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Kevin
Sullivan continues to run in fourth place, but Tim
Broe closes in.
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Markos
Geneti moves into the lead...
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...and
Alistair Cragg runs in second.
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Kenenisa
Bekele remains in third.
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Tim
Broe moves past Kevin Sullivan, into fourth place.
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Broe
was a 2004 Olympic finalist at 5,000m and he won this
event...
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...at
the 2001 and 2002 USA Indoor Championships.
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With
500 meters to go, Alistair Cragg made a decisive move
to the lead, and Kenenisa Bekele covered it right
away.
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Charlie
Gruber (left, eighth, 8:05.76) and Steve Slattery
(ninth, 8:05.99).
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Bekele
made his own even-more-decisive move with just over
300 meters to go. At first, it just appeared that
he was...
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...kicking
from 300 meters out, but as he came up the homestretch,
he ran wide...
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...and
it became apparent that he had miscounted the laps
and thought he was finishing.
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Bekele
quickly realized his error and headed off for another
lap, but Alistair Cragg...
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...had
his opening. With one lap to go in this crazy race,
the win was up for grabs.
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Tim
Broe wound up fourth in 7:44.87.
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Jon
Riley (sixth, 7:51.63) leads Kevin Sullivan (fifth,
7:50.75).
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Charlie
Gruber with one lap to go.
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Cragg
took advantage of Bekele's error and went by him...
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...on
the final lap, to earn a surprising win in 7:39.89.
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We've
photographed Cragg winning enough races by now that
we should have expected the...
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...airplane
arms at the finish and zoomed out on this shot!
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Bernard
Lagat cools down with 800m winner Jolanda Ceplak.
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Jon
Riley chats with former Stanford coach Vin Lananna.
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