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Last Chance: AMC High Performace Track and Field Series
Posted June 13th, 2008 at 1:00 PM by Stephanie Lowe
Section: News & Results, Track & Field, Olympics
Four years of preparation boil down to one weekend for athletes on the verge of making the 2008 U.S. Olympic Trials in Eugene. This Sunday, June 15, is the last day to qualify.
A highly competitive last chance meet takes place Saturday night at the IUPUI track in Indianapolis. It is the final meet of the 2008 American Milers Club High Performance Track and Field Series created by Indiana Invaders coach Greg Harger. The series began May 31 and continued June 9 and 11. The AMC meet on June 14 features 800-meter, 1500-meter and 3000-meter steeplechase races.
The rabbitted races are run with on the Mondo track after 9:30 p.m. when weather conditions are calm. The goal of the AMC meet is to provide an ideal environment for running fast times since most of the athletes want to hit Olympic Trials standard times.
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USATF To Combine Offices with Other Olympic Sports
Posted April 3rd, 2008 at 10:15 AM by David Monti
Section: News & Results
The yet-to-be-selected CEO to replace Craig Masback at USA Track & Field will be treated to new office space as the U.S. governing body for athletics will be moving out of their offices at the RCA Dome in Indianapolis in advance of its demolition this summer. Moreover, USATF will share space with the U.S. Olympic governing bodies for diving, gymnastics, and synchronized swimming which are also based in Indianapolis. The four organizations will share 32,000 square feet of space at 132 East Washington Street.
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New marathon in Indianapolis has military emphasis
Posted July 17th, 2007 at 8:37 AM by Hariz Siddiqui
Section: News & Results, Marathons
The Indy Classic Marathon, Half-Marathon and 5-K debuts on Saturday, September 8, and the event will have a decidedly military emphasis. Organizers announced that the inaugural race “is dedicated to all active and reserve military personnel and to fallen military personnel who have lost their lives defending our country since September 11, 2001, and their families.”
The course through downtown Indianapolis and outlying areas will take in the Soldiers & Sailors Monument on the Circle, the scenic over hanging trees along Meridian Street, and the prestigious American Legion Mall bordered by the World War Memorial at the finish line.
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USATF: 2007 AT&T USA Outdoor Champs mark phenomenal successes
Posted July 6th, 2007 at 3:20 PM by Jeanie Rebb
Section: News & Results, Track & Field
The 2007 AT&T USA Outdoor Track& Field Championships last month in Indianapolis were among the most successful in recent history.
The excitement of close finishes in the middle-distances, a packed house that provided loud encouragement to the athletes, and the fastest 100-200 double in history by Tyson Gay tell a compelling story. Television ratings, Website traffic and merchandise sales all saw significant rises over 2006. These were just a few of countless highlights.
In hard numbers, the meet measures up impressively:
0 - Number of stadium evacuations due to weather.
1 - The number of American records set (Breaux Greer, men’s javelin, 91.29m/299-6).
2 - Number of Visa Champions crowned (Tyson Gay and Tiffany Williams)
4 - Number of national television broadcasts of the meet (2 on NBC, 2 on ESPN2). NBC’s live coverage from 1-3 p.m. on Sunday, June 24, won its time slot and was the #2 sports program of the day on network television. In aggregate, TV ratings for the meet saw a 144 percent increase over 2006.
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Interview with Coach Terrence Mahon
Posted July 2nd, 2007 at 1:30 PM by Bob Ramsak
Section: News & Results
Team Running USA coach Terrence Mahon gave an extended interview to Charlie Mahler at the AT&T USA Outdoor Championships in Indianapolis last month which you may interest you.
Mahon, a former athlete, coaches Deena Kastor, Ryan Hall, Kate O’Neill, Jen Rhines (his wife) and Ian Dobson, amongst others. Here’s an excerpt:
Mahler: You seem to have a real steadiness about yourself. Hearing you talk about people’s success in context for where they’re at. Is that part of it?
Mahon: It’s a huge part! It’s the job of the athlete to think they can shoot for the moon. Right? And you don’t want an athlete that doesn’t think they can shoot for the moon, because if you’ve got to instill that in them, then they’re not where they need to be.
The full text of the interview is here: http://www.runningusa.org/media/wire2007/Wire2007-51.html#story1″RunningUSA.org
Fast times take Webb, Robinson & Johnson to
U.S. Outdoor T&F Titles
Posted June 24th, 2007 at 7:00 PM by David Monti
Section: News & Results, Track & Field
The air was warm and definitely sticky, but that didn’t prevent Alysia Johnson, Khadevis Robinson and Alan Webb from posting fast times as they each won their respective events on the final day of the AT&T USA Outdoor Track & Field Championships at the Michael A. Carroll Stadium at Indiana University-Purdue University.
Johnson, the University of California star who won the NCAA 800m title on June 9, needed to run nearly the same fast time here to beat back the challenges of Hazel Clark, three-time USA 800m champion, and Alice Schmidt, the 2006 USA indoor champion.
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AT&T USA Outdoor T&F Champs: Webb edges Lagat; breaks Scott’s meet record
Posted June 24th, 2007 at 6:09 PM by Adam Jacobs
Section: News & Results, Track & Field
Alan Webb has long spoke about wanting to break Steve Scott’s records, and he got one of them Sunday in a thrilling Nike men’s 1,500m. Webb ran in the style that suits him best, taking the lead and pushing the pace. Webb towed the pack through quick splits of 57.56 for 400m and 1:56.23 for 800, when defending champion Bernard Lagat took the lead.
Webb and company stayed right with Lagat, however, with Said Ahmed, Chris Lukezic and Leonel Manzano also tailing the leader. Lagat passed 1,200 in 2:53.8 as the race continued to escalate. Coming off the final curve, Lagat, Webb, Lukezic and Manzano all were in the running, and it came down to a final sprint.
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AT&T USA Outdoor T&F Champs: Trammell wins long-awaited 110 hurdles title
Posted June 24th, 2007 at 5:45 PM by Jamal Walker
Section: News & Results, Track & Field
Among the most decorated American hurdlers in history, with two Olympic silver medals and a pair of World Championships silvers as well, Terrence Trammell won his first career U.S. crown in the 110m hurdles in 13.08 (+0.5), leading from start to finish.
American record holder Dominique Arnold was second in 13.17, with David Oliver third in 13.18.
Official Results:
1 Terrence Trammell Mizuno 13.08 0.5
2 Dominique Arnold Nike 13.17 0.5
3 David Oliver Nike 13.18 0.5
4 David Payne unattached 13.22 0.5
5 Anwar Moore Nike 13.23 0.5
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AT&T USA Outdoor T&F Champs: Gay makes more history in AT&T men’s 200m
Posted June 24th, 2007 at 5:13 PM by Adam Jacobs
Section: News & Results, Track & Field
Undeterred by a soggy track and slight headwind, Tyson Gay cemented his status as the world’s dominant sprinter by winning the AT&T men’s 200 meters in the second-fastest time in history Sunday at AT&T USA Outdoor Track & Field Championships. In addition to two national titles, Gay came away from the meet with the men’s Visa Championship as the top male performer of the Visa Championship Series, while Tiffany Williams was women’s Visa Champion.
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AT&T USA Outdoor T&F Champs: Felix flies in Visa women’s 200
Posted June 24th, 2007 at 5:00 PM by Martha Jones
Section: News & Results, Track & Field
Overcoming a slow start, world champion Allyson Felix showed her gold-medal form in the Visa women’s 200 meters. Running in lane 4, Felix lagged behind Sanya Richards in lane 5 as Richards came back from her fourth-place finish in Saturday’s AT&T women’s 400.
In Sunday’s 200, Felix came up on Richards’ left shoulder, then went on to win in 22.34 seconds (+0.4 mps) with Richards second in 22.43. USA 100m champion Torri Edwards was third in 22.55, with 2004 Olympian LaShauntea Moore fourth in 22.58. With Felix enjoying a bye into the World Championships as defending champion, Moore will join the U.S. delegation.
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