While all eyes in the running community are on the World Championships for the next 10 days, time is ticking for one item of significance for the American marathoning community.
have qualified with marathons, but the window for half marathon qualifying hasn’t opened yet.
That system is in jeopardy, however. It stems from the International Olympic Committee—which is trying to reduce the size of the marathon fields at the Olympics, said Blake Boldon, the men’s long distance running committee chair for USATF. The men’s marathon field in 2016 was 150 runners. For 2024, the IOC wants it to be around 80. In other words, as popular as the marathon is worldwide, the IOC wants to reduce the size of the event by 46 percent.
The men’s side, however, is not as deep as the women’s. If only three or four men were to have met World Athletics’ Olympic qualifying time and be ranked highly enough, would it be worth holding a Trials to determine which three go to the Games?
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