Coffee with Larry, June 25, 2024, Day 4 of the 2024 Olympic Trials, full of Ecstacy, and Yes, Some Agony!

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Our topics today:

1. The Women’s 5000-meter event was tremendous, with .02 separating Elle St. Pierre and Elise Cranny! Karisa Schweizer took third, and gutty Parker Valby, 4th and lead from start to 4200 meters, got Olympic standard.

Two hundredths of a second seperated Elise Cranny and Elle St. Pierre in the 5,000m final! photo by Chuck Aragon, for RunBlogRun

2. Vashti Cunningham had to fight to make the Women’s HJ, including a jump-off, with Vashti, who has won 13 titles, taking third. Charity Huffnagel soared 1.94m PB, 6-4.25, and Rachel Glenn cleared 1.94m!

Vashti Cunningham, June 24, 2024, photo by Chuck Aragon for RunBlogRun

3. Jeremiah Davis’s 8.20 m long jump, Malcom Clemons’ 8.18m, and Jarrion Lawson’s clutch jump of 8.18 m got the vet on the team.

4. Cole Hocker defended his title from 2021 in an enthralling race! Yared Nuguse took silver, and Hobbs Kessler took the bronze.

The Thrill of Victory, Cole Hocker takes his second Oly Trials 1,500m title, June 24, 2024, photo by Chuck Aragon for RunBlogRun.

5. While everyone was wondering if Quincy Wilson would make the team and how much Mike Norman would win, Quincy Hall delivered a PB of 44.17, Mike Norman, 44.41, and Chris Bailey, 44.42 PB. Quincy Wilson ran 44.94, his third time under 45 seconds in just 4 days!!!!!

Quincy Hall, photo by Chuck Aragon for RunBlogRun

6. In a crazy 800m, Nia Akins kept her calm, ran a PB of 1:57.36, and won the race. Allie Wilson slipped by Juliette Whittaker, who took silver and bronze. Athing Mu had fallen at 200 meters, and while an appeal was filed by Athing’s coach, USATF denied the appeal. Athing Mu, short on racing, was caught in the congestion of the field at 200 meters and will not defend her title in Paris.

Nia Akins wins 800m, with Allie Willson taking silver and Juliette Whitaker taking bronze, photo by Chuck Aragon for RunBlogRun.

See you all tomorrow!

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Larry Eder

Larry Eder has had a 52-year involvement in the sport of athletics. Larry has experienced the sport as an athlete, coach, magazine publisher, and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America's first sub-4 minute miler, was published in RW in 1983. Larry has published several magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. version of Spikes magazine. He currently manages the content and marketing development of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his daily pilgrimage with the sport, Larry says: "I have to admit, I love traveling to far away meets, writing about the sport I love, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, the most of anything I have ever done, except, maybe running itself." Also does some updates for BBC Sports at key events, which he truly enjoys.

Theme song: Greg Allman, " I'm no Angel."

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