2020 US Olympic Track & Field Trials

Day 4 Tokyo Track Podcast Recap and Video Show: Sifan Hassan Gets Gold #1, Kenyan Steeple Streak Ends, DSD Comes to 200

Video show  and podcast recapping all the track action from Day 4 at the Tokyo Olympics. Sifan Hassan fell in the women's 1500 in the morning, yet still advanced, and got gold #1 in the evening with ease.  The last time the Kenyans lost in the steeple at the Olympics man had not walked on the moon, and DSD women are making waves in the 200.
August 2, 2021

Day 10 Recap: 17-Year-Old Erriyon Knighton Makes Olympic Team in 200, JuVaughn Harrison Completes HJ-LJ Double

HS junior Knighton broke the world U20 record again (19.84) as Noah Lyles won the 200 in 19.74. Harrison PR'd in the long jump (8.47 meters) after clearing 2.33m to win the high jump.
June 28, 2021

DUCK, DUCK, GOOSE: Cole Hocker Takes Down Matthew Centrowitz to Win Men's 1500 as Yared Nuguse Grabs 3rd

20-year-old Cole Hocker is a full-blown superstar now after defeating the Olympic champ as Oregon Ducks went 1-2. 2019 NCAA champ Nuguse won the battle for third over Craig Engels.
June 28, 2021

Athing of Beauty: Mu Runs #2 Time in U.S. History to Win Women’s 800 by Daylight

Mu's magical 2021 continued as she ran a Trials record and US #2 time of 1:56.07 thanks to an incredible 28.49 final 200. Behind her, Raevyn Rogers and Ajee Wilson came from way back to grab their tickets to Tokyo in a super competitive race where 5 of the top 6 ran lifetime bests.
June 28, 2021

Sydney McLaughlin Runs 51.90 at 2020 US Olympic Trials to Break 400-Meter Hurdles World Record

McLaughlin took down the world record holder and Olympic champ Dalilah Muhammad to become the first woman ever under 52 seconds.
June 27, 2021

Paul Chelimo Uses Tokyo Drift to Win Olympic Trials 5,000m Title

Paul Chelimo showed he is back as Grant Fisher and Woody Kincaid made their second Olympic team and all 3 finished in lane 4.
June 27, 2021

Day 9 Recap: Gabby Thomas (21.61) Moves to #2 on All-Time List to Win 200, Erriyon Knighton Runs 19.88 World U20 Record, DeAnna Price 80.31m Hammer American Record

The track was hot in Eugene on Saturday (99 degrees), and so were the performances in the track and the field.
June 26, 2021

Deena Kastor Talks Emily Sisson, Shelby Houlihan + Sprint Madnesss - Olympic Trials Track Talk Saturday

June 26, 2021

Rai Benjamin Rips 46.83 (#2 All-Time) to Win 400m Hurdles at 2020 US Olympic Trials

Barely half an hour after Grant Holloway ran 12.81 to become the second-fastest 110m hurdler in history, Rai Benjamin decided to match Holloway’s feat, clocking 46.83 in the 400m hurdles, the #2 time ever behind only Kevin Young’s 46.78 world record
June 26, 2021

Grant Holloway Runs 12.81, 2nd Fastest Ever in 110m Hurdles

Grant Holloway ran 12.81 just missing the world record in the semis of the Olympic Track and Field Trials. Full video of race.
June 26, 2021

Emily Sisson Secures First US Title & Olympic Berth with a 10K Masterpiece

Emily Sisson showed she was a level above everyone else as she won her first USA track title and made her first Olympic team, joined by Karissa Schweizer and Alicia Monson.
June 26, 2021

Olympic Track Trials Day 8: Kessler Out, Hocker, Centro Dream Match-up Set, Dream 800 Final Set, Bor Wins Steeple, Keter, Ferlic Olympians

June 26, 2021

Rest of Day 8: Gabby Thomas Runs (Another) World Leader, Sydney McLaughlin and Rai Benjamin Advance

Thomas ran 21.94, which improved on her 21.98 from Thursday. McLaughlin and Benjamin both cruised in their 400 hurdles heats.
June 25, 2021

Men’s 1500 Semifinals: The Epic Final Everyone Wanted Is All Set (Minus Hobbs Kessler)

Nuguse, Hocker, Centro and Engels all looked fantastic. Who will go home devastated on Sunday?
June 25, 2021

Men's Steeple: Hillary Bor & Benard Keter Deliver ADP 1-2; Mason Ferlic Rounds Out Team USA

This time it wasn't a Bowerman 1-2 but a 1-2 for Scott Simmons' American Distance Project as Bor won his second straight US title.
June 25, 2021

Women’s 800: The Epic Final Everyone Wanted Is All Set

Athing Mu (2021 US leader at 400 and 800) vs Ajee Wilson (best US 800 m runner of the last decade) vs Raevyn Rogers (2019 Worlds Silver Medallist) vs Kate Grace (2016 Olympic finalist) and something has to give. It should be fantastic.
June 25, 2021

Erriyon Knighton Runs 20.04 in First Round of US Olympic Trials to Break High School 200m Record

Knighton's 20.04 also set a world U18 record, which had belonged to Usain Bolt until Knighton broke it in May.
June 25, 2021

2020 Olympic Trials W800 Preview: Will Ajee' Wilson Still Rule the 800? Or Is It Athing Mu's Time?

Wilson has been the best in the world for most of the past four years, but Mu has been on fire in 2021. And what about Raevyn Rogers or the resurgent Kate Grace and Chanelle Price?
June 25, 2021

Womens 10,000: Who Will Make the US Olympic Team on Saturday?

Reminder, the race gets underway at 10 am Pacific (1 ET). Will it be a BTC sweep? Can Sara Hall shock the world and make an Olympic team at 38? Does new US citizen Weini Kelalti have a chance?
June 25, 2021

Women's Steeple: Emma Coburn, Courtney Frerichs Go 1-2 as Val Constien & Leah Falland Show the Beauty & Agony of the Olympic Trials

Coburn won her 7th straight US title as she and Frerichs went 1-2 for the fifth straight year. Falland was in third with two laps to go and fell, and though she was third again at the bell, Constien -- who works a full-time job -- was too strong over the last lap.
June 25, 2021
Eugene, OR
June 18, 2021 to June 27, 2021

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Outside Letsrun

Post-Race Video Interviews from Olympic Trials

June 29, 2021

Hobbs Kessler's grandparents are pumped for Trials and will be watching on tv

June 23, 2021

Preview - Men's Field Events - U.S. Olympic Team Trials

June 17, 2021
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