Olympic Weekend Wrap-Up An Olympic berth was already secured, but the U.S. women’s soccer team was not finished. Alex Morgan scored two goals and assisted on the other two Sunday when the United States defeated Canada 4-0.
Abbott and Rippon will represent the United States at World Championships; Abbott, Rippon and Miner at Four Continents; and Jason Brown, Timothy Dolensky and Joshua Farris at World Juniors.
The pairs teams are: Denney-Coughlin and Marley-Brubaker at World Championships; Denney-Coughlin, Marley-Brubaker and Evora-Ladwig at Four Continents; and Haven Denney-Brandon Frazer, Kylie Duarte-Colin Grafton and Britney Simpson-Matthew Blackmer at World Juniors.
The ice dancing teams are: Davis-White, Shibutani-Shibutani and Hubbell-Donohue at World Championships and Four Continents.
TRACK AND FIELD
Lolo Jones returned from an injury to run the fastest women’s 50-meter hurdles time in the world since 2008 with a finish of 6.78 seconds Saturday at the U.S. Open.
The event at Madison Square Garden was the start of the Visa Championships Series.
Jones, the two-time defending World Indoor champion, underwent back surgery following the 2011 USA Outdoor Championships. This was her first race since the surgery.
“This year I have just been working on my core strength and speed,” Jones said. “I didn’t even know what the world record was.
“I knew that I had to go out there and just run.”
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• Mike Wolfe and Rebecca Dussault won titles at the USA Winter Triathlon National Championships Sunday in Butte, Mont. Wolfe finished the 5-kilometer run, 10-kilometer mountain bike and 5-kilometer cross-country ski in 1:10:20 to win by more than three minutes. Matt Seeley and Landon Beckner finished second and third to earn spots, along with Wolfe, on Team USA in the ITU Winter Triathlon World Championships in March in Finland.
Dussault, the 2010 world champion, won her third national title in four years. Emma Garrard and Nicole Freeman gained the other spots at the world championships.
• Zach Railey received the U.S. Sailing’s Golden Torch Award for its best overall performance at the Rolex Miami OCR. Railey, an Olympic silver medalist in 2008, won the gold medal in Finn. The competition followed the 2012 London Olympic and Paralympic format with 10 Olympic classes and three Paralympic classes.
Erik Storck/Trevor Moore took the silver medal in the 49er race while Farrah Hall took silver in RS:X Women’s. Sally Barkow, Elizabeth Kratzig-Burnham and Alana O’Reilly took bronze in the Petit Finals.
• U.S. freestyle wrestlers Tervel Dlagnev (120 kg/264.5 pounds) and Jake Varner (96 kg/211.5 pounds) claimed silver and bronze medals at the Ivan Yarygin Memorial Grand Prix in Krasnoyarsk, Russia.
Rulon Gardner, the 2000 Olympic gold medalist, competed for the first time since taking bronze medal in the Athens 2004 Olympic Games. Gardner went 4-0 in Greco-Roman wrestling in the heavyweight division at the Kiki Cup, a series of dual meets Saturday at the U.S. Olympic Training Center.
Michaela Hutchison won her third title in her fourth straight appearance in the finals to help Oklahoma City won its fourth straight WCWA Women’s College Nationals title Saturday in Bristol, Tenn. The event also served as a qualifier for the U.S. Olympic Trials.
• Race Imboden and Alexander Massialas earned the bronze medals in
