Add AP News on Google Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. McClain said in an Instagram post that she followed a police escort, official lead vehicle and a media motorcycle off the course for about one kilometer. “I had to come to a stop, make a tight & complete u-turn & run back onto course as a national championship title & a world team spot slipped away,” she wrote. McClain and three other runners who followed the lead vehicle appealed after their protest of the order of finish was rejected. The USATF said lead vehicles are provided and managed by the local organizing committee, which was the Atlanta Track Club.

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