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Walter Dix takes serious approach to U.S. track championships

With no major international competitions on the horizon, many athletes treat nationals as another meet, but the sprinter has something to prove after an injury cut short his 2009 season and he had agent problems.

By Philip Hersh

10:30 PM PDT, June 24, 2010

DES MOINES, Iowa -- In this neither-here-nor-there track season, with no major international championship for U.S. athletes, many of the country's top track and field performers are treating the national championships as just another competition.