Meanwhile over in naia finals, Wiley runs 2:01 for 3rd leg of 4x8. She finishes tomorrow with 1500 and 800 finals about 3 hours apart. Favored in both, I think she'll run both pretty quick.
Anybody know what is up with the protest in the 1500? Someone earlier said Ramsden tripped someone with 200 to go. What runner was tripped?
It looks like it was the girl from Temple that was tripped but she still got an auto spot. May have been checking if someone needed to be DQ'd to see if the West Virginia runner should get an auto spot but decided it wasn't intentional contact
Last year this race was glacial with Chelangat winning in 34:20 and 12th place at 34:36. I'm guessing this will be a bit faster, but I could be wrong, as no one in top6 has any real reason to make it fast and the pack, specifically Howlett, is helped by a slow race. I'll take Chelangat winning in 33:30 w/ Howlett a surprising 12th in 33:55.
Chelangat, Olemomoi, Chmiel, Hays, Vestri, Brown, Quarzo, Mancini, Boogerd, Roark, Millenaar and Howlett...survive and advance.