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Amy Mortimer continues to run by herself. |
Former Tennessee star Sharon Dickie-Thompson begins to pull away from Missy Buttry. |
Two weeks earlier, Buttry finished out her NCAA career by winning her 13th and 14th NCAA DIII individual titles and leading Wartburg to a national team title. |
With two laps to go, Werknesh Kidane continues to lead Meseret Defar. |
It was beautiful to watch Kidane and Defar run together and both had such smooth strides. |
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With two laps to go, Shalane Flanagan looked great and had put even more distance on Mestawot Tadesse. |
Flanagan was a two-time NCAA cross country champion for the University of North Carolina. She ran a similarly gutsy race at the... |
...U.S. Olympic Trials one year ago to qualify for the Olympic team in the 5,000. |
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In February, Flanagan won the USA 4K cross country title. |
Mestawot Tadesse slowed dramatically in the final laps and went from running in third early on to finishing eighth. |
Kim Smith continues to run in fifth place. Smith ran a New Zealand 10,000m record of 31:21 earlier in the track season. |
Amy Rudolph and Jen Rhines begin to pull away. |
Earlier in the season, Rudolph, a two-time U.S. Olympian, ran the third-best U.S. women's 10,000 time ever with a 31:18.96 debut. |
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Katie McGregor and Yimenahsu Taye run in eighth and ninth place with two laps to go. |
Sharon Dickie-Thompson would finish 11th in 9:24.01. |
Missy Buttry with two laps to go. |
With one lap to go, Meseret Defar had pulled ahead of Werknesh Kidane, but the two were still right together. |
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