It’s tough to get noticed when you compete in a track meet that produces a world record in the 100 meters.

Eugene’s Lauren Fleshman found herself in that position last Saturday night.
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Eugene, Oregon (6/2/08)     At last year's Prefontaine Classic, Oregon Track Club Elite’s Nick Symmonds thrilled a disbelieving sold-out Hayward Field by overtaking Olympic
gold medalist Yuriy Borzakovskiy in the final s...

EUGENE — The Prefontaine Classic is
named after a distance runner, Steve Prefontaine, and the event
traditionally has offered scintillating excitement on the track.
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Liu Xiang's coach has moved to calm fears over the reigning Olympic
110m Hurdles champion's fitness following his withdrawal from
Saturday's IAAF World Athletics Tour meeting in New York (31 May).
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Several members of the Rutgers
men's and women's track and field teams traveled to Tallahassee, Fla.
to participate in the 2008 NCAA East Regional on Friday, May 30 and
Saturday, May 31, on the campus of Florida State Unive...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Rutgers junior Brandon Burkhardt (Dallas, Pa.) of the men's track and field team earned a spot on the 2008 NCAA East
Regional Team with his sixth-place performance at the meet this past
weekend on the campus of Florida State...

NORWALK -- The majority of the crowd of 10,712 at Cerritos College rose as one, chanting his name:

"GERMAN! GERMAN! GERMAN!"
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NEW YORK -- The only finish-line photos in this race were the ones of Veronica Campbell-Brown throwing flowers into the crowd.

The
Jamaican sprinter, winner of a photo finish at worlds last year, left
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Berlin, Germany - LaShawn Merritt and Pamela Jelimo took some prized
scalps this afternoon in front of an enthusiastic crowd of 67,124
spectators at the DKB-ISTAF Berlin, the opening meeting of the ÅF Golden League in Berlin’s Olympic sta...

May 30, 2008By LetsRun.com *Start lists

Thursday was media day at the Reebok Grand Prix and the attention rightfully was on the Tyson Gay-Usain Bolt showdown at 100m (and the Veronica Campbell-Brown, Lauryn Williams (1 and 2 at worlds last year) sho...