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From New York City to Oregon to Holland and Switzerland, 2011 has been a big, whirlwind season for Delilah DiCrescenzo. Qualifying for her first US team on the track, setting a PB, and mixing it up with international fields the world-over, she has her sights set on making an Olympic run next season. Thanks to all you viewers for following along on this journey!

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What do you do with the pieces of a broken heart? In this case, you have your boyfriend try to do something really difficult to make you feel better. Delilah DiCrescenzo and her break-through season came to a halt thanks to a stress fracture. Back in New York, she copes with the disappointment the best way she knows how — with a pick-me-up from her friends — and prepares to look ahead to London 2012.

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Jet-setting and taking on the world’s best wherever you find them — it’s all part of the life of the professional track athlete. Delilah DiCrescenzo runs her last steeplechase before Worlds in Lucerne, Switzerland, looking to point herself in the right direction for Daegu 2011.

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Four track standouts from KIMbia Athletics will officially be representing the United States at the 2011 IAAF World Championships, after the USATF announced its delegation for Worlds today. Oregon Track Club member Shalane Flanagan will spearhead the KIMbia contingent headed to South Korea, as the runaway 10,000m Champion at June’s US Championships. With an Olympic Bronze in the same event in 2008 — and after earning the bronze medal at the World Cross Country Championships early this spring — Flanagan is undoubtedly one of the best American hopes for a medal in the distance events. Meanwhile, OTC teammate Matt Tegenkamp will also contend the 10,000 in Daegu, while Chris Solinsky takes the line in “The Five.”

Coming from the opposite American coast, NJNYTC’s Delilah DiCrescenzo rounds out the women’s steeplechase squad, and will go to Asia with a solid third place finish in Lucerne as her most recent steeple result. She plans to run the Falmouth Mile on August 13th as a final tune-up before Worlds.

Once in South Korea, Team KIMbia will be getting right down to business: heats in the women’s steeple start on the first day of competition, with the women’s 10,000m final taking place that evening. Read the full article

What happens when you take one of New York’s fastest athletes and stick her in a cute, little Dutch town? See Delilah DiCrescenzo run in the shadow of windmills (literally!) as she sets up camp in Holland and gets ready to hit the European racing circuit.

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