Olympic champion Mu falls in US trials & will miss Paris

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Athing Mu won golden successful nan 800m and 4x400m astatine nan 2020 Tokyo Olympics

Reigning women's Olympic 800m champion Athing Mu will not take sides her title astatine nan 2024 Paris Games aft falling successful nan US Olympic trials.

The 22-year-old tripped arsenic she ran successful nan mediate of nan battalion astir 200m into nan title successful Eugene, Oregon and vanished last.

Nia Akins won nan title and will recreation to Paris on pinch runner-up Allie Wilson and third-placed Juliette Whittaker.

In nan men's 400m, Quincy Hall chased down 2022 world champion Michael Norman aft nan last move to triumph successful 44.14 seconds.

"I cognize I tin tally a batch faster than I did," Norman said.

"It was conscionable a poorly executed race, I sewage a small excessively excited during nan infinitesimal truthful I paid for it astatine nan end."

Chris Bailey was 3rd and will compete successful Paris while 16-year-old Quincy Wilson vanished sixth to put him successful nan operation for a call-up to nan relay pool.

Grant Holloway, who took metallic astatine Tokyo 2020, won his power successful nan men's 110m hurdles.

"I conscionable wanted to put unit connected nan field, fto everybody cognize that I'm still connected top," Holloway said.

Anna Hall won nan heptathlon and will beryllium joined successful France by Chari Hawkins and Taliyah Brooks.

Cole Hocker, who won metallic astatine nan world indoors, won nan men's 1500m and heads to nan Games alongside Yared Nuguse and Hobbs Kessler.

Elle St Pierre group a meet grounds to clasp disconnected Elise Cranny connected nan location agelong successful nan women's 5,000m pinch Karissa Schweizer third.

The US Olympic tests resume connected Thursday erstwhile 100m winners Noah Lyles and Sha'Carri Richardson are expected to compete successful nan opening heats of nan men's and women's 200m.

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