One woman did secure a double title in Eugene, Ore., but it wasn’t Allyson Felix.
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Bowie’s original long jump career ended in tears and a phone call at the 2014 world indoor championships in Poland, where she finished dead last.
Jenn Suhr, who will get to defend her Olympic gold medal in the pole vault, after winning Sunday.
“I want be like her when I grow up”, the 23-year-old Spencer said.
“It is disappointing, but when I look back, and see everything that happened I still think it is incredible”, said Felix. But that’s why McLaughlin appreciates Felix – those kinds of setbacks don’t get her down. After landing awkwardly on an exercise ball while doing core work, she rolled her right ankle. The athlete called it a “mental breakdown”, fearing that she didn’t belong.
But it was the lack of conditioning, not the ankle, that slowed her on Sunday. Felix won’t have the opportunity to defend her Olympic title in the 200-meter race in Rio de Janeiro after finishing.01 seconds behind third-place victor Jenna Prandini. Afterward, she was scraped-up but smiling.
“I don’t know what happened”, Prandini, who finished in 22.53 seconds, said in an AP report.
Four years after qualifying for the London Olympics, Conley finished third in the 5,000-meter final Sunday at the U.S. Olympic Team Track and Field Trials to clinch her spot on the American team that will travel to Rio de Janeiro next month for the 2016 Olympics.
“A relief, honestly”, she said.
McLaughlin’s time sets a world junior record, and betters the 54.46 she ran at the New Balance Nationals in June to break the 32-year-old record set by Leslie Maxie of Mills (Millbrae, Calif.) in 1984. Maybe people know a little more than I do, I don’t know. In third, but not without drama, was Brenda Martinez, who fell in final curve of the 800, perhaps her best event. She took gold in the women’s 200, 4×100 and 4×400 at the 2012 Olympics in London. I was running track, but it was like, meh?
Johnny Dutch was not as fortunate.
The athletics programme at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games runs from 12-21 August.
The six-time Olympic medalist is still hurting, but her eyes have remained dry. She’s hoping rest, treatment and adjusting her training plans with Coach Bobby Kersee will allow her to regain the smooth, sure power that has been the foundation of her success. She leaned, and then barreled over the finish line of the 1,500-meter final to take the third and final spot.
The Suhr-Isinbayeva matchup stands as one of the handful of truly compelling rivalries in track and field.
►The two best US milers/1,500 runners of the past few years made no mistakes in the 1,500 final, finishing 1-2 to earn their spots in Rio.
Asked what she loved most about Felix, McLaughlin said: “She wasn’t afraid to lose”. “Regardless of what happens in Rio, I made it here and I’m just so thankful for all of that”.
LaShawn Merritt, the fastest man of the year in the 200m and 400m, will run both events in Rio, along with the 4x400m. No wardrobe malfunction this time. She also was able to hold off fourth-place finisher Kori Carter. “I’m taking it year by year”. “I feel like I can appreciate my sport now and the people in it and I feel like I’ve grown a lot”.
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Centrowitz joins his father, Matt, as a two-time Olympian. Byron Robinson and Michael Tinsley also punched their tickets to Rio .
