Bernard Lagat wins 5K in screaming kick. 24-year-old Eric Jenkins, who finished fourth in the 5,000 meters, won by the 41-year-old Lagat. And like any doting dad, he would do anything for them.
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He felt pretty good himself.
The Vista Murrieta High star will return home after the weekend, hopefully with much more success on his quest to be a part of the 2016 Olympic Summer Games in Rio, but will have to immediately pack his bags for Hollywood.
“I’m not sure yet”, Merritt said. “If you believe you are old, I am going to run like an old man”.
Locklear’s best bet is to make the team as an uneven bars specialist. That was huge for me.
“I wanted to get top two”. A blog said his “Prefontaine journey ends with the letters D-N-F”.
HURDLES WIN: Rollins stepped ever so slightly into an adjacent lane late in the 100-meter hurdles race but didn’t impede fourth-place finisher Queen Harrison, so there was no protest, and no change in the results.
“You develop a certain relationship with people”, he said. “I saw them there, gave me a hug”.
But later he added: “I’ve come to grips with it”. Lagat and Mead had both started the 10,000 but dropped out.
There was just something about this race that shook him awake.
“I was trying to hold off Lagat a little bit”, Mead said. I wasn’t surprised that a lot of athletes were in front of me; I knew that was going to happen.
Be ready, Justin Gatlin, they’ll be chasing you. The Crimson freshman ran a smooth race and qualified with a time of 22.72.
“So, the last 400 meters was exciting”, Lagat said. Chelima followed up Saturday reminding Lagat that “age is just a number”, which was cute and all but undersells the wonder of Lagat.
“I was feeling composed”.
“I was reading the newspapers and they were hardly mentioning me”, he told AFP.
“Tears are going to come”, she said. “I just kept running as hard as I could”.
The men’s 1,500-meter race will be the last event of the Olympic qualifying. “I was running blind the whole time”.
Hannah Carson finished second in the event with a throw of 190-11, but she doesn’t have the Olympic qualifying standard to make the team. (The 200m) is not really a serious thing for me. “He’s a great guy with a great attitude”.
“Bernard, let me interfere”, Chelimo said. “I was hoping I would be back by 2015 but I just didn’t have enough time”. “Today, you won, but next time, I’m taking over”. The best time in the world this year is below 13 minutes, so Lagat has some time to shave between now and Rio. And his kids will be there.
“I had three days between the 400 and the 200 (here), and at the Olympics it’ll be one day”, he said.
Taylor, the 2012 Olympic gold medalist, was second at 57-¾ and former Arizona State athlete Chris Benard third at 56-5¾.
Johnson bested that mark on four of his six jumps Saturday.
“Very emotional”, said Claye, who won silver in triple jump and bronze in long jump in London. Ameer Webb earned his Rio berth by coming in third at 20 second flat.
Maggie Malone made it two titles in two months after taking first in the women’s javelin final. The 2004 Olympic 100m champion later revealed he had been troubled by niggling injuries throughout the meet.
Norman, 18, who will attend USC in the fall, finished behind fellow high schooler, Noah Lyles of TC Williams in Virginia. Tyson Gay, the 2007 World 100 and 200 champion, was sixth at 20.38.
Accompanying Porter to Rio will be Oregon Ducks American Football wide receiver Devon Allen, who won in 13.03, and Ronnie Ash, who was given the same time as Porter.
Aries Merritt, the reigning Olympic champion and world record holder, finished his heat in third place in 13.64 seconds, but is confident he can improve as the competition progresses. 01 seconds behind Porter.
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Merritt, who received a kidney transplant in September, needed to finish in the top three to qualify for Rio.
