The U.S. distance running boom in one image:
Emma Coburn and Courtney Frerichs clearing the final hurdle and dashing to the 3000m steeplechase finish line at the world championships. Behind them, four gassed Kenyan-born runners unable to keep pace.
Coburn and Frerichs went one-two in one of the biggest shocks at a surprise-filled worlds in London. It’s the first time Americans earned gold and silver in an individual Olympics or worlds race longer than 400 meters since the 1912 Stockholm Games.
Coburn, a bronze medalist in Rio as part of a dazzling U.