Saturday’s qualifying race will feature past champions and medalists, and many more amateurs just happy to lace up their shoes.
Kerry Allen doesn’t have a car, so she’ll commute to her Capitol Hill job many mornings with a pair of running shoes, and other days she’ll squeeze in a few more miles circling the National Mall at lunchtime. Kelly Calway has school drop-off most mornings, followed by a full workday. So she usually waits until after bedtime to hop on a treadmill and log her miles. Kieran O’Connor also has two kids at home, so he tries to find a block of time each weekend to sneak in a quality training run.
Saturday’s race will feature Des Linden, the two-time Olympian and Boston Marathon champion, and Molly Huddle, the decorated distance runner. It will have Galen Rupp, who won the marathon bronze at the 2016 Games, and 45-year old Bernard Lagat, the ageless wonder who is somehow trying for his sixth Olympics.
But even in countries with loads of elite talent, a single, dedicated race to select an Olympic team is mostly unheard of. Each nation can choose its Olympians in any manner it wishes, provided the runners hit the international standards to qualify. Kenya and Ethiopia might have several runners technically eligible but earning a spot in the Olympics is no simple matter and many nations rely on a selection committee and arbitrary standards.
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