With byes earned at last year's World Athletics Championships, U.S. championships track stars aim to qualify in second events for this year's world championships.
For a sport working under a self-described mandate to increase its fanbase within the United States, track and field found a giant spotlight in 2022 by hosting the World Athletics Championships in the U.S. for the first time.This year, by contrast, can feel quieter. Though another world championships will be held, it won’t arrive until late August as other sports claim airtime in the U.S. This week’s U.S.
That has led to experimentation this weekend at the U.S. championships, where McLaughlin will run the 400, Kerley the 200, Lyles the 100 and Norman the 100 and 200. It sets up the possibility of McLaughlin-Levrone, Kerley and Lyles doubling up at the world championships should they qualify in their secondary events. Lyles has made no secret it is his intention to try.“We haven’t had a doubler since [Usain] Bolt,” Lyles told reporters Wednesday in Eugene, Ore. “And it’s about time we had one. Why not me?
Cordell Tinch , reigning world champion Grant Holloway and Daniel Roberts own the world’s three fastest times this season. Devon Allen’s 13.04 is tied for fourth-fastest with Japan’s Shunsuke Izumiya. This season, however, he arrives at the U.S. championships having not competed since May 5. He planned to race at the Los Angeles Grand Prix in late May but withdrew because of a sore quad.
This week, two teen sprinters also are attempting to upend expectations in the sprints where headliner Sha’Carri Richardson — who, looking to make her first world championships team for the U.S., will run both the 100 and 200 — is still among the prohibitive favorites.
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