{"id":109,"date":"2008-07-02T00:37:51","date_gmt":"2008-07-02T07:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/milestogo.azrunning.com\/mtgcontent\/wordpress\/?p=109"},"modified":"2008-07-09T10:10:30","modified_gmt":"2008-07-09T17:10:30","slug":"2008-us-olympic-team-trials-track-and-field-day-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/azrunning.com\/milestogo\/journal\/?p=109","title":{"rendered":"2008 U.S. Olympic Team Trials &#8211; Track and Field, Day 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Day 4 of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eugene08.com\/\">2008 U.S. Olympic Team Trials &#8211; Track and Field<\/a> was highlighted by thrilling distance running events.<\/p>\n<p>Eugene-based athletes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatf.org\/news\/view.aspx?DUID=USATF_2008_06_30_22_21_16\">swept the men&#8217;s 800 meter run<\/a>, which electrified the home town crowd.<\/p>\n<p>2005 world champion Bryan Clay established a new Olympic Trials decathlon record, with 8,832 points. Both Trey Hardee (2nd, 8,534 points) and Tom Pappas (3rd, 8,511 points) scored higher than 8,500 points, to round out a strong U.S. contingent in the event.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/milestogo.azrunning.com\/mtgcontent\/gallery\/2008_Olympic_Trials_Day4\">*** Click here to view Day 4 photos from the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team Trials \u2013 Track and Field ***<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/milestogo.azrunning.com\/mtgcontent\/gallery\/albums\/2008_Olympic_Trials_Day4\/20080630_202934b_JDD.jpg\" alt=\"Andrew Wheating and the Oregon sweep of the Men's 800 meters electrified the crowd\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/milestogo.azrunning.com\/mtgcontent\/gallery\/albums\/2008_Olympic_Trials_Day4\/20080630_215547_JDD.jpg\" alt=\"Bernard Lagat makes his first Olympic team as an American citizen\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/milestogo.azrunning.com\/mtgcontent\/gallery\/albums\/2008_Olympic_Trials_Day4\/20080630_201714_JDD.jpg\" alt=\"Hazel Clark makes her 3rd U.S. Olympic team\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day 4 of the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team Trials &#8211; Track and Field was highlighted by thrilling distance running events. Eugene-based athletes swept the men&#8217;s 800 meter run, which electrified the home town crowd. 2005 world champion Bryan Clay established &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/azrunning.com\/milestogo\/journal\/?p=109\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,27,26],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-athletics","tag-andrew-wheating","tag-eugene08","tag-us-olympic-team-trials-track-and-field"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/azrunning.com\/milestogo\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/azrunning.com\/milestogo\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/azrunning.com\/milestogo\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azrunning.com\/milestogo\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azrunning.com\/milestogo\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/azrunning.com\/milestogo\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/azrunning.com\/milestogo\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azrunning.com\/milestogo\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azrunning.com\/milestogo\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}