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Hamilton Spectator
19-07-2025
- Sport
- Hamilton Spectator
Canada's Marco Arop races to second in 800 metres in Diamond League
LONDON - Canadian middle-distance racer Marco Arop finished second in a Diamond League 800 metres Saturday. The 26-year-old from Edmonton posted a season-best one minute 42.22 seconds at London Stadium behind Kenyan victor Emmanuel Wanyonyi's 1:42. Britain's Max Burgin placed third in 1:42.36. Arop, the reigning world champion and last year's Olympic silver medallist in Paris, led at the final turn Saturday, but Olympic champion Wanyonyi reeled the Canadian in down the stretch. 'This is such a great place to race, and it lifted us all (to) produce a really competitive and close race today,' Arop said. 'I was happy to run a season best. I just trust in my coach's plan and it seems to be paying off.' Arop bested his previous fastest time this season of 1:42.73 in Monaco on July 11 when he finished fifth. Wanyonyi, who set a meet record in London, aims to take the world crown from Arop in September in Tokyo. 'I am so excited to win this race. That is what I came here to do, and it is great to set a meeting record too,' Wanyonyi said. 'It was a great race to be a part of. Preparation has been going well after Monaco, so this one was important today. My training right now is at 80 per cent, so I will be upping the training in the next few weeks and over the next races before Tokyo.' This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 19 2025.
Winnipeg Free Press
19-07-2025
- Sport
- Winnipeg Free Press
Canada's Marco Arop races to second in 800 metres in Diamond League
LONDON – Canadian middle-distance racer Marco Arop finished second in a Diamond League 800 metres Saturday. The 26-year-old from Edmonton posted a season-best one minute 42.22 seconds at London Stadium behind Kenyan victor Emmanuel Wanyonyi's 1:42. Britain's Max Burgin placed third in 1:42.36. Arop, the reigning world champion and last year's Olympic silver medallist in Paris, led at the final turn Saturday, but Olympic champion Wanyonyi reeled the Canadian in down the stretch. 'This is such a great place to race, and it lifted us all (to) produce a really competitive and close race today,' Arop said. 'I was happy to run a season best. I just trust in my coach's plan and it seems to be paying off.' Arop bested his previous fastest time this season of 1:42.73 in Monaco on July 11 when he finished fifth. Wanyonyi, who set a meet record in London, aims to take the world crown from Arop in September in Tokyo. 'I am so excited to win this race. That is what I came here to do, and it is great to set a meeting record too,' Wanyonyi said. 'It was a great race to be a part of. Preparation has been going well after Monaco, so this one was important today. My training right now is at 80 per cent, so I will be upping the training in the next few weeks and over the next races before Tokyo.' This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 19 2025.
Yahoo
17-07-2025
- Yahoo
What the brutal killing of a female police officer reveals about Kenya's femicide crisis
Editor's Note: This story is part of As Equals, CNN's ongoing series on gender inequality. For information about how the series is funded and more, check out our FAQs. Roy Wanyonyi steps into the dark and dusty living room, its armchairs still carefully adorned in white lace covers, though it has been many months since guests sat here. The last time he and his wife, Maximilla Mwanga, were in this home in Webuye, an industrial town in western Kenya, was a little over a year ago. It was also the last time he saw his daughter, Tiffany Wanyonyi, alive. Like her father, Tiffany was a police officer. She was stationed in the capital, Nairobi, where she lived with her two children. In March 2024, after her grandmother passed away, Tiffany returned to her childhood home to attend the funeral. After the service, Tiffany appeared in good spirits, reminiscing about her grandmother's long life before leaving the gathering with her husband. She never made it back to Nairobi. The next morning, Wanyonyi woke up to the most devastating phone call of his life. It was the local police commander: Tiffany had been murdered. 'My head just went dizzy,' Wanyonyi told CNN. 'I didn't believe…' he added, struggling to find the words to describe his shock, even now. At the morgue, Wanyonyi and Mwanga, Tiffany's stepmother, faced their worst nightmare. 'The way I found my daughter… was not easy,' Mwanga said, her voice quivering. 'She was in two pieces: her head and the body.' Tiffany's husband, Jackson Ololtele, is now awaiting trial, charged with her murder. He has pleaded not guilty. In a country facing a surge in violence against women, Tiffany's case underlines that even female police officers are not immune. Last year was the deadliest for women in Kenya, with 170 reported killed (including 127 murders labeled as femicides), according to Africa Data Hub in partnership with Odipodev and Africa Uncensored, which analyzed news reports and court records going back almost a decade. Already, 2025 is shaping up to be just as deadly. Between January and March 2025 alone, 129 women were killed according to Kenya's National Police Service, local media reported. The police service wouldn't confirm this figure or previous years to CNN and campaigners have argued a lack of centralized data is part of the problem in tackling femicide. The violence is so pervasive that several police officers working on 'gender desks' – a special unit established a decade ago to address Kenya's gender-based violence – told CNN of female colleagues who had been victims of gender-based violence themselves. Such officers are often silenced by stigma, burdened by trauma and failed by the very system they serve, according to experts and female police officers who spoke to CNN. A dedicated counselling and chaplaincy department is available for officers, Kenya Police spokesperson, Muchiri Nyaga, told CNN. The force would not comment further on perceived failures in the system. After her death, Tiffany's parents moved from her childhood home in Webuye. In the garden today, a simple cross and plaque mark her grave. Strong women and a culture of silence Inside their new home, Wanyonyi looks at a photograph of Tiffany in her police uniform, his fingers lingering over her khaki jacket. 'It was her graduation day,' he said of his first-born child, his eyes crinkling fondly at the memory of watching the ceremony, which was broadcast on national television. It was also one of the proudest moments for their family of officers – Roy's second-born son is an intelligence officer. But behind these proud moments were deep struggles. Tiffany's uniform was no protection from violence in the home, her parents told CNN. She often clashed with her husband over his refusal to seek employment or provide financially for their children, said Wanyonyi and Mwanga. When asked if his daughter's job as a police officer offered her protection from domestic abuse, Wanyonyi shook his head. Tiffany's husband didn't see her as a police officer, he said. He saw her 'as his wife.' Wanyonyi recalled how after one particularly violent confrontation he felt compelled to intervene. He reported the assault to the police. But just a few days later, the couple reconciled – and Tiffany, being the named victim, withdrew the case. When Mwanga asked Tiffany why she withdrew the case, she said: ''Mommy, that's the man I love.'' Njeri Wa Migwi – a domestic violence survivor and leading activist in Kenya's fight against femicide – has heard countless stories like this over the years, including from women, like Tiffany, who are often seen as pillars of support for victims. 'The saddest bit about my work,' Wa Migwi told CNN, 'is that even the person you are reporting to could be a victim of gender-based violence,' referring to female police officers. Because Kenyan law requires that any crime be reported within the jurisdiction where it occurred, many female officers choose to remain silent themselves, afraid of the shame and stigma they might face from their own colleagues in reporting their own abuse. Tiffany's parents recounted how barely a year into her service as a police officer, she confided to them about her deep humiliation whenever her husband publicly quarreled with and abused her –– often in full view of her colleagues, both at the station and in the staff residential quarters. In her 20 years in the police service, Consolata – whose name has been changed to protect her identity – has seen many fellow female officers go to extreme lengths to hide their abuse. She recalled one colleague, a fellow officer, increasingly withdrawing from work, and later, turning to alcohol to cope. 'When I pressed her to explain (her change in behavior), she simply said: 'I'm scared when darkness comes. I don't want to go to the house,'' Consolata told CNN. The officer later revealed to Consolata that she was being sexually assaulted by a senior inspector, who in public posed as an attentive mentor. The officer did not report the abuse and the Kenya Police Service would not comment on the incident. Another fellow female officer repeatedly turned up to work with injuries, Consolata said, and explained them as accidents. Only after neighbors raised concerns did the truth emerge: She was being abused by her husband. The female officer did press charges against her husband. Though eventually she opted to drop the case, leave the relationship, and request a transfer to a different station. Consolata isn't surprised by her colleagues' initial silence. 'Most officers are reluctant to speak up because of societal expectations,' she added. The high-risk nature of female police officers' work – from confronting criminals to handling dangerous investigations – means they are often seen as 'strong women,' a perception that pressures many of them to hide any signs of vulnerability. But keeping up this public persona has its dangers, Consolata said. If female police officers entrusted with seeking justice for women and girls are afraid to speak out about their own abuse, 'how can someone be sure that their case will be taken seriously?' Consolata said, adding: 'I think it shakes the public's confidence.' Manning –– or Womaning –– Kenya's gender desks Meanwhile, the number of female police officers is declining, according to Fatuma Mohamed, Commissioner at the Kenya-based Independent Policing Oversight Authority (IPOA). She cites a report from UN Women which found that in March 2023, of the 106,830 Kenyan police officers, just 7,457 were women – roughly 6.9%. And yet nowhere are female officers needed more than on the gender desk. In Kenyan police stations, this is the first port of call for women and girls reporting gender-based violence –– and the face they are greeted with matters. Declining numbers of female police officers means that gender desks are sometimes solely manned by male officers, which can feel intimidating for women reporting intimate partner violence. 'When it comes to sexual violation,' explained Dorcas Amakobe, executive director of the sports development organization Moving the Goalposts, there are things that 'from a cultural perspective, a young woman or a parent would feel uncomfortable telling a man.' Public trust in the police has already taken a hit amid recent high-profile cases of alleged police brutality, including at most recent anti-government protests earlier this month where at least 31 people died and hundreds were arrested, according to the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR). While these clashes with police have been dominating headlines, campaigners against the femicide crisis are still working to keep their issue in the spotlight. That includes how reports of gender-based violence are handled by the police. For female victims of abuse, coming forward to report the crime might be more comfortable for women 'when you find someone who looks like you,' Amakobe said of the need for female officers at gender desks. Gender desk officer Rehema Fondo told CNN, 'We hear stories every single day, sometimes five cases in one shift. It's overwhelming,' of incidents which might span harassment, assault and rape. 'At the end of the day, we're human too. We need psychological support.' In response, Kenya Police spokesperson, Muchiri Nyaga, pointed to the force's counselling service. Though he did acknowledge to CNN there is a growing concern within the force over the limited number of female officers in general – which he hopes to tackle with a recruitment drive later this year. Empty words? Meanwhile Kenyan activists have criticized the government's disconnect between its rhetoric on femicide and its actions. Late last year, Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi launched the 'Safe Homes, Safe Spaces' initiative, which aimed to address gender-based violence in the country. But his message was quickly overshadowed. The following day, the police cracked down on nationwide protesters rallying against femicide. 'In Kenya, it feels like the right to assemble is no longer protected by the constitution,' Wa Migwi told CNN, recalling how she was tear-gassed while peacefully attending the protest. 'We were simply crying out — stop killing us. And yet, in that very moment, for demanding our rights, we were beaten, humiliated, tear-gassed.' Kenya's principal secretary for Internal Security and National Administration, Dr. Raymond Omollo, described the police's actions as 'unfortunate,' acknowledging that while the intent was to maintain order, the execution was 'regrettable.' Wa Migwi believes the Kenyan government should declare the femicide crisis a national disaster, much like it did with the HIV/AIDS pandemic in the late 1990s. After it was declared a national disaster, 'they put their resources into (fighting) it,' she added. Other human rights experts have called out the country's entrenched patriarchal norms and weak law enforcement, which they say has deepened the femicide crisis. In January, President William Ruto acknowledged in a special issue of The Kenya Gazette that there were 'existing gaps in prevention, response, investigations, prosecution, data management, and survivor support systems in GBV and femicide cases.' He committed to enhanced legal, investigative, and institutional reforms including a specialized task force, police and hospital gender desks, and support for survivors — while also calling on citizens and communities to take moral responsibility. But for Wanyonyi and Mwanga –– who are now left to raise Tiffany's two children –– these government pledges need to be followed with real change. Wanyonyi called for an urgent 'way to finish it (the violence epidemic),' adding that women and girls are being 'slaughtered, being killed.' The femicide crisis 'leaves scars' on so many 'innocent people,' he said. If you, or someone you know, is being affected by domestic violence, a worldwide list of directories is provided by UN Women. You can also find a list of national agencies on The Pixel Project. Credits Reporter Ian Wafula Editors Sheena McKenzie, Kara Fox Visual Editor Carlotta Dotto Senior Video Producer Ladan Anoushfar Video Editor Estefania Rodriguez Camera Simon Mwai Saitabao Kaiyare Assistant producer Mumo Liku Photo Editor Toby Hancock Coordinating Producer Marta Simonella
New York Times
07-04-2025
- Sport
- New York Times
Grand Slam Track debuts with some solid moments and one big lingering question
How deep is your appetite for track competition? That's the question at the heart of Grand Slam Track, American Olympic legend Michael Johnson's new venture. Johnson, who founded Grand Slam Track (GST), is among those who believe that there's a demand for more top-quality racing in a world that craves more sports. His idea — a four-event season with 48 of the best track athletes committed to appearing at all of them — is meant to create rivalries and storylines, even if records aren't being broken and not all of the best athletes are on hand. Advertisement The Diamond League — track's top seasonal circuit — is spread out across the world, with most runners skipping several events. With GST, race fans will know that, barring injury, the same runners they watched duel this weekend in Kingston, Jamaica, also will be there in Miami next month and in Philadelphia at the end of May and in the finale in Los Angeles in June. This weekend in Jamaica was the first test of his theory. It came with the natural hiccups most start-ups experience in their first time in the spotlight, a fair share of promising highlights and still a long way to go. 'We always play this game, fantasy track and field, when we go out for runs,' GST analyst and Olympic champion Matt Centrowitz said Saturday after the men's 1,500 meters. 'What if this guy moved up (to a longer distance)? What if this guy moved down? We got a chance to see what happened (here).' That's the unique part of this format — forcing runners to step outside of their comfort zones — and the key to GST's long-term staying power. Each 'Slam,' as the weekend-long event is known, consists of 96 runners, 48 men and 48 women, divided into three general disciplines (sprints, distance and hurdles) with two races of different styles in each discipline. (Read more about how it all works here.) So you get situations like American Gabby Thomas, the 200-meter Olympic champion, and the Dominican Republic's Marileidy Paulino, the 400-meter gold medalist in Paris, competing against each other across both races. This helps create storylines throughout the weekend. The men's 1,500 meters on Saturday was billed as a showdown between star rivals Cole Hocker, Josh Kerr and Yared Nuguse — the trio that finished in that order on the Olympic podium. But Kenya's Emmanuel Wanyonyi, who hadn't competed in a 1,500 since 2022, beat them all in Kingston. Advertisement It was one of the best moments of the weekend, but it also didn't end there because all four of them were coming back Sunday for the second race in the short distance category — the 800 meters, in which Wanyonyi is the defending Olympic champion. (Wanyonyi finished second in the 800 to win the weekend title.) We all know Emmanuel Wanyonyi can close! The 800m Olympic champion kicked past a historic field in the final stretch to take the 1500m win. #GSTKingston — Grand Slam Track (@GrandSlamTrack) April 6, 2025 The format also adds some intrigue further down the field. A battle for fourth or fifth place, which might not get you excited in an all-or-nothing Olympic or world championship race, carries more meaning here. Those places gained or lost in a runner's less preferred discipline could make the difference between winning the weekend's title and the $100,000 prize that comes with it. The format has some oddities, too. The 200 meters is counted as both the longer 'short' sprint and the shorter 'long' sprint, so runners who specialize in that are split up depending on whether they'd prefer to run the 100 or the 400 along with it. The second race for the hurdlers is just the non-hurdles version of the same distance (either 100 or 400 meters), but all the 100- and 400-meter flat specialists are racing in the sprint categories. The weekend produced some strong times, especially for the time of year. American Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone set a record for April — a time when athletes are typically not yet in peak form — with her 52.76 seconds in the 400-meter hurdles on Friday. The men's 1,500 delivered on its star power. There were also plenty of results that will test a fan's attention span. The men's 5,000 meters on Friday, won by American Grant Fisher, was a light jog (by elite distance runner standards, anyway) for 11.5 laps before a mad dash to the finish. Fisher's winning time of 14 minutes, 39 seconds was nearly two minutes off his personal best and 1:34 slower than the men's Olympic standard. The winning times in three of those second 'hurdle' races wouldn't have made it out of the qualifying heats at an Olympics or world championships meet. Johnson has said that times don't matter. The emphasis is on beating your opponents, not breaking records. He's right in the context of the event he's created, but whether that concept will captivate viewers feels like the question that will define the success of Grand Slam Track. Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone is back like she never left with a decisive 400m hurdles win at Grand Slam Track. 💥 📺 Peacock — NBC Olympics & Paralympics (@NBCOlympics) April 5, 2025 Some events were notably absent from the major stars that define them. Olympic champion Noah Lyles, who resisted overtures to join GST, and Jamaican silver medalist Kishane Thompson were not in the men's 100-meter field. American star Sha'Carri Richardson also didn't sign up for GST, and only one of the eight Olympic women's 100-meter finalists was in the field (American Melissa Jefferson-Wooden, the bronze medalist in Paris, who won the race Saturday). Still, all but one event from the Olympic program that was also featured in Jamaica had at least one Paris medalist in the field. Advertisement 'There is nothing that you can dislike about Grand Slam Track and what Michael Johnson has done here,' ESPN alum John Anderson, who helmed GST's studio-style coverage from an on-field set, declared early during Saturday's broadcast. It was said with a dash of Anderson's typical tongue-in-cheek tone, but it was one of many instances of over-cheerleading for the new league, which is not surprising from broadcasters getting paid by that league. Anderson also occasionally used that same tone to critique the action. When highlights of the underwhelming men's 5,000 came on during Friday's postgame show, only showing the last-lap sprint and not the early-race slog, Anderson quipped, 'Oh good, we're picking it up late.' But overall, the tone tried hard to convince you that this is the best thing to happen to track. Olympic champions Sanya Richards-Ross and Centrowitz served as on-set analysts. Two of their best moments came on Friday. Richards-Ross explained why it was impressive that Dalilah Muhammad finished second in Lane 2 in the women's 400-meter hurdles (the sharper turns of the inner lanes can be tougher to handle while maintaining speed), and Centrowitz explained how capping the field for the long-distance races at eight runners, when it's much more than that, can change that race. Both were insightful points, at least for the more casual fans of the sport, but they came near the end of the broadcast, more than 20 minutes after the final race had ended. That sort of commentary might've been better — and more visible — right before or after the races. The BBC's Steve Cram called the races in typically excellent fashion. Race analyst Anson Henry had some good moments, including immediately noting on Saturday how American Jenna Prandini, who was a late addition to the field, put herself in position for an unlikely $100,000 by finishing second in the 100 meters ahead of her specialty race on Sunday, the 200 meters. (Jefferson-Wooden went on to win the 200 and the title.) Advertisement The wait time between races was typical of track meets — about 10-12 minutes, on average — but with no field events unfolding simultaneously, the burden was on the broadcast to bridge those gaps. On the Peacock stream, that time was largely filled with dead air and ads for Jamaica. In all three days, there were fewer than 30 minutes of live action in a nearly three-hour broadcast window. There were several uneven production moments, and the time in between races could be filled better, but the races were smooth and the features interviewing the athletes showed their personalities in more depth than you typically see in an Olympic broadcast. The Kingston National Stadium was largely empty as action began Friday. It filled in some as the night went on, and the weekend appeared to bring better crowds, but the entire backstretch of the stadium was sparsely populated throughout. Filling a 35,000-seat stadium for an experimental track event may not have been realistic, but the optics were not good, and the turnout in the world capital of track was disappointing even to Johnson. 'We would love to see more spectators here, you know?' Johnson said, according to the BBC. 'We think we'll get that; we think that'll happen. But the crowd was engaged, and that's what's important.' The next event is from May 2-4 at the Ansin Sports Complex in Miramar, Fla., which seats only around 5,000. But the Philadelphia event at the end of May is at Franklin Field, which seats more than 50,000 at full capacity. GST will certainly hope these rivalries take shape and all these American stars in the field bring a bigger audience in the States. Johnson and his team have us talking about track in April, three years before the next Summer Olympics. That was part of the point of all this, and it's an intriguing step toward bringing track more into the casual fan's radar, at least in the Americas. Advertisement GST can't replicate the stakes of the Olympics or the world championships. But it has created a world with its stakes and has proved an appealing option for several of the sport's stars. It's succeeding in getting racers in front of fans at a time of year when they usually aren't. For example, McLaughlin-Levrone, one of the biggest stars in track, and fellow American Kenny Bednarek hadn't raced since September. GST creates four new opportunities to see them and others, including three for U.S. fans on home soil. Will it stick? Will you want to come back each month to watch McLaughlin-Levrone rout a field that can't compete with her? There were times this weekend — when Wanyonyi taunted Naguse as he won the 1,500; when Thomas collapsed across the finish line after finishing second in the 400 to clinch the title — where the concept shined and you could see it working. There's also a lot of room to improve, and the lingering question at the heart of it all: Will the competition be compelling enough if the times aren't lightning-fast? (Top photo of Emmanuel Wanyonyi: Ricardo Makyn / AFP via Getty Images)
NBC Sports
06-04-2025
- Sport
- NBC Sports
Gabby Thomas crowned Grand Slam Track champion with personal best 400m
Olympic 200m gold medalist Gabby Thomas joined the first group of Grand Slam Track champions after running a personal best 400m on Saturday in Kingston, Jamaica. Thomas' runner-up in the 400m on Saturday, combined with her 200m victory Friday, gave her the Grand Slam meet title for her long sprints group. Olympic silver medalist Salwa Eid Naser of Bahrain won the 400m in 48.67 seconds, the fastest time ever run before the month of July. Thomas held off Marileidy Paulino of the Dominican Republic, the Olympic 400m gold medalist, for runner-up in 49.14. Thomas took 54 hundredths off her personal best of 49.68 from 2019. GRAND SLAM TRACK: Full Results | Broadcast Schedule 'I'm not sure I've ever been more tired in my life,' she said on the broadcast. 'Going into that, I knew that was going to be one of the hardest races of my life, just because of the talent in the field.' Thomas is now the seventh-fastest American in history in the 400m. She was already the second-fastest American in history in the 200m (PB 21.60). Earlier, Olympic 800m gold medalist Emmanuel Wanyonyi of Kenya won the 1500m over all of the Olympic 1500m medalists. Wanyonyi, the joint-second-fastest 800m runner in history, ran 3:35.18 in the longer distance. He overtook all three Olympic 1500m medalists on the last lap — first gold medalist Cole Hocker, followed in the final straight by silver medalist Josh Kerr and then bronze medalist Yared Nuguse. Wanyonyi has a pedigree over the longer distance. He was the road mile world record holder for five months in 2024 (3:54.6). The 1500m medalists can deliver payback to Wanyonyi on Sunday as they all return for the 800m on the last day of the meet (3 p.m. ET, Peacock). Grand Slam Track is a new series of meets for sprinters, hurdlers and distance runners. Each athlete races in two different events over a three-day meet. There are four Grand Slam meets — Kingston, followed by Miami (May 2-4), Philadelphia (May 30-June 1) and Los Angeles (June 27-29), all live on Peacock. Athletes are divided into six event groups for each Slam: short sprints (racing the 100m and 200m), short hurdles (100mH and 100m or 110mH and 100m), long sprints (200m/400m), long hurdles (400mH/400m), short distance (800m/1500m) and long distance (3000m/5000m). There are 24 men's 'Racers' and 24 women's 'Racers' who signed up for all four Grand Slams — four for each event group. For each individual Slam, men's and women's 'Challengers' fill out the rest of the fields for every eight-athlete event group. Racers who have to withdraw from meets are replaced by additional Challengers. Athletes earn points based on their two results, which determine champions for each event group for every Slam. Points are distributed from first through eighth place in each race as follows: 12-8-6-5-4-3-2-1. The winner of each Slam event group earns $100,000 in prize money. Eighth place gets $10,000. One overall men's season champion and one overall women's season champion will be crowned at the end of the season. Also Saturday, American Kenny Bednarek completed a sweep of the short sprints, adding the 200m to his 100m title from Friday. Bednarek, a two-time Olympic 200m silver medalist, clocked 20.07 seconds. 'Came out here and said I wanted to dominate,' he said. 'That's what I did.' In the long sprints group, Brit Matthew Hudson-Smith won Saturday's 200m in 20.77 seconds after placing second in Friday's 400m behind American Chris Bailey. Bailey was fifth in the 200m, so Hudson-Smith is the Grand Slam champion. American Dylan Beard, who gained fame last year for balancing track with working at Walmart, won the 110m hurdles in 13.29 to move closer to a possible $100,000 payday. Beard's short hurdles group finishes up with a flat 100m on Sunday. American Tia Jones took the 100m hurdles in 12.63, upsetting the last two Olympic gold medalists — Jasmine Camacho-Quinn (third, 12.70) and Masai Russell (fifth, 12.78). That group also has a flat 100m on Sunday. Nick Zaccardi,
