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Friday 28 February 2020

Virus

threat to HEAT

Olympics

casts CHECK

shadow

over

marathon

trials

By CHARLES ODUM
AP Sports Writer
ATLANTA (AP) — The na-
tion's top distance runners
carry a new concern into
the U.S. Olympic Team
Marathon Trials.
"The possibility that you
make this team and then
you don't have an Olym-
pics to go to," Jacob Riley
said.
The top three men's and
women's finishers on Sat-
urday will earn spots on
the U.S. team.
Ultimately, their dreams
of actually competing in
the Olympics this summer
may rest upon the new
virus from China, which
has spread to other parts
of the world, including Ja-
pan.
The coronavirus was a hot
topic as some of the run-
ners gathered in Atlanta
on Thursday.
"It's there but I think from
my perspective what I
have to do is just ignore
it and go out and race,"
said Jared Ward, who Minnesota rallies late,
finished third in the 2016
trials in Los Angeles and shock Miami 129-126
placed sixth in the 2016
Rio Olympics.
Longtime International Miami Heat forward Bam Adebayo (13) is stripped
Olympic Committee of the ball by Minnesota Timberwolves forward
member Dick Pound told
The Associated Press on Juancho Hernangomez during the second half of an
Tuesday there is a window NBA basketball game, Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2020, in
of two to three months to Miami.
decide if conditions are Associated Press
too dangerous to hold
the Olympics in Tokyo. Page 20

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