Both races were fairly close as the top-5 men and the top-4 women were separated by less than 30-seconds.
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Albertson went out fast in Boston and lead through 20 miles. He talks about how he held on to finish 10th (2nd American) and how his friends and family reacted to the race.
She broke Molly Huddle’s AR from 2015 by 3-seconds to win the race by a dominant 39-seconds.
The 10.12 sprinter says he missed Tokyo 2020 due to "unfair" NZ selection policy despite hitting World Athletics' standards.
Sahlman will rejoin his former teammate Nico Young.
"Andre De Grasse is more consistent any time he is in shape he is always on the podium ...Everyone else has been up and down, win one meet lose the next and it is all about consistency."
Leul Gebresilase (2:04:02), Tamirat Tola (2:04:06), Ayele Abshero (2:04:23) and Amdework Walelegn (58:53) lead the men's field while the women's has Angela Tanui (2:20:08) and Besu Sado (2:21:03).
The men's race has five with sub-2:06 PBs.
Warner wants to win a world title, break the WR and become just the fourth man to win back-to-back Olympic decathlon titles.
Japan Running News' Brett Larner notes, "In the face of the dramatically improved numbers and studies showing that mass-participation races are not a significant source of spread when staged with proper protocols, the cancelation of two major races in Tokyo, especially one as far away as February, suggests that there is more to this story."