— USATF Indoor Championships —
Volume 8, No. 07 March 03, 2009 — USATF Indoor Championships — by Elliott Denman ries paychecks and put a positive meet-ending ting off to a perfect start and cruising home Roxbury Crossing, Massachusetts, Febru- spin on a USATF Indoor Championships that ahead of Hyleas Fountain (7.98) and Shantia ary 28 & March 1—Two of the sport’s most fell far short of many of its predecessors. Moore (8.15.) But she couldn’t threaten Gail VICTOR SAILER/PHOTO RUN SAILER/PHOTO VICTOR Relatively sparse fields Devers’s ’03 meet record of 7.74. The 7.84 in nearly half the events, was worth 10 points fewer than Flanagan’s missing stars, and crowds record. slenderized by the week- Jones had breezed through an 8.02 heat end’s snows marked the earlier Sunday, after Saturday’s scheduled first meet that once was the round was deemed unnecessary. Then, just 9 crown jewel of the whole ran, from which 8 advanced to the final thee indoor season and has an hours later. often-glorious history dat- Jones came to Boston after a great Euro- ing back to the 1890s. pean swing, which saw her run to co-world Even with $2500, year list-leading 7.82 victories in Karlshrue $1500 and $500 rewards and Birmingham. awaiting the 1–2–3 fin- Running 10 minutes before Jones’s win, ishers in every champion- Trammell was just as dominant over the ship event at the Reggie men’s barrier field. He, too, had a superb Lewis Center—on top of start and turned on the afterburners to leave the $25,000 bonus to the Dexter Faulk (7.53) and Jerome Miller (7.61) male and female athletes in his slipstream.
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