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Oregon men go the distance with style
12:36 PM PDT on Saturday, June 28, 2008
Oregon's top male distance runners put on a show for the hometown crowd Friday night at the Olympic Trials.
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Galen Rupp celebrates at the U.S. Olympic Trials
UO All American Galen Rupp, who's main event is the 10,000, couldn't resist smoking the last lap of his 5,000 heat, waving a "number one" as he pulled away to win.
Meanwhile, Adam Goucher, who moved to Oregon with his wife Kara to train under Alberto Salazar in Nike's Oregon Project, ran under control in his heat of the 5,000 meters under unusually hot Eugene weather. Goucher, whose heat featured 1500 and 5000 meter 2007 World Champion Bernard Lagat, cruised to advance to the 5000 meter final on Monday.
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Nick Symmonds wins his heat of the 800 meters at the U.S. Olympic Trials in Eugene, Ore.
Earlier, the crowd went wild for Willamette University star Nick Symmonds.
Symmonds blazed the final 100 meters of his 800 meter qualifying race to win the heat in 1:59.01.
In a surprise that thrilled the Tracktown faithful, UO sophmore Andrew Wheating rode the wave of applause to win his 800 meter heat in a sparkling 1:47.85.
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