Defending champion Amy Cragg will miss the Feb. 29 U.S. Olympic marathon trials with an illness, according to her social media.
“The Trials are the reason I have shown up every day for the last four years, so this has been an extremely difficult decision,” was posted on her social media.
Cragg, 36, was among the favorites to grab three Olympic spots at trials in Atlanta, despite not having completed a marathon since the February 2018 Tokyo Marathon.
Cragg, fourth at the 2012 Olympic trials, relegated Des Linden and Shalane Flanagan to second and third at the 2016 trials.