2016 US Olympic Marathon Trials

andwill get plenty of attention this week, so we wanted to start our previews by focusing on the men who have a shot at the Olympic team if any of the Big 3 falter. In 2012 , we only had a list of 6 outside of the eventual top 4. This year, the list is 20 deep.

Tell us who will win the Marathon Trials and win some cool RunningWarehouse and Asics prizes.

We take a look at the underdogs in the field - everyone not namedand

Want to know the latest of Ritz's preparations for the Trials. We've got 12 minutes with the American hopeful.

At 40, Meb is still taking names. Can he do it Saturday at the Olympic Marathon Trials? He also speaks of Rupp's chances.

Meb, Ritz, and Rupp locks to make the team? Think again.

There are no more press conferences. It is time for the Trials! What does the overlooked #4 seed in the men's race think about being slighted?

Desi Linden said it best, "Meb's the epitome of a hero"

Tyler Pennel gives some inspiration for underdogs everywhere, revealing he wanted to win the Trials.

We take a brief look back to the Trials and a bigger look back to Regina Jacobs and Suzy Favor Hamilton .

A little love was lost between Meb and Galen during the race. We try and explain what happened.

Rupp (2:11:12), Keflezighi (2:12:20) and Ward (2:13:00) is your team to Rio as Luke Puskedra (2:14:12) and Tyler Pennel (2:14:57) just miss out.

Amy Cragg and Shalane Flanagan looked to be out on a training run until the heat started to take its toll on Flanagan. Cragg cruised to the victory, Desi Linden ran like a pro to take second, and Shalane Flanagan held on ahead of Kara Goucher for third.

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Good Read: Dennis Young: "Everyone Says That They Want To Avoid A Repeat Of The 2016 Marathon Trials" From lack of water, poor medical support and a late start time in hot conditions, a lot went wrong at the 2016 Trials and Young concludes "it was probably the local organizing committee's fault."

Good Q&A With Desiree Linden On Her Approach At The Trials, Recovery Since And Some Other Random Personal Info Linden celebrated after the trials with a vacation in Bali. Here she talks about how she approched the Trials like a "checklist", her favorite Olympic sports and love of music.

Q&A With Jared Ward About The Olympic Trials And Thoughts On Making His First Olympics Ward talks about the inspirational moment at the finish were he was greeted by Meb Keflezighi.

How Did Californians Do At The Olympic Trials? After Meb, Shadrack Biwott was 7th on the men's side. For the women, she might live in Michigan now, but Desi Linden is a California native.

Peter Abraham: 10 Ways To Improve The Olympic Marathon Trials He starts off by talking about the sponsorship battle between Sketchers (who sponsors the LA Marathon) and Nike (who sponsors USATF).

Brett Larner Takes An "Honest Look" At American Marathoning History And Asks If We've Reached A Turning Point The women are better than ever and the men have potential thanks to Galen Rupp, but have some work to do.

Brooks And Nike Lead US Olympic Marathon Trials Shoe Count Looking at the top 75 men and 75 women, 27 wore brooks and 26 wore Nike. Adidas was 3rd most prominent with 23.

Good Read: Shalane Flanagan Q&A On Dehydration, Delirium, And Drama At The Olympic Trials Flanagan goes step-by-step through the race from reacting to Keylln Taylor's move to teamwork with Amy Cragg and getting so dehydrated she needed an IV afterwards. She says her issues were due to dehydration rather than fitness and is concerned about performing in hot Rio.

Luke Puskedra Talks About Being 4th; Says He'll Try To Make Rio In the 10,000 If he doesn't make the 10,000 team (and Galen Rupp sticks with the 10K/marathon double) then Puskedra will start focusing on Chicago again.