Did you know that the World Track & Field Championships

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Started today in Eugene, Oregon - this the the 1st time the event is being hosted in the US.

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1. Look at the school kids carrying the flags of the world

around the track.
Go Jamaica! Go Bigfoot!😀😀

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2. Birthplace of Nike

I understand there is gonna be a ton of free Nike bling floating around.

Oh, it's a Red Letter Day in track and field: The IOC voted to reinstate Thorpe as the sole winner of his two events on July 14, 2022

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3. Jim Thorpe should be receiving way more coverage

this week - racism denied him his place during his lifetime.
He was a great athlete in several sports

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4. More here

Jim Thorpe, stripped of his 1912 gold medals because he'd been paid to play minor league baseball, was reinstated Thursday as the sole winner of that year's Olympic decathlon and pentathlon by the International Olympic Committee.

Thorpe, voted the greatest athlete of the first half of the 20th century by The Associated Press, won the decathlon and pentathlon at the Stockholm Olympics. However, because he had played minor league baseball in 1909-10 -- earning a reported $2 per game to $35 per week -- he was stripped of the medals in 1913 for violating the existing amateurism rules. The Amateur Athletic Union in the United States withdrew Thorpe's amateur status, and the IOC unanimously stripped Thorpe for being a professional.


The decision has been controversial ever since, especially to Native American communities. Thorpe was a member of the Sac and Fox Nation, and was the first Native American to win a gold medal.
https://www.espn.com/olympics/story/_/id/34245374/ioc-reinstates-jim-thorpe-sole-winner-1912-olympic-decathlon-pentathlon

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5. Just heard a lovely interview with Bob Beamon

who is at the Champs

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6. Yep! Was Watching Earlier.

I've always been a big fan of T&F.
There's no event i can think of that i don't enjoy watching.
Well, race walking isn't my thing. Not sure if that counts as T&F.

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7. Here come the women's and men's 100m Heats

Let’s go Jamaica😀😀
By the way the Oregon facilities are fabulous

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8. Reuters

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EUGENE, Ore., July 15 (Reuters) - Allyson Felix was denied a golden goodbye at the World Championships after the United States took bronze behind Dominican Republic and Netherlands in a spectacular 4x400m mixed relay in Eugene, Oregon on Friday. ...

"I've had such good memories. I know it is time and these guys will carry it on into the future," she said. "I am at peace stepping into this next stage and have tremendous gratitude for this sport."

The race capped the opening day of action in Eugene, where organisers failed to fill the stands for the first World Championships on U.S. soil as they look to build a bigger American fan basefor the sport.

"Crowds tonight disappointing," American four-times Olympic gold medallist Michael Johnson tweeted. "This is not the ideal situation. Last race for Allyson Felix, icon of the sport and the stadium isn’t full?"

https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/sports/dominican-republic-win-4x400-mixed-relay-world-title-2022-07-16/

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9. That was great

The American 1,2,3 in the men’s 100m was special.
Big up the folks across Oregon for fabulous support.