TRACK , FILED: News and Notes, Volume 8, Number 19

2008 U.S. Olympic Team Trials - Women's Marathon to be Webcast, televised Fans can watch the race in its entirety when the upcoming 2008 U.S. Olympic Team Trials-Women's Marathon is webcast and televised nationally. The webcast will be available on NBCSports.com/marathon on Sunday, April 20. Additionally, a 60-minute highlights show will air on MSNBC on Sunday, April 27. The 2008 U.S. Olympic Team Trials-Women's Marathon will be held at 8:00 a.m. on Sunday, April 20, and will be run on a unique multi-loop course in downtown Boston and Cambridge. The race will feature more than 100 of the top female marathoners in America vying for a chance to represent the United States at the Olympic Games in Beijing this summer. Among the athletes entered in the field are 2004 Olympic Marathon bronze medalist Deena Kastor, 1984 Olympic Marathon gold medalist Joan Samuelson, and 2004 U.S. Olympic Team Trials-Women's Marathon champion Colleen De Reuck. The live webcast on April 20 will begin at 8:00 a.m. NBC Sports commentator Al Trautwig and 10-time NCAA All-American Ed Eyestone will provide commentary for the wire-to-wire coverage. MSNBC will broadcast a one-hour highlights show on Sunday, April 27 from 12:00-1:00 p.m. ET, with analysis by Trautwig and Eyestone. The one-hour show will be the first episode in a series highlighting a number of Olympic Trials events leading up to the Beijing Olympic Games in August. The Olympic Trials online and over-the-air broadcast is a joint production of the USOC, Boston Athletic Association, NBC Sports and USA Track , Field. 3 of sport's hottest stars set for adidas Track Classic on May 18 A trio of reigning World Champions and Olympic gold-medal contenders - Tyson Gay, Allyson Felix and Jeremy Wariner - are set to compete at the adidas Track Classic on May 18, organizers announced today. Among them, they brought home eight gold medals from the 2007 World Championships in Osaka, and all three are destined for the Olympic spotlight later this summer. The adidas Track Classic will begin at 12:30 p.m. on May 18 at The Home Depot Center, on the campus of California State University, Dominguez Hills, and will be broadcast live on ESPN from 1 p.m.-3 p.m. PDT (4 p.m.-6 p.m. EDT). Gay, who won gold at 100 meters, 200 meters and the 4x100-meter relay in Osaka, was named 2007 male IAAF Athlete of the Year in track and field by the sport's international governing body. Among his many other honors last year, Gay was ranked #1 in the world at 100 and 200 meters by Track , Field News magazine, which also named him Man of the Year. Felix also won three gold medals at the World Championships, at 200 meters and both the 4x100 and 4x400-meter relays. In defending her 200-meter title, the Los Angeles native ran 21.81 seconds, the fastest time in the world by any woman in the last eight years. A 2004 Olympic silver medalist, the 22-year-old finished the year ranked not only #1 in the world at 200 meters, but #3 at 400 meters and #6 at 100 meters. For their efforts, Felix and Gay were named the 2007 Jesse Owens Award winners as the top track-and-field athletes in the United States. Wariner, the 2004 Olympic gold medalist at 400 meters and the 4x400-meter relay, was ranked #1 in the world for 2007 after defending his World Champion titles. Dominant at the distance for the past three years, Wariner notched six of the top 10 times in the world last year; his winning time of 43.45 seconds in Osaka topped the 2007 list.