{"id":399,"date":"2010-09-15T08:59:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-15T15:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trackchill.com\/?p=399"},"modified":"2010-09-15T08:59:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-15T15:59:00","slug":"abcs-of-the-2010-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/trackchill.com\/?p=399","title":{"rendered":"ABC\u2019s of the 2010 Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/view.picapp.com\/pictures.photo\/sports\/istaf-2010-iaaf-world\/image\/9579785?term=david+rudisha\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/view4.picapp.com\/pictures.photo\/image\/9579785\/istaf-2010-iaaf-world\/istaf-2010-iaaf-world.jpg?resize=380%2C278\" border=\"0\" width=\"380\" title=\"ISTAF 2010 - IAAF World Challenge\" height=\"278\" oncontextmenu=\"return false;\" ondrag=\"return false;\" onmousedown=\"return false;\" alt=\"BERLIN - AUGUST 22: David Lekuta Rudisha of Kenya celebrates the victory and the new world record in the men's 800m during the IAAF World Challenge ISTAF 2010 at the Olympic Stadium on August 22, 2010 in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Boris Streubel\/Bongarts\/Getty Images)\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear:left;height:0px;overflow: hidden;\"><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/view.picapp.com\/\/JavaScripts\/OTIjs.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>A \u2013 Ashton Eaton emerged as a major player in the decathlon<\/p>\n<p>B \u2013 Bershawn Jackson, back to form and dominant in the 400 hurdles<\/p>\n<p>C \u2013 Chris, as in Chris Solinsky and Christian Cantwell both looking good heading into 2011<\/p>\n<p>D \u2013 David, as in Rudisha and Oliver, the two most dominating athletes in 2010<\/p>\n<p>E \u2013 European Championships, the biggest event of the year<\/p>\n<p>F \u2013 Florida Relays site of Tyson Gay\u2019s 44.89 making him the first man ever to run under 10.00, 20.00 and 45.00<\/p>\n<p>G \u2013 Gay (Tyson) the world\u2019s #1 sprinter in 2010<\/p>\n<p>H \u2013 Howard-Lowe (Chaunte) new AR holder in the high jump<\/p>\n<p>I \u2013 Injuries, Kenenisa Bekele, almost every Jamaican sprinter, half of the US sprinters, nearly every top global high hurdler<\/p>\n<p>J \u2013 Jeremy Wariner returned to dominating form<\/p>\n<p>K \u2013 Kara Patterson set an AR in the javelin and new standards of consistency while becoming a major global player<\/p>\n<p>L \u2013 Lemaitre (Christophe) became the first \u201cwhite\u201d sprinter to break through the 10.00 barrier<\/p>\n<p>M \u2013 Middle distance surge in the US on the feet of Andrew Wheating, Leonel Manzano, Morgan Uceny, Phoebe Wright, and Alysia Johnson<\/p>\n<p>N \u2013 NCAA Championships, the most exciting event of the year<\/p>\n<p>O \u2013 Ostapchuck (Nadzeya), the most dominating, and overlooked, female athlete on the planet this year<\/p>\n<p>P \u2013 Penn Relays, once again the biggest event on US soil<\/p>\n<p>Q \u2013 Qatar, the first stop on the new Diamond League<\/p>\n<p>R \u2013 Rio de Janerio won the bid to host the 2016 Olympic Games \u2013 the first to be held in South America<\/p>\n<p>S \u2013 Stockholm, the site of the year\u2019s only major sprint showdown and the race heard round the world<\/p>\n<p>T \u2013 Teddy Tamgho, took the triple back over 59 feet<\/p>\n<p>U \u2013 Usain Bolt, if there were gold medals for partying he says he would have them all, lead the clock over 200 meters<\/p>\n<p>V \u2013 Veronica Campbell Brown leads the world in both the 100 &amp; 200<\/p>\n<p>W = Wallace Spearmon returns to form after down years with injury<\/p>\n<p>X \u2013 Xiang Liu, still injured, a sign of the times for the elite<\/p>\n<p>Y \u2013 Yargelis Savigne, still a force in the triple jump<\/p>\n<p>Z \u2013 Zurich once again a highlight of the European Circuit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A \u2013 Ashton Eaton emerged as a major player in the decathlon B \u2013 Bershawn Jackson, back to form and dominant in the 400 hurdles C \u2013 Chris, as in Chris Solinsky and Christian Cantwell both looking good heading into 2011 D \u2013 David, as in Rudisha and Oliver, the two most dominating athletes in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa3DCY-6r","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/trackchill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/trackchill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/trackchill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trackchill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trackchill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/trackchill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/trackchill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trackchill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trackchill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}