1.   If he says that he might run the fastest mile ever run in the United States, chances are he will.

2.   It was one of the fastest mile fields ever assembled on these shores, and there was Matt Giusto right in the middle of it.

3.   Not because his record, the fastest mile by a high school sophomore, had fallen.

4.   It would be the fastest mile ever run in the United States.

5.   Lagat has the two fastest mile times in the world this year.