Wariner, Lagat, Gay, Felix headline US team
NEW YORK - An experienced athletics team featuring seven current world champions and a host of medals favourites will represent the United States in next month's Beijing Olympics, USA Track & Field announced on Monday. The 126-member squad includes Athens 2004 Olympic gold medallists Jeremy Wariner (400m) an
d Shawn Crawford (200m), double world champions Tyson Gay and Bernard Lagat and individual world winners Wariner, Allyson Felix (women's 200m), Brad Walker (pole vault), Reese Hoffa (shot put) and Kerron Clement (400m hurdles).
Collectively, the team has 15 Olympic medallists, 31 world championships medallist and 10 US record holders.
The latter include javelin thrower Breaux Gree
r who was added to the team under a USATF rule that allows the selection of an injured athlete who competed in the US Olympic Trials but did not reach the final and has the qualifying standard. Greer, who has a shoulder injury, finished 17th in qualifying. USATF president Bill Roe called the squad one of the United States' best.
"This Olympic team is one of our strongest ever, with more medal-winning experience in a wider range of events, from sprints to distances and field events, than we've had in many decades," Roe said in a statement.
"While it would take an incredible performance to match our medal counts of recent championships, we certainly feel that this team has what it takes to again top the medal tables."
The United States won 25 athletics medals at the 2004 Athens Games, eight of them gold. It had a championships-high 26 medals at the 2007 worlds, including 14 gold.
The USA TeamMEN
100m: Tyson Gay, Walter Dix, Darvis Patton.
200m: Dix, Shawn Crawford, Wallace Spearmon Jr.
d Shawn Crawford (200m), double world champions Tyson Gay and Bernard Lagat and individual world winners Wariner, Allyson Felix (women's 200m), Brad Walker (pole vault), Reese Hoffa (shot put) and Kerron Clement (400m hurdles).Collectively, the team has 15 Olympic medallists, 31 world championships medallist and 10 US record holders.
The latter include javelin thrower Breaux Gree
r who was added to the team under a USATF rule that allows the selection of an injured athlete who competed in the US Olympic Trials but did not reach the final and has the qualifying standard. Greer, who has a shoulder injury, finished 17th in qualifying. USATF president Bill Roe called the squad one of the United States' best."This Olympic team is one of our strongest ever, with more medal-winning experience in a wider range of events, from sprints to distances and field events, than we've had in many decades," Roe said in a statement.
"While it would take an incredible performance to match our medal counts of recent championships, we certainly feel that this team has what it takes to again top the medal tables."
The United States won 25 athletics medals at the 2004 Athens Games, eight of them gold. It had a championships-high 26 medals at the 2007 worlds, including 14 gold.
The USA TeamMEN
100m: Tyson Gay, Walter Dix, Darvis Patton.
200m: Dix, Shawn Crawford, Wallace Spearmon Jr.
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