The 2016 Olympic 1500m champion had been seeking to make a fourth straight Olympic team and is in Eugene, but felt he was not in a position to be competitive due to the injury.

Plus can Matthew Centrowitz make a 4th Olympic team at his final Trials? *MB My Predictions for the US Men’s 1500 Olympic Team

We share the 6 Biggest Storyline For The 2024 U.S. Olympic Team Trials — Track & Field. Who is the fastest man and woman in America? Can SML and Grant Holloway break the WRs? How do Athing Mu and Ryan Crouser look in their 2024 outdoor debuts? And what happens in the greatest event in track - the men's 1500?

Americans Yared Nuguse, Cole Hocker, Hobbs Kessler, and Matthew Centrowitz have their hands full with a stacked field that also features World Indoor champ Geordie Beamish.

SML doesn't race often but when she does it's almost always incredible. Bryce Hoppel appears to be at a new level in 2024 and is there still a little magic left in Centro?

The 34-year-old Centrowitz is gaining momentum as he pushes for one final Olympic team but should he be worried that he doesn't have the standard? Plus Leonard Korir looks like he's going to Paris and Japanese teen Kazuma Maeda runs 27:21 breaking his 5000 pb in both the firs and 2nd halves of the Japanese 10,000 champs.

Engelhardt is now the 5th fastest US HSer in history. Did you know that the four fastest US HSers in history never broke their HS PRs?

Centrowitz, 33, had ACL surgery in May and will race for the first time since November 2021.

Earlier today best-selling author and huge track fan Malcolm Gladwell wrote, "(Matthew Centrowitz) doesn’t even belong in the same conversation as, say, Nick Willis, who never won gold but nonetheless was a threat to win every big race he entered for a good 10 years." What a ridiculous statement. We had to set the record straight.

• MB: Malcolm Gladwell says Matthew Centrowitz “doesn’t even belong in the same conversation as, say, Nick Willis.” Do you agree?
• For Global Running Day: A Conversation Between Malcolm Gladweel & David Epstein About Their Favorite Sport

Drew Hunter is back and Weini Kelati showed she's a level above everyone else.

An Olympic record was set by Abel Kipsang in semi #2

Some fairly big names struggled, one fell, and Yared Nuguse did not start.

Centro went out super fast but the rabbits tied up and so did he, but he still managed to move to #5 on the all-time US list at 3:49.26. *MB: Centro American Record Attempt - 7/24

You can watch it live tonight at 9:10 pm Pacific on youtube.

Get the inside scoop on the record attempt which will take place at 9:10 pm Pacific.

Centrowitz said he and Houlihan went to the food truck at the center of her nandrolone case numerous times while they were dating but that on the night before her positive test, he wasn't there as Houlihan was with friends before watching The Bachelorette. "Absolutely, I support her. I believe her. And you know, I don’t think it’s a complete secret that her and I did have a relationship in the past, so I know her really well. I know the type of athlete, the type of individual she is....With Shelby, I was there 24/7. I know what she was putting in her body. I know the vitamins that she was taking. I would have seen it, because I was there, literally, 24/7 with her.” MB: Centro defends Shelby

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.

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

Discount Matthew Centrowitz at your own peril as he was fantastic and DOMINATED the 1500  while there were also victories for Brits Laura Muir (1:58.71) and Katie Snowden (4:02.98) in the women’s 800 and 1500.

The distance races at this weekend's Track Meet in LA are stacked and can be viewed for just $5.99 and Jonathan Gault has questions about Lopez Lomong, Matthew Centrowitz, Conner Mantz, Sifan Hassan, and Sinclaire Johnson will fare.