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SAINT-DENIS, France — Masai Russell slept just a few hours Friday night into Saturday, kept awake by the same dream. In the dream, she saw her name flash on the Stade de France scoreboard atop ...
SAINT-DENIS, France — Masai Russell bolted down the track, legs scissoring gracefully as she cleared the ten hurdles that separated her from the finish line. The 24-year-old from Maryland lunged ...
Masai Russell is taking home a Paris gold in her Olympics debut. In what was an intensely tight women’s 100-meter hurdles, the 24-year-old Potomac, Maryland native edged out her competition by ...
SAINT-DENIS, France — Masai Russell couldn’t stay asleep. She’d close her eyes and start dreaming. Each time, the unconscious film played in her mind including her looking up at the ...
in which the United States' Masai Russell narrowly won: First-, second and third-place finishers win gold, silver and bronze, respectively.
Masai Russell needs a name for her alter ego. Something like Sasha Fierce, who was the aggressive, audacious version of Beyoncé. Like Tina Snow: the raw-but-smooth, street-savvy side of Megan ...
Over three years ago, Kentucky hurdler Masai Russell said she’d be an NCAA Track and Field national champion. While Russell never got to see out that dream, she now has a new one on the horizon.
Masai Russell won gold at her first Olympics. She might only be getting better. Russell, a 24-year-old native of Potomac in Montgomery County, clocked the second-fastest 100-meter hurdles time in ...
Masai Russell of the USA had entered the Paris Olympics as one of the dark horses for the women's 100m hurdles event.Her personal best before the main event was 12.25 seconds, which was the world ...
Olympic gold medalist Masai Russell ran the second-fastest 100m hurdles time in history to open the Grand Slam Track Miami meet on Friday. Russell won in 12.17 seconds, five hundredths shy of Nigerian ...
PARIS, Aug 10 (Reuters) - American Masai Russell produced a stunning run to win the Olympic 100 metres hurdles title in a blanket finish on Saturday, edging out home hope Cyrena Samba-Mayela and ...
Fellow Americans Tia Jones, Champion Allison, Aleia Hobbs and Josephus Lyles, as well as Nigerian 100m hurdles world record ...