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Olympic runners back on the track and field

By Helene Elliott
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Elite athletes have been busy in recent weeks as the U.S., Jamaica and Kenya held their Olympic trials. But track meets are resuming around the world this week.

A few people and meets to watch:

Reigning 100-meter world champion Veronica Campbell-Brown, who was edged out of an Olympic berth in at Jamaica’s Olympic trials, is scheduled to run the 100 at the Olympic Meeting Thessaloniki on Wednesday in Greece. Campbell-Brown will run the relay and the 200 in Beijing.

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World pole vault record holder Yelena Isinbayeva of Russia is scheduled to make her outdoor debut Friday at the Golden League meet in Rome. Might she be hearing the footsteps of Jenn Stuczynski, who set an American record of 16 feet, 1-3/4 inches at the U.S. trials last weekend?

--Helene Elliott

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Helene Elliott

Helene Elliott was with the Los Angeles Times’ Sports department from 1989 to 2024, first as a staff writer and then, starting in 2006, as a columnist. She became the first female journalist to be honored with a plaque in the Hall of Fame of a major professional sport as the 2005 winner of the Hockey Hall of Fame’s Elmer Ferguson Award, awarded to writers “who have brought honor to journalism and to hockey.” A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, she has covered 18 Olympics.

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