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TFS News Briefs: 4/02/08

Posted April 2nd, 2008 at 2:30 PM by Jimmie R. Markham

Section: News & Results, Marathons, Track & Field, Olympics

Team USA Secret Weapons Revealed
Cooling vests used by Deena Kastor and Meb Keflezighi at the 2004 Olympics gave them the edge in the heat of the Athens marathons. What are USOC’s scientists doing now to prepare US athletes for Beijing? This Washington Post article reveals a Manhattan Project-like effort.
Read more at: [Washington Post]

Transitional Year For Oregon Track Team
An article in Eugene’s Register Guard provides a good overview of the current states of the University of Oregon’s track team Ducks’ coach Vin Lananna said, “we’re looking at this year as a very interesting gap. We have a spectacularly young team, and how we do depends on their learning curve … but honestly, we need to be focusing our attention on 2010 when the NCAAs are here [in Eugene, OR]. That’s when we need to be firing on all cylinders, and we’ve got two years to get it right.”
Read more at: [The Register-Guard]

Warehouse No. 812 May Spawn Olympians
An article in Northern California’s Modesto Bee profiles Tri-Valley Athletics who train in Warehouse No. 812 located in an old Navy warehouse at the Port of Stockton. Athletes include two-time Olympian Suzy Powell, pole vaulter Tye Harvey and his wife Three-time Olympian Amy Acuff.
Read more at: [Modesto Bee]
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