by Brett Larner The press conference announcing the Japanese women's and men's teams for August's London World Championships is set for this Friday. It's a complicated selection process with four separate domestic races each to choose the three women and three men who will represent Japan in London. Essentially, any woman who had run under 2:22:30 or man under 2:07:00 within the selection window and took the top spot at one of the selection races would be on the team. Barring that, the JAAF would consider a pool of ten for each team, the top woman at last August's Hokkaido Marathon and the top three domestic women from November's Saitama International Marathon , January's Osaka International Women's Marathon and March's Nagoya Women's Marathon , and for men the top Japanese man at February's Beppu-Oita Mainichi Marathon and the top three from December's Fukuoka International Marathon , February's Tokyo Marathon and March...
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