Welcome to the official blog of Chris Derrick; the 2007 Gatorade High School Cross Country Runner of the Year and 5k record holder! …
Welcome to the official blog of Chris Derrick; the 2007 Gatorade High School Cross Country Runner of the Year and 5k record holder! …
Welcome to the official blog of Chris Derrick; the 2007 Gatorade High School Cross Country Runner of the Year and 5k record holder! …
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Tyson Gay put together the best race the world has ever witnessed in 9.68. The wind-aided time (+4.1) still makes it the fastest a human has covered 100-meters.
Afterwards Gay said, “I just stayed relaxed and ran through the line because I […]
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Six more athletes made the Olympic team Sunday in the men’s and women’s 400-meter hurdle finals of the 2008 U.S. Olympic Trials.
In the women’s race, Tiffany Ross-Williams finished first with a time of 54.03 seconds. Virginia Tech star Queen Harrison, was second with 54.60, after she was the […]
Sanya Richards, America’s dominating 400m medal threat, continued on the road to Beijing by running the fastest time (51.08) in today’s women’s 400m quaterfinals. In addition to Richards, who easily won the third heat, Mary Wineberg, Natasha Hastings and Dee Dee Trotter all won their respective heats.
After the race, Richards remarked: “I was so […]
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Tyson Gay cruised to 9.85 in the semifinals and secured a spot in the final. After the race he said “I am a little tired, but I feel good.” It is evident that Walter Dix (9.93) is poised to compete […]
TV coverage: live on NBC from 7-8 p.m. (EDT)
Event finals on the third day of the US Olympic Trials are the first day of the decathlon, the women’s triple jump, discus and 400 hurdles, and the men’s pole vault, long jump, 400 hurdles and 100 meters.
The decathlon favorites are past Olympians Bryan Clay and Tom […]
I was going to write up a post explaining what makes a track fan (and a road running and cross country fan) but Bob Welch of the Eugene Register-Guard beat me to it and did a much better job than I ever could.
I would only add a couple of things. First, most fans have […]
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On a blazing hot day here, a pile-up about 250 meters into yesterday’s first heat of the women’s 800m semi-finals at these U.S. Olympic Trials sent four women tumbling to the track, splitting the field, and initially crushing some long-held Olympic […]
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After nearly missing the finals, Tyson Gay set a new American record of 9.77 in the men’s quarterfinal heat. Gay potentially could have set a new world record had he not slowed down the final meters.
In the race, Gay set the […]
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In a dramatic race Muna Lee (10.85) won gold at the U.S. Olympic Trials. Both Lauryn Williams and Torri Edwards ran 10.90 for second and third place respectively.
In a complete surprise Marshevett Hooker ran 10.93 and failed to make […]
Two of the nation’s top 800-meter runners, Nick Symmonds and Khadevis Robinson, each won their heat in the semifinal round of the U.S. Olympic Trials.
In the first heat, Robinson ran a 1:46.14, followed by Oregon’s Andrew Wheating (1:46.23) and Jonathan Johnson (1:46.28). Jebreh Harris was the last to qualify with 1:46.29).
Symmonds gave the crowd a […]
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