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Lead Stories: Friday, November 21, 2008

McDougal Prevails Over Rupp at NCAA D-I Cross Country Championships

Posted November 19th, 2007 at 7:30 PM by David Monti

Section: News & Results, Cross Country, College

The coaches’ pre-meet rankings held up as the top-ranked Oregon men and Stanford women won the team titles at today’s NCAA Division I Men’s and Women’s Cross Country Championships at Terre Haute’s Laverne Gibson Championships Cross Country Course.

Liberty’s Josh McDougal took an exciting men’s race over a dry course with temperatures in the upper 50s.

Despite the near perfect racing conditions, the men’s race sent out slowly with nearly everyone still in contention through 3 km in 8:57, and the halfway point in 15:09.

“I wasn’t surprised that the race went out so slow,” said McDougal after the race. “Two years under nearly identical conditions, the race went out slow.”
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TFS News Briefs: 10/24/07

Posted October 24th, 2007 at 11:21 AM by Jimmie R. Markham

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

Profile of Cuban 110m Hurdler Dayron Robles
Cuba News Headlines/Cuban Daily News profiles 100m hurdler Dayron Robles and explains why the Cuban people believe he ought to be the 2007 Track & Field Athlete of the Year. Read more at: [Cuba News Headlines/Cuban Daily News]

Poor Air Quality in Beijing May Force the Move of Some Distance Events to Another VenueInternational Olympic Committee inspectors are in Beijing in continuing efforts to monitor the city’s notorious pollution and to try and determine whether or not some long-distance events will be need to be moved to another city. Read more at: [Washington, PA Observer-Reporter]

NCAA Cross Country: Conference Championships Weekend
The top 5 ranked teams in NCAA Division I Cross Country (1. Oregon, 2. Northern Arizona, 3. UTEP, 4. Iona, 5. Colorado) will all be competing in their conference championship meets this weekend. Read more at: [USTFCCCA]
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Oregon shoots for Pac-10 repeat on conference championship weekend

Posted October 23rd, 2007 at 12:15 PM by Martin Kennedy

Section: News & Results, Cross Country

Top-ranked Oregon defends its title at the Pacific-10 Championships as other nationally ranked Division I teams also prepare for conference meets this weekend.

Oregon, the top-rated team in the most recent U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association poll, will be challenged Saturday by eighth-ranked California, No. 14 Stanford, No. 19 UCLA and 25th-ranked Arizona State. The Pac-10 Championships will be held in Corvallis, Ore.
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