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TFS News Briefs: 12/08/07

Posted December 8th, 2007 at 10:45 AM by Jimmie R. Markham

Section: News & Results, Cross Country, Track & Field, Olympics, TFS News Briefs

Thailand Track & Field Golden at the Southeast Asia Games
Thailand doesn’t seem to be in a sharing mood at the Southeast Asia Games. A total of 150 gold medals are up for grabs and Thailand has already won 33 of them on day 1 of the track competition. Read more at: [Google News]

Profile of British ‘68 Olympic Gold Medalist David Hemery
David Hemery, who won the men’s 400m hurdles at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City, keeps busy nearly 40 years later by coaching, running and going on motivational speaking engagements. He is profiled on the website Scotsman.Read more at: [Scotsman]

Foot Locker High School National X-C Championships Set for Today
The top high school harriers in the nation will be squaring off today in the Foot Locker National Cross-Country Championships. They will be webcast live on the Foot Locker site.
Watch the races live at: [Foot Locker National Cross-Country Championships]
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TFS News Briefs: 12/07/07

Posted December 7th, 2007 at 6:00 PM by Jimmie R. Markham

Section: News & Results, Cross Country, TFS News Briefs

High School X-C Runner Gets Rock-Star Treatment
The Foot Locker High-School National Cross-Country Championships will be held tomorrow in San Diego, CA. One of the favorites going into the race is German Fernandez from Riverbank (CA) High School. The heavily-recruited senior “signs autographs on dollar bills, has a Wikipedia entry and is the topic of debate on running Web sites across the nation.” Read more at: [Modesto Bee, CA]

CT Harrier Comes in From the Cold to Try and Win Nationals
Donn Cabral of Glastonbury (CT) High School has gone to San Diego, CA a day early to acclimate himself to the 60° heat (it’s 30° in CT). He is shooting to become the first boy from CT to win the Foot Locker High-School National Cross-Country Championships. Read more at: [Hartford Courant]

Texas Teammates Seek Foot Locker Title
Southlake Carroll High School Teammates Colby Low and C.J. Brown will be vying for the Foot Locker High-School National Cross-Country Championship title tomorrow. Lowe has the fastest regional qualifying time (14:45 for 5k at the South Regionals) going in to the race while Brown finished 3rd in 15:00. Read more at: [Fort Worth Star Telegram]
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