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Sebastien
Lounis rabbited the Reebok Joe Concannon Men's Mile
field...
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...through
the 800m mark in 1:57.5 before stepping off the track.
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Fidel
Baregensabe of Burundi leads Bernard Lagat.
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Lagat
has Olympic silver ('04) and bronze ('00) medals in
the 1,500m.
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Lagat
runs in the lead with just over three laps to go.
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Michigan's
Nate Brannen runs in fourth place.
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With
just over 400 meters to go, Kenya's Bernard Lagat...
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...continues
to lead and Elkanah Angwenyi, also of Kenya, runs
in second place.
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Laban
Rotich, the bronze medalist in the 1,500m at last
year's World Indoor Championships, moves past Nate
Brannen.
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With
400m to go, it seemed pretty clear that the winner
would come from the group of five who had broken away.
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Rob
Myers leads Mike Woods and Fumikazu Kobayashi.
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The
Michigan freshman had run 3:42.49 for 1,500m in finishing
seventh at the 2004 World Junior T&F Championships.
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John
Mortimer, a Michigan alum who now coaches at Boston
College, leads Arkansas' Mike Woods.
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With
one lap to go, Bernard Lagat continues to lead.
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Australia's
Mark Fountain lives in Arkansas and trains under coach
John McDonnell. Fountain set a national indoor mile...
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...record
of 3:54.77 in finishing fourth here.
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Scott
McGowan finished seventh in 3:58.91 and became the
first person from Montana to break 4:00 in the mile.
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Laban
Rotich used impeccable timing to catch a struggling
Bernard Lagat on the final turn. He went on to win...
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...in
3:53.18, a Kenyan indoor mile record. Lagat finished
second in 3:53.61.
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Fumikazu
Kobayashi (ninth, 4:04.76) leads John Mortimer (10th,
4:04.95) across the finish line.
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