Even in the run-up to the Olympic trials, Franklin usually takes off two days a week.
She was the third and final qualifier for the hurdles at the U.S. Olympic trials.
As recently as March, when Australia held its Olympic trials, head coach Leigh Nugent spoke optimistically.
The U.S. Track and Field Olympic Trials got off to a dramatic start yesterday in Eugene, Oregon.
So she ran the New York City Marathon in 2010, finishing second, then won the Olympic trials in January of 2012.
After treating Lewis, Brown watched on television from Houston as his patient, competing in the U.S. Olympic trials, fell prey to cramps.
Watching the Olympic Trials on television made me recall my stint as a professor in Lausanne, Switzerland, home of the International Olympic Committee.
In the second race she ever ran she tied the record for the 100m, which got her to the Olympic trials where she finished second.
The report recommended shortening the 10-day Olympic trials in Eugene, Ore.
In this year's U.S. Olympic trials, Dathan Ritzenhein, the two-time Olympian and 5k American record holder, was eliminated from the marathon team because of leg cramps.
Johnson's time of 19.32 secs. lopped no less than 0.34 secs. off his own record, set on the same track in the U.S. Olympic trials in June.
Yet another looked as if he got lost on the way to the Olympic trials for swimming that were held here a few months back, belly-flopping onto the ice.
He has since worked hard to repair his past and was the defending champion at the Prefontaine, winning last year in 9.9 in a tuneup for the U.S. Olympic trials.
The challenge has been joined this week at the Olympic trials, where Phelps is off to a smashing start as he seeks to qualify in enough events in order to beat history in Beijing.
He did not make the final of the Beijing Olympics 100m in 2008 as he attempted to come back from a hamstring injury at the US Olympic trials that knocked him out of the 200m.
But if the appeal is successful it could clear the way for Gatlin to receive a two-year ban for the 2006 test and become eligible to compete in May, a month ahead of the US Olympic trials for the Beijing Games.
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Mr. BURFOOT: Well, they're so competitive because it's the Olympic trials, and they - many people around the world think that the U.S. Olympic track trials is in some ways more spectacular even than the Olympic, because of the fact that there is so much talent in this country.
Ratings for the U.S. Olympic swim trials in June were up 91%, versus four years ago.
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If the panel treated the 2006 violation as a first offence and cut the ban to two years, he could be reinstated in May, giving him time to qualify for the US Olympic Athletics Trials from 27 June.
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Athletics officials from many countries, including perennial long-distance power Kenya, forgo trials and select their Olympic marathoners based on criteria that range from personal bests to overall bodies of work.
"I want to see the fight between Usain Bolt and Yohan Blake in the sprint, " said Rogge, reflecting on last weekend's races between the pair which saw Blake beat the 2008 triple Olympic champion twice in the Jamaican trials.
Eaton broke the world mark with 9039 points at the U.S. trials in June where 2008 Olympic champion Bryan Clay failed to make the team after falling in the 110 meters hurdles.
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The timing of the trials gives athletes who earn an Olympic spot little time to bask in that glory, a limitation that may irk their sponsors.
You make it to the Olympic team if you finish in the top three and hit the Olympic standard for your event, either at the trials or some other competition.
With cruel irony, she was injured in a car crash on Olympic Boulevard in Los Angeles just three weeks before the American trials.
Now, she came into the trials without running a 10, 000 meters in the required Olympic qualifying time of 31 minutes and 45 seconds.
Porter was third at the U.S. trials last year to earn a trip to London, finishing behind the eventual Olympic gold and silver medalists.
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