Eaton WR, Lolo makes the team & Felix and Tarmoh tied for third

Ashton Eaton went into the final event of the decathlon needing about a 2 second personal best to get the world record. The gun went off and Eaton went right to the front behind Curtid Beach and Joe Detmer the two fastest in the field. Eaton was right on pace with 300 left and coming down the home stretch beach moved over and cheered Eaton to the win and the WR, in 4:14.48. Eaton ended up with a two day score of 9039 breaking the world record by 13 points, and only the second man to break the 9000 point barrier. What I thought was cool is that all the past US Olympic Decathlon Champions were in attendance to witness it. When Ashton was done he was greeted by the now former American Record holder and 1996 Olympic Champ Dan O'Brien, and the 1976 Olympic Champ Bruce Jenner. Trey Hardee finished in second with a point total of 8383 winning the discus on day 2.

Courtesy of Dan O'Brien's Twitter

The 100 hurdles was a GREAT race with the reigning Olympic Champ Dawn Harper winning in 12.73 into a -1.6m head wind.  In second place was 2011 US Champ Kellie Wells who four years ago tore her hamstring during the olympic trials. Finally in third place was Lolo Jones who is looking for redemption after hitting the 9th hurdle in Beijing. A lot of people wrote off Lolo including myself, she hasn't had a great year up to this point but she tured it up at the right time and gets a chance to redeem herself. 


The women's 100m has brought a lot of DRAMA! The first two places are set in stone with Carmelita Jeter winning in 10.91 and Tianna Madison finishing in second running another 10.96. But third place had to go down to a photo finish between training partners Allyson Felix and Jeneba Tarmoh. Originally Tarmoh was given the nod by .001s 11.068 to 11.069. But then after further review it was determined to be a dead tie at 11.068s. So who will get the spot Tarmoh or Felix? What are the tie braking rules for this situation? Should they have a run-off for the spot?

We will find out soon what will happen.