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...Everyone was capable of faster times but sacrificed individual performances for the team,” said junior Alasdair McLean-Foreman. “We lost the meet because we didn’t have anyone in the 60m through to 500m—if the meet had been scored using the events we actually competed in it would have been a different story...
...McLean-Foreman recounts his accomplishments in a modest and unfailingly even, polite tone. Aaron C. Barth ’04, McLean-Foreman’s roommate during their freshman and sophomore years, says McLean-Foremean is a stereotypical Brit. “Alasdair is very calm and thoughtful about everything he does,” he says, “but he also has an extremely sharp, subtle British wit.” Barth reports that McLean-Foreman frequently tosses around British slang (“bollocks” is a favorite), and says his natural British accent helped...
...only Harvard girls agreed with FM’s judgment. “Freshman year I went to Rice with the track team to practice over Spring Break,” McLean-Foreman says with a widening grin, “and we had some fun times.” He’s settled down a bit since then, though—he is currently dating Jennifer...
...McLean-Foreman shows his true British colors in his drink of choice. Former teammate Brandon Smith ’04 recalls one track party “where Alasdair, being an 800 meter runner and English, became ecstatic upon being given a 40 that combined both of these stellar qualities—it was none other than the finest malt liquor: Olde English 800. The smile on his face could not be contained.” And, Smith adds, “neither could the redness that flushed his face due to the alcohol he had already consumed...
After graduation, McLean-Foreman, an economics concentrator, plans to run competitively and take over direct management of HDO Sports. However, it may not be too long before Harvard’s track team imports another star from across the Atlantic—McLean-Foreman’s nine-year-old brother Ian, a promising runner in his own right, has already visited Harvard, and the recruiters need only wait—with bated breath—a brief eight years...