Mile News Tagged Ken Goe


The real story behind Matthew Centrowitz’s gutsy bid for the Olympics

July 02, 2012

By Ken Goe, The Oregonian

EUGENE, Ore. -- After Matthew Centrowitz finished second in Sunday's 1,500-meter final in the U.S. Olympic Trials at Hayward Field, he was asked about the knee injury he suffered this spring.

Centrowitz brushed it off as a "minor setback."

He wasn't telling the...

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Sara Vaughn competes on a shoestring, but that didn’t keep her out of the World Indoor Track & Field

March 28, 2012

By Ken Goe, The Oregonian

Beaverton resident Sara Vaughn (right) pictured here at last winter's U.S. Open indoor meet in Madison Square Garden.
Sara Vaughn scrambled onto Team USA for this year's World Indoor Track & Field Championships in Istanbul.

Now we'll see what the 25-year-old mother...

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