By Todd Bookman, Only A Game
Track and field has a numbers problem. As in, there are just too many of them. The 60, 26.2, 4×8, 203, 5, 8, 10K…
Back in the 1950s, there was one number that mattered.
“I think there are only a handful of achievements like breaking four minutes for the first...
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Kip Keino beat the favored Jim Ryun in the Olympic 1500 meters in 1968, the first chapter in Kenya’s success story in distance running.
By William C. Rhoden, New York Times
In the fall of 1968, I was a college freshman on a football scholarship at Morgan State in Baltimore; Kevin Thompson was...
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By Melanie Yuill, Fox 28
Plymouth's own Morgan Uceny was running for the Gold in London Friday.
And the crowd at Plymouth High School was just brimming with excitement to watch the race and cheer her on. But the cheers suddenly fell silent when Uceny fell, tripped from behind in her last lap.... Read More comments
By David Woods, Indianapolis Star
LONDON – This is the other side of Olympic glory.
Half a lifetime of preparation, of dreaming, shattered in an instant.
Hoosier native Morgan Uceny fell Friday night in the 1500 meter final at the Olympic Games. Afterward, she knelt on the track, head...
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Return the Mile to prominence on the American & worldwide sports and cultural landscape by elevating and celebrating the Mile to create a movement.
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Bring Back the Mile as the premier event in the sport, and increase interest in and media coverage of the Mile for both those who love the distance as well as the general public.
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