Double the fun? Merritt moves on in quest for Olympic double

He won the Olympic gold in 2008, but pulled out of the first round in 2012 with a hamstring injury. Russian Federation has appealed a ban imposed after evidence of wide-ranging, state-sponsored doping.

This could be the first time The United States will have sent its youngest track and field team to the Summer Olympics in years.

The IAAF, the governing body of worldwide track and field, could opt to invite throwers who haven’t reached the standard based on their global standing in order to fill out an Olympic field of up to 32. In fact, it was impossible to ignore.

Finley, who had a series of 203-6, 208-1, foul, foul, 204-1 and 207-4, seemed to handle the adversity the best, though he wasn’t quite up to his PR of 218-11 set in qualifying the previous day.

Such a ceremony is normally is a happy occasion, but this was bittersweet. About two or three Olympic medals. Time and placement are required to make the Olympic team.

Bilonoh was stripped of the gold and Nelson was named the retroactive victor of the 2004 competition. So did the thousands of fans who cheered Nelson last week at Hayward Field.

Michael Rodgers (Berkeley, Lindenwood, Oklahoma Baptist) finished fifth in his semifinal heat of the 200, failing to advance to Saturday’s finals. “If we stay with that, we’re 100 per cent better than last time”.

Drouin was the only Canadian track and field athlete to stand on a podium in London. He won the 100-meter this past Sunday. Both men have served doping suspensions. “Luckily I’m able to compete against great athletes in football every single week. You just want to go out there and find a way to make it work for yourself and you always want to think you can find your rhythm and pop a big mark”.

Siegel said USATF is working with the U.S. Olympic Committee on contingency plans in case traffic does end up as snarled as some predict. Aretha Thurmond, a four-time Olympian who is now director of global teams for USATF, said staff will be on the ground a full two weeks before the Olympic track meet starts to make test runs to the stadium and map out every possible option for athletes.

Oiselle, the women’s apparel company that organized the T-shirt protest, sponsors distance runner Stephanie Bruce.

“It’s a long way to go still, we need to continue scraping off the cheaters, as we’re doing”, said Peter Eriksson, Athletics Canada’s head coach. “And you haven’t come forward?”

Also competing in one of Friday’s finals at Hayward Field was former Tiger SEC Champion and All-American Rodney Brown, who was the 10-place finisher in the men’s discus throw with a mark of 187 feet, 3 inches for his second throw of the qualifying round. Gatlin has been suspended twice for failing doping tests, once in 2001 and again in 2006. She was a former four-timeOlympian in the shot put and discus.

“I thought my last one was going to be a best for today”, said Johnson, who was hoping that attempt would better the standard. But right now I’m just in shock, ” Harper-Nelson said.

And Rowbury knows she wasn’t the same athlete or person at 23 as she was 30.

At age 40, he came out of retirement and attempted to make his fourth Olympic team.

“Surreal”, said Grace, who was ranked seventh nationally coming into trials but had a gold medal around her neck Monday night.