XC Nation has lost all credibility. What a joke they are. Most of the comments on the XC Nation website were critical of how they adjusted South Eugene's 4xMile time, so of course XC Nation deleted the all of the comments.
Latest on their web page at
http://xcnation.runnerspace.com/gprofile.php?mgroup_id=45417&do=news&news_id=268487
We @NHSCA have decided to delete all previous posts. These are high school athletes, to be toxic, blatantly seeking to make things personal is unbecoming of a member of the NSAF (National Scholastic Athletic Foundation). We have dug deep, done our research, provided the evidence and appealed to common sense.
The mark by South Eugene was hand timed. What we have asked is not unreasonable. Either adjust the hand timed marks or allow athletes of today the ability to try to break the 4-minute mile mark using stop watches and count them equally as those produced by Ryun, Lindgren, Danielson, Liquori, and Pre under the same conditions. Either make it equal or dismiss them all together.
Page 16 of the May 8, 1976 Eugene Register Guard explains the mark was produced at the Axemen Relays on the South Eugene Track. Here is the newspaper article. It is clear the marks were not rounded up. Prove us wrong.
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