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CONNER MANTZ WINS THE HOUSTON HALF AND BREAKS THE AMERICAN RECORD IN 59:17! 🇺🇸 Battled all the way to the finish line and just beat out Ethiopia's Addisu Gobena by a lean. WOW!

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Across the finish line and into the history books 🔥 @BryceHoppel’s 1:41.67 fourth place finish in the Olympic 800m final breaks Donavan Brazier’s 5-year-old American record by a huge 0.67 margin. Hoppel becomes the first American ever under 1:42 in the event.

RAI BENJAMIN IS THE OLYMPIC CHAMPION 🇺🇸🥇 Benjamin ( @_Kingben_ ) goes from silver in Tokyo to GOLD in Paris as he wins the men's 400m hurdles -- one of the most anticipated races at the Olympics -- in 46.46. Defending champion Karsten Warholm 🇳🇴 will take the silver this time in 47.06, and Alison dos Santos 🇧🇷 will earn a second-straight Olympic bronze in 47.26. #Paris2024 📸: Getty

USA VS THE WORLD

MUST WATCH: USA’s NOAH LYLES BEATS JAMAICA’S KISHANE THOMPSON BY FIVE ONE THOUSANDTHS OF A SECOND TO WIN THE OLYMPIC 100M TITLE — 9.79!!! WOW!!!!

UNDENIABLE 😤😤😤 Ugandan Joshua Cheptegei continues his incredible run of dominance over the 10,000m, winning his third straight global title in an Olympic record 26:43.13. Berihu Aregawi kicks hard to nab second in 26:43.46 and American Grant Fisher, who finished 5th in Tokyo, gets his first Olympic medal with a 26:43.46 bronze performance.

OLYMPIAN. NIKKI. HILTZ. 🌈 A 1500m final for the ages as Elle St. Pierre takes it out hot and EVERYBODY is in with 200m to go but it’s the undeniable @nikki_hiltz who takes the win in the second fastest 1500m ever by an American. 3:55.33 for first. Emily MacKay makes her first team in second in 3:55.90. Elle St. Pierre third in 3:55.99. And Sinclaire Johnson finishes FOURTH in 3:56.75.

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THE STREAK KEEPS GOING 🔥 @brycehoppel wins his sixth straight U.S. title in the fastest 800m of his career, clocking an astonishing 1:42.77 victory to make his second Olympic team.

NIKKI MF HILTZ

WHAT A BATTLE ⚔️⚔️ The Olympic Trials 5000m ended in fireworks, with 10,000m champ Grant Fisher battling 2023 5000m champ Abdi Nur to the line. Fisher moved last and best to claim the title in a meet record 13:08.85, with Nur hot on his heels in 13:09.01. Behind them, NCAA stars Parker Wolfe and Graham Blanks battled for third, with Wolfe coming out ahead in a personal-best 13:12.10. But Blanks is likely the one going to Paris as he has the auto qualifying standard and Wolfe won’t move up high enough to hit the quota.

BEST TRIALS RACE SO FAR!! Insane women’s steeple with everyone running PB’s. Val Constein 9:03.22 third fastest in the world this year and third fastest American ever!! Unbelievable composure from Wayment and Howard over the last three barriers to make their way to Paris!!

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DOMINANT 😤 @itsshacarri and her training partners sweep the U.S. Olympic Trials 100m final. Richardson runs a season’s best world-leading 10.71 ahead of @Melissajanae21’s lifetime best 10.80 in second and @TeeTeeTerry_’s 10.89 season’s best when it counted most in third.

AMERICA, MEET QUINCY WILSON 😱 @QuincyWilson5 runs the fastest 400m EVER by a high school boy in the first heat of the U.S. Olympic Trials, his heat-winning 44.66 bettering Darrell Robinson’s 42-year-old all-time mark of 44.69. The 16-year-old Wilson also hit the Olympic standard and is now #8 in the U.S. this year.

JOSH KERR TAKES DOWN JAKOB INGEBRIGTSEN TO 3:45.34 TO 3:45.60 The Bowerman Mile delivers on the hype.

ON TOP OF THE WORLD 🥇 Two days before her son’s first birthday, Elle St. Pierre has the race of her career, outkicking 2x World champion Gudaf Tsegay to win the @wicglasgow24 3000m in a new American record of 8:20.87.

Sad and shocking news out of Kenya. Marathon world record holder Kelvin Kiptum has died at 24 years old after a car accident along the Eldoret-Kaptagat road, according to a report from The Standard newspaper. Multiple journalists in Kenya have also reported the news. “This was a self-involved accident where one Kelvin Kiptum, the world marathon record holder, was driving his vehicle with two passengers. Kiptum and Hakizimana died on the spot and the third person was rushed to Racecourse Hospital in Eldoret,” Elgeyo Marakwet Police Commander Peter Mulinge told The Nation. The outlet reports his coach Garvais Hakizimana also died in the accident. Last year, Kiptum broke the marathon world record, running 2:00:35 in Chicago, and was preparing to run the Rotterdam Marathon in April in an attempt to break the two-hour barrier. He was also expected to be named to Kenya’s team for the Paris Olympics.