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Indoor Track Becomes Relevant Again in Oregon - Inside the GamesPublished by
Oregon's Old Flame Flares Anew as Lananna and Co Fan New Life Into Indoor AthleticsPublished by Inside the Games on March 13, 2016 If the 2024 Games eventually come to the United States the Olympic flame will be making its way to California, rather than Oregon. But the latter state is about to revive its own honoured sporting flame - two decades after it died down to embers - as it prepares to host the International Association of Athletics Federations’ (IAAF) World Indoor Championships. The first occasion on which this biennial event has been contested in the United States since the inaugural meeting at Indianapolis in 1987 offers Oregon, and in particular Portland, the chance to add a significant, and long-awaited, chapter to its own vibrant history of indoor athletics. Just 100 miles south of the host city on the I-5 Pacific Highway, Eugene can boast a proud record on the outdoor track at Hayward Field which, since 1975, has hosted the annual Prefontaine Classic. That meeting, of course, was named in honour of Steve Prefontaine, whose hopes of improving on the fourth place he earned in the 1972 Olympic 5,000 metres final were tragically ended when he died on May 30, 1975, aged 24, after crashing his MGB convertible on Skyline Boulevard near his alma mater of the University of Oregon. Read the full article at: www.insidethegames.biz
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