Olympic Trials: Felix, Gatlin, Merritt book Rio Trips - Sports - capecodtimes. The Associated Press. Olympic mainstays Allyson Felix, LaShawn Merritt and Justin Gatlin, are all on their way to Rio de Janeiro. With the best times in the world this year to boot. Felix, Gatlin, Gardner qualifying for Rio. LaShawn Merritt wins 400m final in 43.97. Stay on top of the 2016 Rio Games by following NBC Olympics. Justin Gatlin, Allyson Felix and LaShawn Merritt. Like Merritt, Allyson Felix remains in. Justin Gatlin heads to Rio after. Gatlin also took another. Rio Olympics, Gatlin received a silver. He'll have some familiar company.Allyson Felix fought through her injured. Gatlin is heading to the Rio Olympics. Felix, Gatlin, Merritt book Rio. Felix, Gatlin, Merritt book trips to Olympics. Felix, LaShawn Merritt and Justin Gatlin. Felix launches defence for 200m with win in opening heat. Rio Olympics: Merritt blazes into 200m final. I’m just trying to take it a race at time. EUGENE, Ore. Olympic Trials. He'll have some familiar company. Allyson Felix fought through her injured right ankle to secure her spot in the 4. La. Shawn Merritt, the 2. And defending Olympic champion Ashton Eaton was a runaway winner in the decathlon. His 8,7. 50 points were one more than the personal best of anyone else who can qualify in the Olympic field. Also making it: Long- jumper Vashti Cunningham, the daughter of former NFL quarterback Randall Cunningham. SWIM TRIALS: The U. S. Olympic swim team has a history of improving its times from the trials to the games. The Americans are counting on it happening again next month in Rio after not setting a single world record during the eight- day selection meet. Led by Michael Phelps and Katie Ledecky, the U. S. Ryan Lochte and Missy Franklin struggled this time around and they'll be joined by 2. London. He was faster at last year's summer nationals where he swam times that would have won medals at the world championships in Russia. In January, she lowered her own world mark in the 8. Austin, Texas, where she set world- leading times in the 2. She'll try to become the first woman since American Debbie Meyers at the 1. Mexico City Games to sweep the 2. Team Trials, Abbey Weitzeil added a second individual event to her Rio program by winning the 5. Weitzeil touched first after a furious dash from one end of the pool to the other. Simone Manuel claimed the second Olympic spot — a repeat of their 1- 2 finish in the 1. The winning time was 2. Manuel was next at 2. Madison Kennedy out of a trip to Rio by 1. Connor Jaeger used a powerful finishing kick to pull away from Jordan Wilimovsky in the final event of the U. S. Olympic swimming trials, winning the 1,5. Sunday night. It was a two- man race all the way. By the end, no one was within a half- lap of the leaders, who finished in 1. BLAKE BACK: Just as he did four years ago, Yohan Blake is going to the Olympics as Jamaica's national champion in the 1. Blake won the 1. 00 on Friday and capped his country's senior national championships — the nation's version of an Olympic trials — on Sunday with a win in the 2. Simone Facey won the women's 2. Veronica Campbell- Brown. Facey prevailed in 2. Campbell- Brown — who officially clinched her fifth Olympic spot — was second in 2.
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