Add Tori Bowie to the list of sprinters not looking to double at the world championships in August.
Bowie won the 100m and finished third in the 200m at the USATF Outdoor Championships, part of the TeamUSA Summer Champions Series, presented by Comcast.
That put her on the U.S. team for worlds in London in both sprints.
But Bowie, who earned Rio 100m silver and 200m bronze, was exhausted after four days of racing in Sacramento heat that eclipsed 110 degrees.
“I for sure don’t want to do the double [at worlds],” Bowie said Sunday. “I just wanted to give myself an option [to race the 100m or the 200m].”
Bowie said she and her coaches will probably decide her racing schedule for worlds in the next two to three weeks.
“More than anything I wanted to try to get this 100m right and try to achieve a gold medal somewhere,” Bowie said, according to TeamUSA.org. “I don’t have a gold medal yet individually, so that’s my main concern right now.”
If Bowie drops the 100m, Olympian Morolake Akinosun is in line to take her spot. If she drops the 200m, it’s Ariana Washington.
“I already experienced that, I did the double in Rio,” Bowie said. “I collected my two medals that I wanted to collect in both events. Right now, I’m satisfied.”
Deajah Stevens and Christian Coleman also made the U.S. team in both the 100m and 200m and are expected to compete in both events.
Meanwhile, both Olympic 200m champions — Usain Bolt and Elaine Thompson — are expected to sit out the 200m in London to focus on the 100m.
World 200m silver medalist Justin Gatlin, 2012 Olympic 200m champion Allyson Felix and LaShawn Merritt all pulled out of the 200m at USATF Outdoors, ruling out world championships doubles.
Gatlin doubled in 2015. Felix doubled in 2011 (200m and 400m) and tried to for Rio but finished fourth in the 200m at the Olympic Trials. Merritt raced the 200m and 400m in Rio.
Both Olympic 400m champions — Wayde van Niekerk of South Africa and Shaunae Miller-Uibo of the Bahamas — plan to also race the 200m at worlds.
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Birk Irving, the last man to make the U.S. Olympic ski halfpipe team last winter, started the post-Olympic season by winning the U.S. Grand Prix at Copper Mountain, Colorado.
Irving, a 23-year-old Coloradan, leaped from third place to first on his last of three runs, a 93.75-pointer highlighted by a double cork 1440. It marked Irving’s third top-level international win and his first in more than three years.
U.S. Grand Prix at Copper Mountain highlights air on NBC and Peacock on Sunday (snowboard) and next Saturday (ski halfpipe). A full broadcast schedule is here.
Freestyle skiers and snowboarders are gearing up for the Winter X Games in Aspen in late January, followed by the world championships in Georgia (the country, not the state).
The U.S. has been the strongest nation in men’s ski halfpipe since it debuted at the Olympics in 2014. David Wise won the first two gold medals. Alex Ferreira won silver and bronze at the last two Olympics. Aaron Blunck is a world champion and X Games champion.
Irving, who was fifth at the Olympics in February, beat all three of them at Copper. Ferreira placed fourth, and Wise and Blunck didn’t qualify for the eight-man final.
Irving was the lone American to win at Copper among eight events — men’s and women’s ski and snowboard big air and halfpipe.
The U.S. earned runner-up finishes in snowboard big air (Hailey Langland, Chris Corning).
Americans were shut out of the podium in the other events, notably snowboard halfpipe in the absence of the retired Shaun White and Chloe Kim, who is taking this season off from competition.
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ST. MORITZ, Switzerland — Italian skier Sofia Goggia gave a thumbs-up with her right hand after dominating the fourth women’s World Cup downhill of the season on Saturday.
Her left hand she could barely move.
Goggia won the race in impressive style, leading runner-up Ilka Stuhec of Slovenia by 0.43 seconds, a day after breaking two fingers when she hit a gate but still finished second in a downhill on the same Corviglia course.
After Friday’s accident, the two-time Olympic downhill medalist went to Milan to have surgery. The Italian ski team said a metal rod and screws were placed inside her hand to stabilize it and her hand wrapped in a cast.
Still, Goggia returned to the Swiss resort for the second downhill.
With her left hand bandaged and the glove attached to her ski pole with yellow duct tape, Goggia was the ninth starter as she seemed not visibly hampered by the injury.
“When I understood today that I could make it, I think there was no girl who was (as) happy as I was today at the start gate. It was not guaranteed that I could be at the start today,” said Goggia, adding the Italian team even considered not putting her on the start list for Saturday’s race.
“I said: ‘Are you crazy? You crazy?’ I don’t give up this way,” Goggia said.
Racing under blue skies and sunshine – in contrast to Friday’s race in snowy and foggy conditions – Goggia charged down the 2.5-kilometer course in her usual gutsy style, not holding back in bumpy turns and jumping higher and further than her rivals.
Goggia finished 0.52 seconds ahead of then-leader Kira Weidle of Germany, and waved and blew kisses to the spectators.
Weidle was later bumped into third place by Stuhec, who earned her first podium in nearly four years. The Slovenian had won the 2017 World downhill title on this course.
Elena Curtoni, who won Friday’s race, finished 1.16 seconds behind in eighth.
Goggia’s third win of the season and 20th overall was briefly threatened by Mikaela Shiffrin.
Starting 21st, the overall World Cup leader was a few hundredths faster than Goggia in the first two sections, but Shiffrin took fewer risks than the Italian in the remainder of her run and finished 0.61 behind in fourth.
“I am really happy with how these last two days have gone with downhill. It was so fun and smooth and flowing,” said Shiffrin, who improved two positions from Friday’s result, when she finished one spot behind American teammate Breezy Johnson.
On Saturday, Johnson came almost two seconds behind Goggia and finished outside the top 20.
Shiffrin was followed by three Austrian racers: Cornelia Hütter, Nina Ortlieb and Mirjam Puchner.
Shiffrin leads the overall standings with 475 points, 50 clear of Goggia and 109 ahead of Wendy Holdener. The Swiss skier finished 32nd and failed to score World Cup points.
“On the one hand I try not to count points constantly, but it is in my mind all the time,” said Shiffrin, who won her fourth overall title last season.
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