{"id":112,"date":"2008-07-05T23:44:33","date_gmt":"2008-07-06T06:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/milestogo.azrunning.com\/mtgcontent\/wordpress\/?p=112"},"modified":"2008-07-09T10:15:37","modified_gmt":"2008-07-09T17:15:37","slug":"2008-us-olympic-team-trials-track-and-field-day-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/azrunning.com\/milestogo\/journal\/?p=112","title":{"rendered":"2008 U.S. Olympic Team Trials &#8211; Track and Field, Day 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The final weekend of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eugene08.com\/\">2008 U.S. Olympic Team Trials &#8211; Track and Field<\/a> began under overcast skies, with the opening round of the 100 meter hurdles competition.<\/p>\n<p>Much of the day&#8217;s action occurred in the field events, with the women&#8217;s shot put and hammer throw taking center stage. Two time NCAA champion Jessica Pressley from Arizona State University <a href=\"http:\/\/thesundevils.cstv.com\/sports\/c-track\/recaps\/070508aab.html\">placed seventh in the shot put<\/a>, while teammate Sarah Stevens placed 11th. In the final running event of the afternoon, Anthony Famiglietti <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatf.org\/news\/view.aspx?DUID=USATF_2008_07_05_15_34_26\">set out at meet record pace in the 3,000 meter steeplechase<\/a>, to make his second U.S. Olympic team.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/milestogo.azrunning.com\/mtgcontent\/gallery\/2008_Olympic_Trials_Day7\">*** Click here to view Day 7 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_Day7\/20080705_145211a_JDD.jpg\" alt=\"Fam led the 3,000 meter steeplechase from the gun\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The final weekend of the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team Trials &#8211; Track and Field began under overcast skies, with the opening round of the 100 meter hurdles competition. Much of the day&#8217;s action occurred in the field events, with the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/azrunning.com\/milestogo\/journal\/?p=112\">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":[40,27,39,26],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-athletics","tag-anthony-famiglietti","tag-eugene08","tag-jessica-pressley","tag-us-olympic-team-trials-track-and-field"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/azrunning.com\/milestogo\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112","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=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/azrunning.com\/milestogo\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/azrunning.com\/milestogo\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azrunning.com\/milestogo\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azrunning.com\/milestogo\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}