“I didn’t lift a weight until college,” she said. Andersen was a 135-pound soccer player who idolized Mia Hamm. “I played every sport except track and field,” said Kassanavoid. women’s throwers who were recruited into the sport not because they were big, but because they were explosive athletes, with deep backgrounds in multiple sports. (They followed DeAnna Price, who won the gold medal at the 2019 Worlds in Doha, Qatar). It had already been a successful day for the U.S.: Early in the afternoon, Brooke Andersen, 27 had taken gold in the hammer throw and teammate Janee’ Kassanavoid had won bronze. pole vaulter Sandi Morris, 30, stands at the end of the runway, safely in possession of a silver medal to match the silvers she won the at the 2016 Olympics, and 2017 and ’19 Worlds, but needing a clearance at 16 feet, ¾ inches to pass teammate Katie Nageotte, the 2021 Olympic gold medalist, and move into first place. A breeze swirling around the new stadium, which was mostly full for the second consecutive night. (All times approximate, don’t me with your timestamps).ħ:28 p.m.: A crystalline sky overhead, slowly darkening, temperatures dipping toward the low-70s as if Eugene had put climate change on hold for a night (two nights, actually, as Saturday was splendid as well). Think of it as Twenty-four Minutes at Hayward. Maybe you needed to see a very messy false start, gutting a hometown star.īut there’s helpful news: Most of it happened in a frenetic window shorter than half an inning of a Major League baseball games. Maybe you needed to see a 27-year-old American woman who still logs hours as a cashier at Chipotle, fling the hammer farther than any other woman in the world for a gold medal or three big American men sweep the medals in the shot or a tiny 35-year-old Jamaican woman win her seventh global 100-meter championship, establishing herself as maybe the best female track and field athlete in history. athletes win nine medals in a single day, four of them gold, both championship records. Or just maybe you needed to be here Sunday night at the new Hayward Field on the Day Three of the 18th Track and Field World Championships, and the first in the United States. That meets are too long and too confusing, with throwing here, and jumping there and running all around and how can anyone be expected to follow it all? Maybe there’s a sliver of truth in all of this.
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