2022 Outdoors

[Ladyloz]

Fred Kerley is in scintillating form. 9.77 WL in the trials, and the home advantage surely puts him in the driving seat for WC gold.

Yep. Has to be favourite now. Bromell ran well in the semi but not quite so well in the final although he finished 3rd behind Marvin Bracy so is on the team.

Jacobs is running at the Italian Champs, so it will be interesting to see what he does.

[Occasional Hope]

And there are big questions about Bromell's big match temperament.

Yes, interesting to see how Jacobs has recovered from what sounds like a rather nasty illness. If not for that I wouldn't have counted him out to spoil the party for the Americans.

[Ladyloz]

Kambundji ran 10.89 at the Swiss Champs

[RunUnlimited]

Fred Kerley is in scintillating form. 9.77 WL in the trials, and the home advantage surely puts him in the driving seat for WC gold.

Ran even faster in the semi final, setting a 9.76 (+1.4m/s) WL and going to = 6th on the world all time list and = 3rd on the USA all time list, joining Christian Coleman (Booo!) and Trayvon Bromell. And talking of that idiot Coleman... he was a no show in the final after running a 9.87 SB in his semi final heat, where he finished 3rd behind Bromell and Bracey-Williams.... That was almost the best result of the entire US Trials right there!

[Occasional Hope]

Regrettably, Coleman gets a wild card to the champs as defending world champion.

[Occasional Hope]

You would think that a drugs related ban in between would negate that, but no.

[RunUnlimited]

I can't believe folks aren't mentioning Athing Mu's 800m semi final win, where she ran 1:57.55 and dragged a bunch of others into setting substantial PBs too, like Sage Hurta who was 2nd in 1:58.30, and Olivia Baker, 3rd in 1:58.46, both of them going sub 1:59 for the first time and taking more than a second off their prior PBs.

[Occasional Hope]

Waiting for the final

[MBChristie]

Amazing heat time, Only herself and Moraa (winning the Kenyan trail 1:57.45 from Kipyegon 1:58.45) have run faster this year

[MysteryBrick]

1:57.20 indoors from Keely too.

[MysteryBrick]

Hodgkinson must *hate* being around in the era of Mu... she is by far and away World number 2, but Mu is terrifying.

[trickstat]

Yes the Euros were Zelezny's nemesis. He kept throwing until 2006 in an attempt to win one.

[Ursus]

Amazing that the Spear God only picked up 2 bronzes at Euro level. But with his 6 globals and WRs I reckon he sleeps pretty well at night. What he did in Sydney must have broken Backley’s heart. And Parviainen must have been even more upset when his 91.31 opener in Edmonton wasn’t enough.

[paul]

I'm pretty sure the opposite is true. Hodgkinson's chances of breaking the world record are *greatly* enhanced by the existence of Mu.

[Occasional Hope]

Commonwealth champion Wycliffe Kinyamal won the Kenyan trials with 1.43.54. Wanyonyi second.

[marilyn1]

Let's hear it for Yohan Blake.A great win in the Jamacan trials, with Oblique Sevill just behind. The 800m at the WC is going to be enormous.

[Occasional Hope]

Seems like a bit of a nonsequitur...

[CAML]

Sasha Zhoya wins the French champs in 13.17(-0.5).

[jjimbojames]

He’s taking chunks off his time as the season goes and he gets more races over the new height.

[Occasional Hope]

Yes, he's really adapting well.

[Ursus]

Bloody hell, Crouser…..his 4th best effort was 22.98….three 23m puts in his series!!! 23.01, 23.11 and 23.12.

Kovacs in 2nd with a mere 22.87.

In wHT Deanna Price who last year became only the 2nd woman over 80m could only finish 4th.

[MysteryBrick]

Another WR for McLaughlin. On an absolutely different level. Would have won the flat 400m at the UK champs (albeit slightly different conditions).

[Ursus]

Another WR for McLaughlin. On an absolutely different level. Would have won the flat 400m at the UK champs (albeit slightly different conditions).

Here it is. Made to look ridiculously easy.

[Occasional Hope]

Wow. She doesn't look very happy afterwards.

[Occasional Hope]

And Keni Harrison looks ready to challenge Camacho Quinn with a 12.34 WL.

[RunUnlimited]

Looks like the USA will only be sending one representative to the World Champs in the men's 1500m, as Cooper Teare won the Trials final in slow, tactical, 3:45.86. He had the standard, indeed he is the no.1 American this year, so he's punched his ticket for a return appearance in this stadium in 3 weeks time.
However, the 3 other men who had the required time, Johnny Gregorek, Yared Nuguse and Henry Wynne, all finished outside of the remaining podium places, in 6th, 11th and 12th respectively. With USATF's stringent and ruthless selection policy for major championships, those men paid the price for messing around in such a slow race and will not get a chance to represent the USA in a home championships.

[trickstat]

That's not how the US system works. An important principle of US selection is that they always take the biggest team they can. In events like the sprints and hurdles they tend to have so many athletes who are qualified for the Worlds that it is unlikely that someone who isn't qualified makes the first 3. For example, all 16 women's 100h semi-finalists had the QT. In an event where there are athletes in the first 3 at the US Trials who aren't qualified by mark or World Athletics ranking, they will go further down the order to fill their compliment up where they can.

[Occasional Hope]

Yes - they'll take the 6th and 11th place guys. (Or are any of those above them in a rankings spot?)

[RunUnlimited]

Ahh, thanks for clearing that up for me... I always imagined that the first three past the post rule meant that if those that did have the standard, but didn't get into the top three would be left out.