Las Vegan Amanda Bingson finished fourth and one spot out of qualifying for Rio in the women’s hammer throw Wednesday at the U.S. Track and Field Trials in Eugene, Oregon.
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Silverado High School graduate Amanda Bingson, who first took up the event as a freshman at UNLV and holds the American record, will be favored to secure her second consecutive Olympic berth Wednesday.
Anna Bogoslavets, a freshman on a UNLV roster that features only foreign players, is a young woman from the Ukrainian capital of Kiev who will shatter the single-season record for winning percentage. She is 24-1 entering the NCAA Tournament on Friday.
You can never underestimate the spirit of sports, those intangibles that make certain athletes rise to the occasion when all seems lost in a season, when your bench has been reduced to the point your basketball coach spent part of his day before a conference game against your biggest rival glancing at the school’s football roster.