Great Britain Controversially Picks Final 2 Women’s Olympic Marathoners – Did They Make The Right Call?
Charlotte Purdue was left off the team despite having a marathon pb (2:25:38) more than a minute faster than Steph Twell (2:26:40)
. If we’d picked the team, we might have picked Twell and Purdue and left off the fastest of the bunch,
Jess Piasecki (2:25:29), as a messageboard poster claims her pb came on a short course.
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(01-Apr) Six days after the first stand-alone British Olympic Trials Marathon in 41 years, British Athletics has named their marathon squad for this summer’s Tokyo Olympics.