{"id":533,"date":"2023-07-18T07:02:28","date_gmt":"2023-07-18T07:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportshub.com\/?p=533"},"modified":"2023-07-18T07:02:32","modified_gmt":"2023-07-18T07:02:32","slug":"united-states-sweeps-mens-100-at-track-and-field-world-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportshub.com\/united-states-sweeps-mens-100-at-track-and-field-world-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"United States Sweeps Men\u2019s 100 at Track and Field World Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

EUGENE, Ore. (AP)\u2014Before the race, U.S. fighter jets zoomed over the stadium. Then, down on the track, Americans flashed a different kind of speed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fred Kerley led the charge Saturday on an All-American night for track and field, headlining the first U.S. sweep of the sport\u2019s marquee event, the men\u2019s 100, in 31 years at the worlds. It placed a red-white-and-blue stamp on Day 2 of the first championships held on American soil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe said we were going to do it and we did it,\u201d Kerley said in the on-track interview, moments after the crowd had finished chanting \u201cUSA! USA! USA!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kerley powered through the line to finish in 9.86 seconds and beat both the leaning Marvin Bracy and the 2021 U.S. champion, Trayvon Bromell, by less than 0.02 seconds. The difference between second and third was 0.002.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It marked the first American sweep at the world meet since Carl Lewis, Leroy Burrell and Dennis Mitchell went gold-silver-bronze in 1991 in Tokyo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s amazing,\u201d said Burrell, who was on hand. \u201cAnd honestly, I wouldn\u2019t have expected less from the group. This is one of the best groups of U.S. sprinters we\u2019ve had in years.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This All-American burst of speed came moments after the jets presaged the evening\u2019s main event by blazing over Hayward Stadium, the still-cozy confines on the University of Oregon campus that were renovated to bring the championships to the U.S. for the first time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The race itself brought back memories of times when the U.S. dominated the track game in the same way Jamaica and Usain Bolt did for nearly a decade starting in 2008. Some might call that the good old days\u2014Lewis was a star and Burrell and few others certainly filled the stands. That was also a time of the sullen track superstar and an era marred by doping.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This one felt more like a bunch of comeback stories and \u201cI told ya so\u2019s.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s amazing to be around the greats,\u201d Kerley said. \u201cThey did it in \u201991, and now we did it in \u201922.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kerley, a 27-year-old Texan, came into Eugene as the favorite\u2014the only sprinter to crack 9.8 seconds this year. His reward is a title in an event he didn\u2019t start investing time in until the leadup to last year\u2019s Olympics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In an interview on former U.S. sprinter Rae Edwards\u2019s webcast earlier this year, Kerley explained the reason for the move down in distance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAt the end of the day, nobody really comes to watch anything besides \u2018The Fastest Man in the World,\u2019\u201d he said. \u201cSo if you ask me what I want to be, I want to be the Fastest Man in the World.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now he is\u2014and part of the fastest team in the world, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The runner-up, Bracy, was a scholarship football player who left Florida State to pursue track, then went back to the gridiron for a couple of unsuccessful tryouts in the NFL. Now, he has a silver medal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Source: www.si.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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