lol a $1200 appearance fee for stephen haas to run what is a very good time, for a high schooler.
if i saw these results and did not know otherwise, i would think it was a high school race.
2 mile
1st-8:48
2nd-8:57
3rd-9:05
4th-9:11
i kind of think the $1200 appearance fee and $5000 to win a high school caliber race, may have been to lure to get rupp to show up for a glorified appearance.
i also wonder if good runners were excluded from the race, so they would not interfere with the hyping of webb, by maybe beating rupp.
this is if rupp had showed up as expected.
rupp has some real competition on february 11th in dusseldorf.