Slowtwitch to report live from Olympic Trials
This coming weekend we will bring you a live report from the 2008 US Olympic triathlon trials in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. You will be able to find out right here which male and female US athlete will join Jarrod Shoemaker and Laura Reback in Beijing.
USA Triathlon has 3 qualifying events for the 2008 Summer Olympics. The first was in Beijing last September, with Jarrod Shoemaker and Laura Bennett as the top Americans earning the first spots. The Olympic Trials in Tuscaloosa on Saturday will give the top US man and woman the next spots. The final man and woman will be selected after the June 22 Hy-Vee Triathlon in Des Moines, Iowa. Those remaining slots will be rewarded based on a points system taking into account the best two races for each athlete left in the running.
Starters (Only US athletes in the top 125 in Olympic rankings or World Cup rankings are allowed to compete at the Trials)
Men
1. Andy Potts
2. Hunter Kemper
3. Joe Umphenour
4. Matt Reed
5. Brian Fleischmann
6. Doug Friman
7. Tim O'Donnell
8. Mark Fretta
9. Victor Plata
10. Manny Huerta
Women
1. Sarah Kortuem
2. Julie Ertel
3. Sarah Groff
4. Sara McLarty
5. Becky Lavelle
6. Jasmine Oeinck
7. Margaret Shapiro
8. Rebeccah Wassner
9. Joanna Zeiger
10. Amanda Stevens
11. Mary Beth Ellis
