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For further information, contact: Top high-school milers return to Reebok Boston Indoor GamesBOSTON (Dec. 21) – Thanks to a phenomenal debut last winter, the Junior Invitational Mile will return to the Reebok Boston Indoor Games on Jan. 28, 2006, organizers announced today. With deep fields expected again for both the boys and girls, the event will again give elite international junior milers a chance to share the stage with some of the best track-and-field athletes in the world. Several top world-class athletes have already been announced, including Ethiopia’s Tirunesh Dibaba, the reigning World Champion at 5000m and 10,000m; Craig Mottram of Australia, the World Championship bronze medalist at 5000m; Ireland’s Alistair Cragg, the 3000m European Indoor Champion, and Sileshi Sihine of Ethiopia, the Olympic 10,000m silver medalist. In its inaugural year, the 2005 Junior Invitational Mile featured athletes from Scotland, Canada and all corners of the United States, including both 2004 Foot Locker Cross Country Champions. One, Aislinn Ryan of Warwick Valley (NY) High School, won the girls’ race in 4:49.92, one of the fastest U.S. indoor high school miles of the season. The boys’ race was won by Laef Barnes of Mead (WA) High School in 4:13.61. Barnes, the 2005 U.S. indoor mile leader, now competes for UCLA. Among the other athletes competing were 2004 Foot Locker Champion Kenny Cormier of Douglas (AZ) High School, who now runs for the University of Arkansas; and Jennifer Barringer of Oviedo (FL) High School, who was just named Big 12 Newcomer of the Year for her outstanding cross-country season at the University of Colorado. Over the past decade, the Reebok Boston Indoor Games, produced by Boston-based Global Athletics & Marketing, Inc., has been the site of four World Records and eight American Records. For the past three years the event has sold out. The 11th-annual Reebok Boston Indoor Games will be held at the Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center at Roxbury Community College, 1350 Tremont St., from 5:30 to 8 p.m. on Jan. 28, and will be broadcast Jan. 29 on ESPN2 from 3-4:30 p.m. It is the first stop in USA Track & Field’s Visa Championship Series. Tickets and information are now available on-line at www.BostonIndoorGames.com or by calling 1-866-GO-BIG06.
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