• SUPER PREVIEW: YOUR GUIDE TO TRACK & FIELD IN 2011 • www.trackandfieldnews.com MARCH 2011 6 Big Questions For 2011: 1. Will Sprinting’s Super 3 Clash? 2. How Will The Diamond League Work? 3. Will Allyson Felix Double At The WC? 4. Can USATF Find Its Superman CEO? 5. How Good Are The U.S. Milers? 6. How Do You Make The World Champs Team? Can She Do Two? $3.99 US $4.50 Canada 200/400 Star Allyson Felix p01.indd 1 1/26/11 2:12:45 PM AAE ad T&F 2011 1/3/11 12:55 PM Page 1 of our 500+ products with promo code TFN2011 Now you can afford the quality brand. 20% OFF 20% OFF 20% OFF LG Lacrosse Goals HBS-2 BallStopper System List price $1,695.00 / pair List price $45.00/linear ft. 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No, I’m not channeling Marty McFly here in some kind of Back To The Future time warp; I’m referencing what many of you—indeed, I would hope most of you—have already discovered by the time this in-your-mailbox version of Track & Field News has reached you. Would you believe a That discovery would be that modern technology has allowed you to read T&FN T&FN without ink in a more timely fashion. or paper? Specifi cally, you’ve already been able to access the beta-test version of the online version of this issue of the magazine from our home page, good old www.trackandfi eldnews.com. (In a perfect world, it would be track&fi eldnews.com but the geeks who invented the internet never thought about THIRD EDITION 2009 the possibility of anything but letters and numbers in addresses.) 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So if you have a non-subscribing friend who Order your copy today. $22.50 you think might be interested in T&FN, be sure to clue them in as to this opportunity. per copy from Track & Field The more subscribers we have, the better we can serve you all. News, 2570 W El Camino Real, We recently got a letter (in the mail) from a longtime subscriber who said, “I hope, Suite 480, Mountain View, CA on behalf of us dinosaurs, the results in T&FN will never get so skimpy it can’t be used 94040. Calif. residents add 8¼% as a reference source for meets from the past. This is just one aspect of my crusade sales tax. Postage/handling: add to get the world to give up on these newfangled computer things and return to the $2.95 for US delivery, add $12 for days of the past when the LA Times would have a page and a half of track results on foreign delivery. Order online: a Sunday in track season. 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