Dallasites reunite at benefit for storm-damaged Family Place shelter
Photo by Tamytha Cameron
Photo by Tamytha Cameron
Photo by Tamytha Cameron
Photo by Tamytha Cameron
Photo by Tamytha Cameron
Photo by Tamytha Cameron
Photo by Tamytha Cameron On the night the CDC declared masks could come off for vaccinated individuals Thursday, May 13 a coterie of Dallas philanthropists gathered in the Nasher Sculpture Center Gardens for one of the first in-person fundraisers in the city since the coronavirus pandemic began more than a year ago. And
ReuNight for The Family Place couldn t come a moment too soon. The Dallas agency s family violence shelter suffered severe damage when pipes burst during February s winter storm, forcing them to quickly move more than 100 clients to offsite locations. (It was one of two Dallas shelters devastated by the storm, and the one that did
Distance Night at Mt. SAC: Sean McGorty (8:20) Dazzles in Steeple Debut as Evan Jager Paces and Molly Huddle Struggles
Sean McGorty to make his steeplechase debut.
It was worth the wait.
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Running on the same track where his teammate
Evan Jager made his debut nine years ago, McGorty who was paced by Jager in this race through two kilometers ran 8:20.77 to smash his first career steeplechase, knocking out the 8:22.00 Olympic standard and holding off a charging
Dan Michalski to win the USATF Golden Games at Mt. SAC on Sunday night.
McGorty, the 2018 NCAA 5,000m champion at Stanford, had initially planned on trying out the steeple in 2019, his first full year as a professional with the Bowerman Track Club, but he wound up missing almost the entire season due to a mysterious (and serious) infection in his foot, which required multiple surgeries. McGorty was healthy in 2020, but the lack of access to facilities meant there were no steeples for h
USATF Golden Games Preview: What A Meet!!! Brazier v Hoppel v Murphy, Lyles v Bednarek, Jager Returns, McGorty Debuts, & DK Metcalf
May 7, 2021
We’re just six weeks out from the US Olympic Trials, and this weekend many of America’s top athletes have decided it’s time to show their cards.
Evan Jager is running his first steeple since 2018.
Allyson Felix is running her first 200 outdoors since 2017. And world champions
Noah Lyles (200m) and
Donavan Brazier (800m) will run their specialty events for the first time outdoors in 2021 the latter against a stacked field that includes
Bryce Hoppel and
Shelby Houlihan is still nowhere to be seen and
Which Americans Have the Olympic Standard Right Now? Who Would Get In On World Ranking? And How Do You Qualify For the Olympics, Again?
May 5, 2021
Seven weeks from now, America’s top athletes will head to the new Hayward Field for the US Olympic Trials, where they will attempt to qualify for this summer’s Olympic Games in Tokyo. But how, exactly, does one qualify for the Olympics?
It’s a question worth revisiting, because the Olympic qualifying system has undergone some significant changes from previous years. And, unless you’re an agent or an athlete, it may have been a while since you’ve actually read through the specifics. Over two years have passed since the IAAF introduced these changes yes, it was so long ago that World Athletics was still known as the IAAF and I’m guessing you read something about “world rankings” and maybe forgot about it for a while once COVID hit last year.
WTW: A Look At The Ethiopian Olympic Marathon Team, America’s Teen Sprint Prodigies Continue To Impress, Courtney Wayment and Karoline Grøvdal Run Fast
Below we try to make sense of some of the major events of the last week.
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Assuming the Ethiopian federation sticks to what it has said it will do and take the top 3 from its trials to the Olympics, the list of names that didn’t make the 2020 Ethiopian Olympic men’s marathon team is staggering.
Kenenisa Bekele – the world’s greatest distance runner and second-fastest marathon in history isn’t on the team, nor is the third- or fourth-fastest men in history in