Gabby Thomas, Rai Benjamin and Grant Holloway have a brush with history at U.S. track trials

When Benjamin watched Holloway, he said, “it made me want to do something crazy.” Benjamin may be the most dominant athlete in Eugene. He jogged home so slowly in his Friday semifinal, which he won by acres, that he scanned the crowd for his mom. “The world record,” he said Friday, “is not on my mind.”