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Mile wire #15-06-13
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| Mary Cain Shows a Talent Far Beyond Her Years at Nationals | |
| By Tim Layden, Sports Illustrated | |
| DES MOINES, IowaÛÓThere will soon be a powerful urge in the world of U.S. track and field to envision what 17-year-old Mary Cain can be on some future night in some distant stadium against great middle distance runners from faraway lands. She is so young now, yet already so fast and improving more swiftly than even those closest to her had ever imagined. Her talent runs historically deep, and yet it has scarcely been explored. The temptation crawls up behind the sport and taps it on the shoulder, begging to be acknowledged, because it has been so long since an American woman was the very best in those races, and because all sports are beset by the curse of projection, where today is never worth embracing when tomorrow can be imagined. Continue reading at sportsillustrated.com |
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| Broadneck Alum Centrowitz Finishes First in Crowded 1500 Final | |
| From the Baltimore Sun | |
| Matthew Centrowitz (Broadneck) won a jam-packed 1500 meter final at the USA Outdoor Track & Field Championships on Saturday in Des Moines, Iowa. The 23-year-old from Annapolis won the event in 3 minutes, 45.17 seconds, beating out five other runners by less than a second. “In my head, I said, ‘Dominate the final,’ and that’s what I set out to do,” said Centrowitz, who took the lead with less than 70 meters remaining. “I didn’t really glance back.” Continue reading at bringbackthemile.com. |
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| Olympic Hero Leo Manzano in Search of Sponsorship | |
| By Tim Layden, Sports Illustrated | |
| DES MOINESÛÓThere are 19 billboard-sized Nike swooshes affixed to the concrete walls and iron railings encircling the outer boundary of the running track at the USA Outdoor Track & Field Championships this weekend at Drake Stadium. There are four more swooshes placed on the infield, including one that is strategically placed at the finish line to appear in any photograph or video captured at the conclusion of a race. There are other sponsorship totems present within the stadium walls, but no corporate symbol is more ubiquitous here than the swoosh, and it is not close. There is, however, one place you will not see a swoosh this weekend: On the uniform of 2012 Olympic 1500 meter silver medalist Leo Manzano. Continue reading at sportsillstrated.com. |
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| Comeback Kid Treniere Moser Leaves the Retirement Plans Behind | |
| By Ken Goe, The Oregonian | |
| Treniere Moser is so tough and stubbornly determined that when she fell on the home straight of the 1500 semifinals at the 2004 U.S. Olympic Trials, she crawled across the finish line. But guts and determination take an athlete only so far, by the close of the 2012 outdoor season Moser ÛÓ formerly Treniere Clement ÛÓ could see the end. She was 30. She hadn’t broken her personal record in the 800 since 2005 or in the 1500 since 2006. She won the last of her three U.S. championships in 2007. “I was putting a lot into it and I was getting nothing in return,” Moser said. “It was just really hard, because I pride myself on being a hard worker and it was just not showing at all. I thought it was me. I thought my best days were over.” Except it wasn’t, and they aren’t. Continue reading at oregonlive.com. |
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| June 20, 2013 – By Michelle Gardner, San Bernardino Sun | |
| See You Later, Jim Ryun | |
| July 3, 1967 – By Pete Azthelm, Sports Illustrated | |
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| By Bring Back the Mile |
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