USATF asks IAAF for the time table change, from EME News (sources: Reuters, USATF, IAAF)

Allyson Felix, photo by PhotoRun.net

Updated December 18, 2015 : IAAF closes up for holiday 19 December 2015 through 4 January 2016, so no official response until January is our best guess.

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USATF asks IAAF for the time table change
INDIANAPOLIS (USA): USATF has formally petitioned the IAAF to amend the competition schedule for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, requesting that a change be made to allow for Allyson Felix to double in the 200 and 400 m next summer. Informs USATF website. “We did receive an official request today from USATF,” Paul Hardy, competitions director for the IAAF, told Reuters in an email. “This will be reviewed in the next few days.”

Editor’s note: Allyson Felix wants to double over 200 meters and 400 meters. The process is that the USATF will petition the IAAF and the IAAF will review the request. Face it, the IAAF and USATF want as many eyeballs on those TV screens during the Olympics. As track and field is the most popular modern sport in Olympic summer venues, watching Allyson Felix, one of the finest sprinters in Olympic history, wants to put her name on a double that is seldom successful.

RunBlogRun will look forward to such a double. We sure hope the IAAF is able to amend a schedule, similar to what Michael Johnson asked for in 1996.

Allyson Felix, photo by PhotoRun.net

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Larry Eder
Larry Eder has had a 52-year involvement in the sport of athletics. Larry has experienced the sport as an athlete, coach, magazine publisher, and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America's first sub-4 minute miler, was published in RW in 1983. Larry has published several magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. version of Spikes magazine. He currently manages the content and marketing development of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his daily pilgrimage with the sport, Larry says: "I have to admit, I love traveling to far away meets, writing about the sport I love, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, the most of anything I have ever done, except, maybe running itself." Also does some updates for BBC Sports at key events, which he truly enjoys. Theme song: Greg Allman, " I'm no Angel."
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