Nope. Due to limitless stupidity, Friday is on USATF.tv and Saturday is on Peacock.
Why charge your fans once when you can charge them twice at twice the price?
Going to have to do another one-and-done USATF.tv thing...
Christ, I forgot there was a fourth track streaming service you have to subscribe to.
Makes watching major league sports seem like a bargain. I only have to subscribe to three different streaming services (plus have an antenna for the ABC games) if I want to watch the Celtics!
They also included this bit about Saturday, so at least these people are confirmed as of May 13:
But don't miss the action on Saturday. Get your Saturday tickets today and join us in watching: 800 meter rivals Athing Mu and Mary Moraa step in the 400 meter race to take on world #1 Marileidy Paulino - it doesn't get better than this. Men’s 400 Meters: Olympic medalists Michael Norman and Kirani James go head-to-head in a deep field that includes recent World #3 Vernon Norwood. Women’s 200 Meters: Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, Gabby Thomas, Abby Steiner, and Jenna Prandini face off in a smoldering race. “Baby Bolt” Letsile Tebogo runs the Men’s 100
They also included this bit about Saturday, so at least these people are confirmed as of May 13:
But don't miss the action on Saturday. Get your Saturday tickets today and join us in watching: 800 meter rivals Athing Mu and Mary Moraa step in the 400 meter race to take on world #1 Marileidy Paulino - it doesn't get better than this. Men’s 400 Meters: Olympic medalists Michael Norman and Kirani James go head-to-head in a deep field that includes recent World #3 Vernon Norwood. Women’s 200 Meters: Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, Gabby Thomas, Abby Steiner, and Jenna Prandini face off in a smoldering race. “Baby Bolt” Letsile Tebogo runs the Men’s 100
Except that Mu just bailed from the meet.
Anyone surprised?
And, as mentioned earlier, no more Cranny in the 1500 "A" race -- only to be replaced by Hassan who just entered the 5000 "A" race Friday night.
They also included this bit about Saturday, so at least these people are confirmed as of May 13:
But don't miss the action on Saturday. Get your Saturday tickets today and join us in watching: 800 meter rivals Athing Mu and Mary Moraa step in the 400 meter race to take on world #1 Marileidy Paulino - it doesn't get better than this. Men’s 400 Meters: Olympic medalists Michael Norman and Kirani James go head-to-head in a deep field that includes recent World #3 Vernon Norwood. Women’s 200 Meters: Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, Gabby Thomas, Abby Steiner, and Jenna Prandini face off in a smoldering race. “Baby Bolt” Letsile Tebogo runs the Men’s 100
Except that Mu just bailed from the meet.
Anyone surprised?
And, as mentioned earlier, no more Cranny in the 1500 "A" race -- only to be replaced by Hassan who just entered the 5000 "A" race Friday night.
Meaning, Hassan is doing the 5k/Friday night-then-1500/Saturday afternoon double.
Sifan is a breath of fresh air, blowing away the stench left behind by all the dropouts.
Anyway, both Friday night's 5000 "A" races should be terrific.
Is Woody's 12:51.61 from a BU meet indoors last year the fastest 5k ever run in the US? If, so, that could go down.
Timing service will have start lists here . . . eventually (nothing as of Wed night):
They also included this bit about Saturday, so at least these people are confirmed as of May 13:
But don't miss the action on Saturday. Get your Saturday tickets today and join us in watching: 800 meter rivals Athing Mu and Mary Moraa step in the 400 meter race to take on world #1 Marileidy Paulino - it doesn't get better than this. Men’s 400 Meters: Olympic medalists Michael Norman and Kirani James go head-to-head in a deep field that includes recent World #3 Vernon Norwood. Women’s 200 Meters: Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, Gabby Thomas, Abby Steiner, and Jenna Prandini face off in a smoldering race. “Baby Bolt” Letsile Tebogo runs the Men’s 100
Per usatf.org "Status of Entries" page, 12:57 guy Edwin Kurgat/Kenya/UA Dark Sky Distance is the only remaining top-tier 5k runner who is "Accepted" but not "Declared."
Suspect this is most likely due to Athletics Kenya's recent announcement that it's 10k Oly Trials race will be held during the Pre Classic a couple weekends from now.
Since Kurgat ran 26:57 @ The TEN back in March -- thus will be one of the dozen Kenyan men racing @ Pre -- appears he will be a no-show tomorrow night.
Nonetheless, the men's 5k "A" race will be amazing for a non-Diamond League race -- and we still don't know who all the entrants are besides Cheptegei, Kiplimo, Barega, Ahmed, Teare, and Fisher. (We now know that Hocker is the lead entrant in the "B" race.)
Would make sense for Kincaid to come out of the wood works since, like Grant, he hasn't raced since The TEN, is a Nike guy, and is not entered in the Oslo 5k race on 5/30.
And, Sean McGorty, if he's fit enough after his winter injury to make his 2024 debut.
We are now officially 24 hours from the start of the first event, the hammer throw. And there still are no official heat sheets. We still do not know who is running in the races. And they want us to buy tickets at $30/$75/$175 per person?
They need to start a system like the NFL. Out = 0% chance he is playing, Doubtful = 25% chance, Questionable = 50% chance, Probable = 75% chance. Give us the full list of everybody that has registered and have each athlete identify himself as out, doubtful, questionable, or probable.
We are now officially 24 hours from the start of the first event, the hammer throw. And there still are no official heat sheets. We still do not know who is running in the races. And they want us to buy tickets at $30/$75/$175 per person?
They need to start a system like the NFL. Out = 0% chance he is playing, Doubtful = 25% chance, Questionable = 50% chance, Probable = 75% chance. Give us the full list of everybody that has registered and have each athlete identify himself as out, doubtful, questionable, or probable.
Didn't you hear, there is an MBA who is responsible for marketing this meeting.
"We are going to select which athletes are to compete in their respective events after they have warmed up, we will be using bingo balls with athletes names on them. The number of athletes selected will be less than the number who warmed up with 75% selected. We expect this concept to drive revenue and engagement for the purpose of increased interest and popularity in track and field in the US" /s