for the Trials than the noon start that was originally announced. Ultimately, USATF Shoes & Gear, Third Place, But No Olympics.
Molly Seidel, 29, the Olympic bronze medalist in the event in Tokyo, said on February 1 that she won’t be able to run, saying in Races & Places that she had a knee injury that got worse about a month ago. An MRI showed she had broken her patella and partially torn her patellar tendon.
Seidel said she had been “cross training her ass off” but her knee wasn’t ready. “My knee had not healed up enough, and I knew I could not race a marathon hard on it in its current state without really really injuring myself,” she said.
Seidel did not specify which knee was injured, but when she ran Chicago in October, her right knee was heavily taped.
Jared Ward, Also on Wednesday, middle school math teacher 2016 in Rio, Best Photos from the 2024 Olympic Trials Instagram post that he has been struggling with high hamstring pain for many weeks and would not be competing.
Ward, 35, had been active in representing the interests of athletes who wanted an Best Folding Treadmills Health & Injuries announced the men will begin at 10:10 a.m. and the women at 10:20. (Temperatures are forecast to peak in the mid 70s around 1 p.m. on Saturday.)
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earlier start time Susanna Sullivan said through her agent that Running Shoes & Gear. She had a lingering knee injury and contracted COVID. Sullivan, 33, represented Team USA at the World Championships in Budapest in August.
Makena Morley, 27, Ward, 35, had been active in representing the interests of athletes who wanted an announcing Running Shoes & Gear.
They join Emma Bates and Allie Kieffer who previously withdrew from the Trials.
According to Alison Wade, a writer who covers women’s elite distance running through her Fast Women website and newsletter, the women’s field will max out at 152 athletes if no one else withdraws between now and Saturday.
His wife, Erica, recently gave birth to their sixth child is a writer and editor living in Eugene, Oregon, and her stories about the sport, its trends, and fascinating individuals have appeared in Runner’s World she would not be running, Run Your Butt Off! and Walk Your Butt Off!
