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[QUOTE="Blakeon18, post: 4745300, member: 35"]
At the Prefontaine meet in Oregon yesterday:

Yared Nuguse broke the American mile record with a 3:43.97 time.  That broke the olde
record by almost 3 seconds...he just obliterated it.  Uhh...he finished second.
Norwegian Ingebrigtsen ran a 3:43.73 race...only about 1/2 second off the world record.

An article says that pre-race the Norwegian told Yared he would try to help him break the
American record...apparently they are friends.  Sounds very much like he was offering to be a 'rabbit'
in the race.  NO rabbit he.  He led virtually the entire race...'helping' to pull along Yared...Yared was well within
reach the whole race...everybody else was well back.  The Norwegian held Yared off with a spectactular time of his own...
3rd fastest ever.

Hope these two get together at some point and take another crack at the world record.  I think the Pre is pretty much
the end of the season.  Annually a great event at the legit capital of track and field [University of Oregon]

Sunday:  second and last day on TV.  I figure they just have to show a replay of the mile event.

3:00-4:00 CNBC
4:00-5:00 NBC
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