Official 2017 USATF Outdoor Nats Day 2 Live Discussion Thread

Yea Tripp Hurt made the final nice job working his way up

hello man wrote:

Michael Jordan to make the team

I hope he better at the steeple than baseball.

Are they seriously going to only eliminate one women in the 400h?

Who is handling the announcing at the stadium?

agreed, heat 1 has way more star power

stream is sucking

What happened to Huling?

Dan Huling? wrote:

What happened to Huling?

injury coming into the race.

Is the TV broadcast that will be on NBCSN in an hour live, or not? I was under the impression it would be live, but the TV guide says it's replay.

BS wrote:

Are they seriously going to only eliminate one women in the 400h?

According to the official results, yes. Completely stupid. What federation does this?

Dan Huling? wrote:

What happened to Huling?

Men’s steeple: Dan Huling’s streak of World Championship teams is over, but the other big names advance

There was some modest upheaval in this evening’s steeplechase prelims as a third of the 12 fastest men this year failed to advance to Sunday’s final. Of those four men, the biggest name by far was Dan Huling, who was fifth at Worlds two years ago and had made the last four U.S. World Champs teams - every team since 2009 (but neither the 2012 or 2016 Olympics).

Huling stepped off the track after just two laps in heat one and we didn’t catch him coming through the mixed zone. Huling’s training partner Evan Jager told us that Huling took a weird water jump a week ago which bothered his knee and hamstring, so it’s possible he reaggravated that injury.

In terms of the very best guys, the two heat winners were no surprise as Jager and Hillary Bor were the U.S.’s top two finishers in Rio last year and both won their heats. Jager’s heat 1 was markedly slower than Bor’s heat 2, which meant that all four time qualifiers came from the second heat.

Quick Take: After being “embarrassed” by his 3:43 at Payton Jordan, Evan Jager has been able to reset mentally and is ready to roll

Jager has only raced once this year, and by his own admission, it went poorly as he only ran 3:43 at Payton Jordan on May 5 -- over 10 seconds off his personal best. Jager said that the indoor season came up on him quickly, and with conditions poor for training in Portland over the winter, he didn’t have as many quality workouts under his belt by the time he debuted outdoors.

Jager could have decided to stay in Portland and race some more, but felt it was better if he went to altitude in Park City to boost his fitness and start locking in mentally. What is altitude camp like for Jager?

“You just sit on the couch all day and eat and sleep and everyone’s just tired all the time. So you’re just doing everything right with everyone else and it just makes training really hard a lot easier.”

Jager is back to where he wants to be now and ready to go for his sixth straight U.S. title on Sunday, but he said that there are still gains to be made between now and Worlds -- assuming he makes the team.

Also, a reminder. Our post-race interviews are being uploaded to this webpage:

Lots going on tonight. It's going to be a huge night highlighted by the men's and women's 100 finals and 5000 finals plus the 800 semis.

Schedule and results:

http://www.letsrun.com/news/2017/06/results-2017-usatf-outdoor-track-field-championship-results/

TV & Streaming:

http://www.letsrun.com/news/2017/06/schedule-entries-2017-usatf-outdoor-championships/

Our post-race interviews are being uploaded to this webpage:

http://www.letsrun.com/news/2017/06/video-interviews-2017-usatf-outdoor-championships-2017-usa-outdoor-track-field-champs/

Curtis beach moving on in the 400H, interesting event change for him.

I also thought johnny dutch was retiring after his disappointment at the Trials last year, great to see him back out there and sticking with it.

Smhsmh wrote:

BS wrote:

Are they seriously going to only eliminate one women in the 400h?

According to the official results, yes. Completely stupid. What federation does this?

Ridiculous

Anyone know what happened to Christian Taylor in the Triple Jump? He failed on his first attempt and passed the next 2. He is an auto qualifier to worlds because of his championship in 2015. I hope he is not injured.

Here are the 100 semi results in case you missed them. We've interviewed many of those who didn't make it to the final.

HEAT 1

WIND: -0.7 M/S

PL ATHLETE MARK LN/POS

1 (3) Morolake Akinosun

Nike 11.17 Q 5

2 (4) Ariana Washington

Oregon 11.18 Q 7

3 (5) Allyson Felix

Nike 11.22 Q 3

4 (6) Aleia Hobbs

LSU 11.23 Q 2

5 (8) Kimberlyn Duncan

Nike 11.24 6

6 (11) Hannah Cunliffe

Oregon 11.31 1

7 (12) Barbara Pierre

Nike 11.32 4

8 (15) Destiny Carter

Kentucky 11.36 8

HEAT 2

WIND: -1.2 M/S

PL ATHLETE MARK LN/POS

1 (1) Tori Bowie

adidas 11.03 Q 5

2 (2) Deajah Stevens

Oregon 11.15 Q 4

3 (7) English Gardner

Nike 11.23 Q 3

4 (9) Aaliyah Brown

Texas A&M 11.24 Q 6

5 (10) Ashley Henderson

San Diego St. 11.30 7

6 (13) Jenna Prandini

Puma 11.35 2

7 (14) Tianna Bartoletta

Nike 11.35 8

8 (16) Deanna Hill

Southern California 11.45 1

HEAT 1

WIND: -1.4 M/S

PL ATHLETE MARK LN/POS

1 (1) Christian Coleman

Nike 10.02 Q 4

2 (3) Jaylen Bacon

Arkansas St. 10.15 Q 5

3 (4) Beejay Lee

Unattached 10.16 Q 2

4 (5) Cameron Burrell

Houston 10.19 Q 8

5 (10) Kyree King

Oregon 10.22 6

6 (12) Ronnie Baker

Nike 10.26 3

7 (13) Jeff Demps

Unattached 10.27 7

8 (14) Marqueze Washington

Unattached 10.28 1

HEAT 2

WIND: -1.6 M/S

PL ATHLETE MARK LN/POS

1 (2) Justin Gatlin

Nike 10.04 Q 4

2 (6) Mike Rodgers

Unattached 10.19 Q 3

3 (7) Isiah Young

Nike 10.20 Q 5

4 (8) Christopher Belcher

N.C. A&T 10.22 Q 6

5 (9) Sean McLean

Unattached 10.22 8

6 (11) Jarrion Lawson

ASICS 10.24 7

7 (15) Dentarius Locke

Nike 10.35 2

8 (16) Remontay McClain

Unattached 10.39 1

ALH359 wrote:

Anyone know what happened to Christian Taylor in the Triple Jump? He failed on his first attempt and passed the next 2. He is an auto qualifier to worlds because of his championship in 2015. I hope he is not injured.

I believe you are required to compete in any event at nationals in order to be eligible for the wild card, so by taking 1 attempt he satisfies that requirement.

She cleared 1.99 and had a good run at her 1st 2 m clearaance but stopped after two tries.

PLACE ATHLETE RESULT

1 Vashti Cunningham 1.99

Nike 6-6 ¼

2 Liz Patterson 1.91

Santa Cruz TC 6-3 ¼

3 Inika Mcpherson 1.91

Unattached 6-3 ¼

4 Brigetta Barrett 1.88

Unattached 2-Jun

5 Michelle Spires 1.85

Air Force 6-0 ¾

6 Amina Smith 1.85

adidas Garden State TC 6-0 ¾

7 Elizabeth Evans 1.8

Unattached 5-10 ¾

7 Maya Pressley 1.8

Unattached 5-10 ¾

7 Kaysee Pilgrim 1.8

UNLV 5-10 ¾

7 Logan Boss 1.8

Unattached 5-10 ¾

7 Zarriea Willis 1.8

Texas Tech 5-10 ¾

7 Chaunte Lowe 1.8

Nike 5-10 ¾

13 Chelsie DeCoud 1.8

Texas St. 5-10 ¾

Taylor Wiebke NH

Minnesota

Nicole Greene NH

North Carolina

Kandie Bloch-Jones NH

Illinois

Stacey Destin NH

Alabama

Mady Fagan NH

Georgia