brown and McKenzie Long made the team.
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Post by bbg95 on Jun 29, 2024 20:49:34 GMT -5
Tara Davis had a bit of a scare in the women's long jump, fouling on her first two attempts. But she had a clutch third jump to make the top eight and get three more jumps. She made the most of them, jumping seven meters even to win the trials and punch her ticket to Paris.
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