Track news

So many things happened over the weekend in the track world. Some very good and very bad. I'll start with the good.

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University of Florida's Cory McGee will be joining Treniere Moser and Mary Cain at the IAAF World Championships in Moscow for the women's 1500m. McGee achieved the B standard by running 4:06.67 Saturday in a race at Heusden, Belgium. The B standard is 4:09.00. McGee lowered her personal best Saturday. Her personal best was 4:10.55 which was run at the Payton Jordan Invitational this current spring.

Ryan Hill achieved the A standard for the 5000m Saturday at Heusden, Belgium also. Hill ran 13:14.22 to punch his ticket to Moscow. Hill will join Bernard Lagat and Galen Rupp at the World Championships.

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Jordan Hasay will join Shalane Flanagan in Moscow for the women's 10,000m. Hasay achieved the B standard Sunday evening in Portland, Oregon by running 31:46.42. Hasay just barley missed the A standard, which is 31:45. Hasay was paced in the race Sunday by three males. Tara Erdmann, who finished third at the USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships, has until July 20 to run the A standard to make the trip to Moscow. If Erdmann fails to run the standard, Amy Hastings who finished fourth at the USA Outdoor Championships in June will go to Moscow. As Hastings has already has the A standard.

Now the bad, USA Outdoor Track 100m and 200m champion Tyson Gay tested positive for a banned substance. Gay said he will pull out of the World Championships in Moscow. Gay was notified by U.S. Anti-Doping Agency last week that a sample from May 16 came back positive. His B sample will be tested possibly this week. Besides Gay, two Jamaican athletes had also failed drug tests: Asafa Powell and Sherone Simpson.