Mary Cain in Moscow The Finals:<\/strong> Cain bolted from the starting line and appeared to slightly bump into Jenny Simpson when they met at the front in the first 60 meters of the race. Simpson dictated the tempo early while Cain found a sweet spot on the rail. But the talented crowd of women in the race slowly began to move past Cain and by 900 meters she was at the tail end of the field. Meanwhile, Simpson showed her championship mettle by fighting for the win against world leader Abebe Aregawi (an Ethiopian who runs for Sweden). Simpson took the silver. Cain sped past two women in the final 200 to nab 10th in 4:07.19. Cain now owns the eight fastest HS 1,500 meter performances of all-time, including three from Moscow.<\/p> Jenny Simpson on Mary Cain:<\/strong> \"She spoke to me for a couple seconds and I told her to come see me afterwards. Every one keeps asking about me about her of course, of course, but I don't really know her at all. ... I have been told that I can be intimidating, which I don't think that's true, I hope I'm an approachable person. But I haven't really seen her much or or gotten a chance to speak positively into her life. This championships was about me being prepared and I was focused on me. Now that it's over I'd like to see her and make myself available to her as a teammate.\"<\/p> Mary Cain in the mixed zone: <\/strong>\"I'm not even, like, sad. I'm just angry. I think that' s a good thing. This was all a learning experience this whole meet and I think this is going to make me super-pissed for Beijing (in 2015) and I'm going to try and go in there and kill as many people as possible. I know I need to put this in perspective. So many kids my age would just die to do this. But I'm a tough person, I expected a lot from myself....<\/p> \"I don't know what happened, I really don't, but I was in there and I was running to win. That's crazy, I know. I think a lot of people didn't think I'd get out of the heats, let alone myself....<\/p> \"I'm going to go home and I'm going to get into this. This is my last race of the season. I think this is going to motivate me so much for next year. There's no worlds (in 2014). It's just me and learning how to race. We've already been talking about excited we are for all the form work we're going to do. ...<\/p> \"Alberto said to me before this, 'Mary, you could win or you could get 12th. And I got 10th, that's not really halfway (in between). ...<\/p> \"Jeez, though, I'm not sure what happened but you know what, maybe it's a good thing. Maybe when I get to to Beijing I won't be a terrified 19 year old. ...<\/p> \"(Simpson) has been awesome. She said come find me after the race. I'm here for you. And by that time I was near tears, you're the silver medalist. I'm so happy for her.\" ...<\/p> \"On the line I told myself that all these kids are 16 and there's no way I'm letting 16-year-olds beat me!\"...<\/p> \"I wanted to podium so I could get a toy mascot. I think you can buy them anyway. I was watching (Tirunesh) Dibaba get one after the 10K and I was like 'Jordan' (Hasay), watch out, I'm going to get that mascot.'\"<\/p> Round Two: <\/strong>Cain stayed in the pack moreso than she has in almost any race this sesaon, absorbing a few elbows along the way. She was about sixth for most of the final lap and then used her speed to move into position to nab fourth in the first of two semifinals (top five advanced). <\/p> After her race, Cain said:<\/p> \"I felt pretty good. That is my second fastest time ever, 4:05, by about a second, which is pretty crazy as you can imagine for me. My last race was (also) my second fastest, and that didn't really go great. I had a lot more in me. <\/p> \"Geez, they made that hard out there. I'm excited to see what the other (U.S.) girls do, but gosh I'm excited to be automatic (into the final). It was pretty close out there and it came down to a dip (at the finish line). You know, when I was younger, like I'm still in high school now but when I was running in high school competitions, a few times I got beaten by a dip. So I try to master that skill and I guess it worked out because out of the three of us (at the line) I think I was the number one person out there with that dip. So, fourth, I'll take it any day at the world championship semifinal. Hopefully I'll do the same thing in the final. That was a pretty hard effort for me, but I remember talking to Nick Symmonds -- he is so nice -- and he was like after the Olympic semifinal there was no way he was running any faster and he went out there and ran two seconds faster, so I look to him as a role model. Even though I'm exhausted hopefully I still have more in the tank. It is definitely a confidence boost.\"<\/p> Round One:<\/strong> Cain wore hip number 11 and eased her way through the first two laps, drifting to the back of the pack and even a meter off the end. She kept her eyes on the lead pack and trusted her kick to work for her at the end. Coming off the final turn, Cain was eighth and running wide in lane 3. But she had enough speed late to move up to sixth (.01 behind fifth) in 4:08.21. (Photo John Nepolitan)<\/p> The Storyline:<\/strong> America's sensational 17-year-old from Bronxville NY, who competes alongside the Nike Oregon Project with coach Alberto Salazar<\/a><\/strong>, is due to make her World Championships debut on Sunday (early a.m. U.S. time). Cain has set high school national records from 800 meters to 5,000 during a sensational season that made her one of the most talked about track and field athletes in the U.S. She qualified for the IAAF World Championships by placing second at the U.S. Outdoor Championships in the 1,500 meters. <\/p> RunnerSpace's IAAF World Championships hub.<\/a><\/p> Talk about Cain on the Message Board here.<\/a><\/p> A couple of links:<\/p> The Oregonian: Is Alexa Efraimson the next Mary Cain?<\/a><\/p> WSJ: New York Teen Takes on the World<\/a><\/p>![\"Mary](\"http:\/\/www.runnerspace.com\/members\/photos\/42418\/Cain2_full.jpg\")
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