What are they saying? Is Amy asking Shalane what to do? Is Shalane telling her to go for the win? It was clear someone was having the better day, and that someone was Cragg—the woman who missed the team by one place four years prior. Flanagan, the defending Olympic Trials champion, was falling apart. As the miles counted down to the final two of No one was touching her at this point, and the question dramatically shifted from W ho gets third?
At one point, Linden was running in third, right between Flanagan and Goucher, with a second gap on either side. Within what seemed like the same amount of time, her trail behind Flanagan shrunk to 19 seconds. Linden steadily separated herself from a strong fourth-place Goucher, passing a slowing Linden in barely the final mile.
The course, which covered a 6-mile loop four times for the greater part of the race, was lined with spectators. It was a mental battle when those guys got away. You wonder if your tactics are right. I had to just let them go and trust in that [race strategy] today. Linden was 34 seconds behind, pumping her arms into the air as she came down the final meters.
In the lead-up to the Boston Marathon, U. Scott Fauble, a year-old Olympic team contender, and Ward silenced the skeptics by finishing seventh and eighth, respectively, in Boston and under —a feat only Rupp had done since Last November, Ward was the top American at the New York City Marathon with another strong showing as he clocked a for sixth overall.
It was more than a minute faster than his previous best on the same course. Cragg won the trials in after pushing the pace from the front with her teammate Shalane Flanagan. In Rio, she ran just five seconds slower and placed ninth. Cragg followed up her first Olympic Marathon with a bronze medal at the World Championships in , becoming the first American woman on the podium in nearly 34 years. The top three women in that race were just seven seconds apart. In , she lowered her personal best to at the Tokyo Marathon and she now stands as the fifth-fastest American female marathoner.
However, last fall, she resumed training for the Olympic Trials but announced that she had to withdraw from the trials due to illness. Linden is a model in consistency and split for the first half of her race in Rio and then for the second half to finish in for seventh place. In , Linden nearly got back on the podium at the Boston Marathon with a finish, which was the third-fastest time by an American woman that year.
Only Jordan Hasay and her remarkable in Chicago and in Boston were faster. Her return to Boston in would be the stunner. Strong headwinds, icy rain and cold conditions led to one of the most unpredictable races in the year history of the Boston Marathon. Linden nearly dropped out of the race just six miles into the day, but then rebounded, stopped to help a teammate and then pulled away from the leaders at the mile mark to become the first American woman to win Boston since Her winning time of may be the slowest time by a champion since , but she cemented herself in U.
The win propelled Linden to mainstream fame and had people like Ellen Degeneres tweeting about her. After the win, Linden parted ways with coaches Keith and Kevin Hanson to team up with her college coach Walt Drenth, who is also a coach at Michigan State. Not much changed performance-wise for Linden, as she remained among the top American women at the New York City Marathon the past two years and took fifth at the Boston Marathon in Linden was mum about her plans in the fall but announced in December that she will run the U.
Olympic Trials and the Boston Marathon seven weeks apart. In her fourth Olympics, Flanagan finished in sixth place as the top American woman, just four years after a ninth-place finish. Due to the timing of the positive test, she kept her gold medal. Flanagan went into the New York City Marathon contemplating retirement, but history had other plans. She became the first American woman to win the race since Miki Gorman in and it extended her career for at least one more year.
In , she struggled in the conditions and finished seventh in Boston. She returned to New York to defend her title and finished third for a third time on the podium. It ended up being her last race, as knee issues left her unable to train at a high level in , and in October, she announced her retirement at 38 years old. In addition to her Olympic appearances and New York City glory, she finished her career with a silver medal from the Summer Games, the third-fastest female U.
She has moved onto coaching and works with the Nike Bowerman Track Club. The wide receiver, who is unvaccinated, was unmasked while sitting courtside during a Mavericks game. Giannis Antetokounmpo and Milwaukee had their way with the Warriors on Thursday night. The star Georgia quarterback went from winning the natty on Monday to serving chicken on Thursday.
The findings will be announced two days before the start of the season, which will be in Bahrain.
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