Can Luke Puskedra come out of retirement and make the 2020 U.S. Olympic team by finishing in the top three of Saturday’s U.S. Olympic Marathon trials? If you ask Luke Puskedra, even he thinks it’s a long shot.
“I can’t see it,” Puskedra says. “But, maybe. I don’t have the pressure that I did in 2016, where it was life or death for me.”
At the U.S. Olympic marathon trials in Los Angeles four years ago, Puskedra entered the race as a strong contender, owning 2015’s fastest American marathon time with a 2:10:54 at the Chicago Marathon.