{"id":113,"date":"2008-07-07T01:00:56","date_gmt":"2008-07-07T08:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/milestogo.azrunning.com\/mtgcontent\/wordpress\/?p=113"},"modified":"2008-07-31T16:13:06","modified_gmt":"2008-07-31T23:13:06","slug":"2008-us-olympic-team-trials-track-and-field-day-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/azrunning.com\/milestogo\/journal\/?p=113","title":{"rendered":"2008 U.S. Olympic Team Trials &#8211; Track and Field, Day 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jenn Stuczynski\u00a0captivated the audience, when she <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatf.org\/news\/view.aspx?duid=USATF_2008_07_06_19_08_45\">set a new American Record for the women&#8217;s pole vault<\/a>, on the final day of competition in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eugene08.com\/\">2008 U.S. Olympic Team Trials &#8211; Track and Field<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On the track, Lolo Jones benefited from a strong tailwind, to run the 2nd fastest 100 meter hurdles race recorded under any conditions. In the &#8216;metric mile,&#8217; Shannon Rowbury won in dominant fashion, while 5,000 meter champion Bernard Lagat repeated his 1,500 &#8211; 5,000 meter sweep from last year&#8217;s World Championships.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/milestogo.azrunning.com\/mtgcontent\/gallery\/2008_Olympic_Trials_Day8\">*** Click here to view Day 8 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_Day8\/20080706_175439_JDD.jpg\" alt=\"Fans react to Jenn Stuczynski's new American Record\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/milestogo.azrunning.com\/mtgcontent\/gallery\/albums\/2008_Olympic_Trials_Day8\/20080706_160939_JDD.jpg\" alt=\"Shannon Rowbury celebrates her win in the 1,500 meter run\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/milestogo.azrunning.com\/mtgcontent\/gallery\/albums\/2008_Olympic_Trials_Day8\/20080706_174609d_JDD.jpg\" alt=\"Lolo Jones ran the fastest 100 meter hurdles race ever recorded by an American\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/milestogo.azrunning.com\/mtgcontent\/gallery\/albums\/2008_Olympic_Trials_Day8\/20080706_175643_JDD.jpg\" alt=\"Bernard Lagat repeated his 1,500 - 5,000 meter wins from last year's World Championships\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jenn Stuczynski\u00a0captivated the audience, when she set a new American Record for the women&#8217;s pole vault, on the final day of competition in the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team Trials &#8211; Track and Field. On the track, Lolo Jones benefited from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/azrunning.com\/milestogo\/journal\/?p=113\">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":[43,27,41,42,44,26],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-athletics","tag-bernard-lagat","tag-eugene08","tag-jenn-stuczynski","tag-lolo-jones","tag-shannon-rowbury","tag-us-olympic-team-trials-track-and-field"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/azrunning.com\/milestogo\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","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=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/azrunning.com\/milestogo\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/azrunning.com\/milestogo\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azrunning.com\/milestogo\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azrunning.com\/milestogo\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}