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The Trials, in Their Own Words

June 18, 2012 at 02:00pm EST | by Barbara Huebner, NYRR News Service

With the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials beginning in just four days, athletes have spent the past several weeks winding up their training. Some have raced against top international fields, while others have sought some diversion, even comic relief, from the pressures of training for one of the most important events of their lives. At least one is just hoping to make it to the finish line intact.

Here’s a quick glimpse at what some Read More

Categories: Pro Athletes

Bringing the World to Central Park Year-Round

June 15, 2012 at 12:00pm EST | by Barbara Huebner, NYRR News Service

In its second year, the 5-mile Portugal Day race, scheduled for Sunday at 8:00 a.m., will celebrate that nation’s lively culture of food and music. The 4,641 runners who finished the inaugural race last year are still proudly wearing their colorful, Portugal-themed technical shirts all over the city.

If the ING New York City Marathon has been known as the race “where the world comes to run,” the series of six nation-themed races organized by New Read More

Categories: Human Interest

Ed Moran Out of Olympic Trials

June 14, 2012 at 10:30am EST | by Barbara Huebner, NYRR News Service

Ed Moran, who finished just six seconds shy of making the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team at 10,000 meters, will not compete at the 2012 Trials.

Moran, 30, said that a chronic case of peroneal tendinitis at the base of the fifth metatarsal on his left foot—just below the little toe—resulted in a bone spur and stress reaction, and that sometime around May 15 he realized that a return to the Trials was not to be.

“I kept Read More

Categories: Pro Athletes

2012 Olympic Trio Set for Boston Marathon

June 13, 2012 at 12:00pm EST | by Barbara Huebner, NYRR News Service

Shalane Flanagan, Desiree Davila, and Kara Goucher—the entire women’s 2012 U.S. Olympic Marathon team—will line up in Hopkinton next April 15 for the 117th Boston Marathon, the race’s principal sponsor, John Hancock Financial, announced this morning.

Flanagan won the U.S Olympic Marathon Trials in January in an event-record 2:25:38, followed by Davila in 2:25:55 and Goucher in 2:26:06. This will be Flanagan’s Boston debut.

“I watched the Boston Marathon religiously growing up and always dreamed about running Read More

Categories: Pro Athletes

Mosop Off, Emmanuel Mutui On Kenyan Olympic Team

June 12, 2012 at 12:00pm EST | by Barbara Huebner, NYRR News Service

An Achilles’ tendon injury has prompted Moses Mosop to withdraw from the marathon team that Kenya will be sending to the 2012 Olympic Games. He will be replaced by Emmanuel Mutai, according to Isaiah Kiplagat, president of the Athletics Kenya federation.

“We have received a letter from Mosop and his doctor saying he cannot compete and we have made the change,” Kiplagat told Capital FM in Kenya.

Mutai’s manager, Michel Boeting of the Netherlands, confirmed the replacement Read More

Categories: Pro Athletes

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