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Despite difficult year Team USATF shined bright

Despite difficult year Team USATF shined bright If every cloud has a silver lining, the ominous thunderhead that was 2020 will be remembered for some remarkable individual and team efforts in track and field that overcame a global pandemic that shut down normal avenues of training and competition. Before the pandemic struck in the third month, the year started out filled with excitement and anticipation for the Tokyo Olympic Games and the first U.S. Olympic Track & Field Trials in the glittering new Hayward Field.       An indoor season that offered a chance to qualify for the World Indoor Championships in China saw records fall at the Millrose Games in New York City on Feb. 8, where middle distance stars

2020 review: hurdles | NEWS

Femke Bol and Karsten Warholm (© AFP / Getty Images) As this extraordinary year draws to a close, we look back at the key moments of 2020 in each area of the sport. The series continues today with a review of the hurdles disciplines. Women s 100m hurdles It is hard to find a simple explanation but the hurdle events turned out to be probably the most affected by the pandemic and its consequences. In 2019, 65 athletes dipped under 13 seconds. This year that number plummeted to just 17, a decrease of 70%. That reduction was most conspicuous at the top end as last year s entire top-10 went missing in 2020. So it was just logical that the 2020 world-leading time of 12.68 would have sufficed for just 16th place on the 2019 world list.

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