A week after the end of the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials, the dust has settled, and Team USA has three new Olympians: Parker Valby, Whittni Morgan, and Graham Blanks.
A week after the end of the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials, the dust has settled, and Team USA has three new Olympians: Parker Valby, Whittni Morgan, and Graham Blanks. Valby finished second in the women’s 10,000 meters at the Trials, but she did not have the automatic qualifying standard for the Olympics. She had to wait to learn from World Athletics if her ranking would be high enough to get her into the Games.
But when Valby decided to focus on the 10,000 meters, she opened up a room for Morgan, the fifth-place finisher, who had a high enough world ranking to go. Her coach, Diljeet Taylor, posted a touching video on Instagram on July 6 calling Morgan and asking, “How’s your French?”About her decision to focus only on the 10,000 meters, Valby wrote in a text, “In speaking with my coach, and after this long of a season, we figured it would be best to focus on one race.
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