Unbelievable comeback from 9th to 1st in 800 meter Diamond League final | NBC Sports

go back quickly to the tractional price the American introduced as the pace center here in the women's 800 meters Natur cool comes in in Lane seven and what is a wide open race this may be the most wide open race in the entire event today in Paris and she is one of the favorites we have two of the three top Americans from Des Moines as Ashley Wilson sitting this one out behind her and second in that race in Des Moines on the blue oval was how to grade the Virginia Tech product now training out in Eugene Oregon where this woman won five collegiate titles for the University of Oregon but she's now moved to Philadelphia Rayven Robert one of the favorites today Rogers in lane the sixth and Rinella vote who needs the standard time for the world championship she's had a really good career for France but not yet qualified for Doha keep an eye on that throughout today's race Whitney not Biondo next in the lane at number four along with Nellie JEP husky dad a 28-year old definitely among the favorites in this race as well American Cape Grace Rio Olympian now 30 years old makes the start to Diamond League events as well running out of lane number three good off sagaie if he field be always in the mix 22 year old has a lifetime best of 157 59 77 setback in 2016 that's down a distance for her compared to her normal 1500 where she's tied for the Diamond League lead bola liya kava next to her and Morgan Mitchel talent Australian three times a national champion and 400 meters now moving up to the 800 where she is just closing in on that two-minute lifetime best 200 o six set in London this summer time League leader al Jay Wilson not here this really does feel like a race that five or six different athletes have a legitimate shot at winning here well certainly among those is her training partner Raven Rogers 9 Diamond League appearances no victories could that streak end in her 10th race here in Paris she's going out very quickly Raven Rogers third from right shanell priced the pacer early what come back for her it has been after some really difficult health issues and injuries over the past couple years yeah I found some blood clots and she was dealing with those but to your point thrilled to see her back she's a World Indoor champion and a front-runner which has made her transition to a pacesetter seem very easy Rodgers right behind her looks like she may want to take this one from the start as she pursues her first ever diamond league win Raven Rodgers ahead of Jeff husky and Mitchell let's watch the patience here for Hannah green again in that green singlet from the Oregon Track Club well back of the leaders right now but a hot base for this first 400 which was supposed to come through in just about fifty five and a half seconds and come through in 55:6 Rodgers Jeff husky now it's Rogers in front Jeff husk a second Mitchell third Lamacq still running well in pursuit of that Doha standard diamond Hannah green all the way back in seventh for the United States Rogers looking strong and nine tries in the Diamond League so far she's come up empty in her tenth start she still leads with güell moving into second well watch creamier now she is waited patiently and now has found another gear in a sail way into the top five and Rogers looks like she's struggling a little bit Raven Rogers ahead of metoya cool Hannah green has picked her way up into fourth place she is still coming Rogers leaves goal in second here comes Hannah green surgeon to the outside she looks like she has something left cool and green leave Rogers behind can't agree in the American with the win in the diamond league circuit but how about that show of patience and the smile and the celebration with Janel price and price again with a very quick first lap in fact they were supposed to go out in 57 and they were almost a second and a half fast or in green get some gradual ations from Cape Grace who was Olympic finalist at 800 meters in 2016 takes the win in such a confident fashion over that last hundred fifty meters you were on her the whole way Paul she slowly picked her way up from ninth to seventh to 4th and brings it home down to stretch well we'll go back and watch his last hundred meters you know her sprinting style as we should get auto Boldin's perspective on this as well she does not look like a sprinter in this case but she is just confident and comfortable keeping that stride length going and just takes down one runner after another and Rogers Thun did a nice job of kind of regaining some of that momentum and just in the last few strides Hannah green with a very great wind and has had such a great year of training out at Eugene you know as a NCAA runner-up at Virginia Tech her 2018 lifetime best was two 0:09 she is now brought it all the way down to 158 19 in today's wind 150 39 just shows that that consistency and that training is beginning to click and you gonna go all the way back to five years ago in her college days she's dropped 17 seconds off her PRS she just keeps getting better and better the first career diamond late waiting for Hannah green and goals second Nanyang go third Rogers ended up feeding back into sixth place at 159 of 50 so here are your Diamond League finalists a Jay Wilson be the favorite heading there with her win last time out David Rogers still qualifies as well and Hannah green with that Lana earns her way into the field that will compete the Diamond League final you

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Length: 6min 22sec (382 seconds)

Published: Sat Aug 24 2019