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U.S. #HalfMarathon Championships Ends in Controversy as Top 3 #Women Are Led Off Course
The lead pack was #running the wrong way for a quarter mile before having to make an abrupt U-turn https://www.runnersworld.com/races-places/a70560686/usatf-half-marathon-championships-controversy/

After 2026 U.S. #HalfMarathon Championships Fiasco, What Now?
"These #women are professionals …They competed through uncertainty. They finished with the grit that defines championship racing in the first place, and they’ve responded with the grace of champions” https://run.outsideonline.com/road/road-racing/2026-us-half-marathon-championships-fiasco/

U.S. Half Marathon Championships Ends in Controversy as Top 3 Women Are Led Off Course

The women’s race at the USATF Half Marathon Championships on Sunday in Atlanta ended in controversy.

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#Atlanta Track Club announced that it will award the three #runners the equivalent prize money for the positions they were in when the race got derailed, which is very generous. A subsequent #USATF statement had more good news in store for McClain: She might get to go to Worlds after all. 'That team is not officially selected until May,’ the statement read. ' #USATF will review the events from #Atlanta carefully … “ https://defector.com/u-s-half-marathon-championships-thrown-into-chaos-after-leaders-accidentally-led-off-course
U.S. Half-Marathon Championships Thrown Into Chaos After Leaders Accidentally Led Off Course | Defector

Jess McClain was cruising to her first U.S. half-marathon championship this past weekend in Atlanta when the lead vehicle in charge of driving the course ahead of her made a wrong turn with less than two miles to go, sending her and the other would-be top-three runners off the course and costing them the benefits…