* Conard (CT) junior Gavin Sherry is the second-fastest miler in the country returning in 2021
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At the turn of every year, we always ask a new but familiar question:
Will any boys athlete break the 4-minute mile barrier?
The historic mark has been accomplished just twice indoors all-time, while a total of 11 boys have achieved the feat outdoors, with Leo Daschbach becoming the latest -- and perhaps the effort being the most wild -- athlete to enter the club in May of this year at the Quaratine Clasico.
Interestingly enough, though, more than a handful of boys have hung around that barrier-crosser over the course of history. A total of three boys have run faster than 4:01 indoors -- each effort coming since 2017, in fact -- while a total of 15 athletes have been faster than 4:02 in history, on top of the sub-4 runners.
In some ways, the difference between history and just outside of it is separated by just a few feet.
But will it happen in 2021? In...
