July 2018

Track and Field Contents Writers of P. 1 President’s Message America P. 3 2018 Awards Breakfast (Founded June 7, 1973) P. 4 Rebuild Starts With Razing of East Grandstand P. 5 Getty Images Announces Sad Passing of Steve Rose PRESIDENT Jack Pfeifer P. 5 Athletics Suffers Major Blow as Adidas Refuse to Pay Out Bonuses to Stars 216 Ft. Washington Ave., Wearing Nike GB Kit NY, NY 10032 P. 6 McChesney Family Memorial Rooted at Hayward Field Office/home: 917-579- 5392. Email: P. 7 USATF Board Meeting Recap - USOC Slams Mt. SAC Bid for Olympic Trials [email protected] P. 9 Women’s Decathlon: Overdue Game-Changer or Heptathlon Killer? P. 11 Dismantling of Historic Hayward Field East Grandstand in Eugene Starts with Removal SECRETARY- TREASURER of Wooden Bleachers Tom Casacky P. 13 The Chris Froome Ruling Just Broke Anti-Doping P.. Box 4288 P. 15 Tribute to Jon Hendershott Napa, CA 94558 Phone: 818-321-3234 P. 17 2018 TAFWA and FAST Awards Breakfast Email: [email protected] P. 26 Hayward Field Demo

FAST P. 29 Partial Fixtures List Dave Johnson Email: [email protected] President’s Message - July 2018 Phone: 215-898-6145 The East Grandstand WEBMASTER It is time to accept that Hayward Field is no more. The sport’s last remaining outdoor Palace in Michael McLaughlin the United States has been torn down, exemplified by the rushed destruction last month of the Email: [email protected] 99-year-old legendary East Grandstand, which dates to the days when the stadium was home not Phone: 815-529-8454 just to the Oregon track team but also its football team. There was a brief town scuffle over the fate of the East Grandstand. The private foundation NEWSLETTER EDITOR that is financing the new track stadium withheld its intention to knock down the grandstand Shawn Price Email: until the last moment, saying that because it was a private entity, it was under no obligation to [email protected] share any information. The track community in Eugene believed that only the newer but less Phone: 979-661-0731 adored West Grandstand – built in 1974 – was to be removed, along with the unsightly Bower- man Building. That had been the announced architectural plan a year earlier. That information was not updated until the last minute. A few concerned citizens quickly tried to organize around this sudden new development, ar- riving at a Eugene City Council meeting demanding action. They underestimated their opposi- tion, as this move had already been anticipated by Nike, the company that is apparently paying for the new stadium. The City Council’s attempted initial actions to protect the grandstand were quickly blocked -- not by Nike, which technically had no legal standing in the matter, but by the University itself. It seems that the Oregon president, Michael H. Schill, was in on the arrange- ment from the start. The university administration took care of the remaining dirty work, and within hours of the end of the NCAA championships on Saturday, June 9, destruction of the East Grandstand began. The new stadium is supposed to open April 2020. It is supposed to have 12,900 permanent seats, be a horseshoe construction, have a roof over at least some of the seats, and include a “tower” that will have office space formerly in the Bowerman Building. Phil Knight, the Nike founder who is presumably pay- ing for most of the construction, has already had to step back from using Bill Bowerman’s name on the tower, deferring to objections from the Bowerman family. Knight has also admitted that he is going to be unpopular for tearing down the East Grandstand. It’s not clear how much animosity will remain in the Eugene track community over the way this project has been handled. Will season ticket sales decline? Or, looking at a gleaming new stadium, will opposition evaporate? There is precedent in Eu- gene for this. After a long, protracted attempt by the university to tear down beloved McArthur Court – the school’s basket- ball arena since 1926 – was built in 2011. That new building has stadium-style seating, not bleachers – more comfortable for alumni who buy the season tickets and make donations, but frequently do not show up for the games themselves. The student body, who had the best seats in the house at Mac Court and as a result gave the place a notorious homecourt advantage, has been removed to out-of-the-way seating. Will this tradeoff – shiny, boring new for passionate, packed-in old – be Hayward Field’s fate as well? Those of us here at the TAFWA Home Office do not know what the plans are for media services and media seating in the new Hayward Field. We were not consulted in any way. No detailed plans have been released regarding this aspect of the structure. We do assume that the electronic part of the infrastructure will be state of the art, and it is our understanding that there will be an elevator at the rear of at least one side of the grandstand, which would be helpful to members of the press who now have to run up and down multiple flights of stairs to do their jobs. Heck, even Sac State has an elevator. We also do not know about physical plans for still photography and television, though we suspect the latter has been duly consulted. We also do not know about parking, though we assume that no new parking places will materialize. On the contrary, it is our understanding that 15th Street – the street directly north of the stadium – will be closed permanently and become a walkway, eliminating some 150 existing parking spaces.

2020 Olympic Trials USATF announced that the new host of the Trials would be announced on Friday, June 8. That came and went. Since then it has been announced that there are now three finalists for the Trials – Eugene, Sacramento, and Austin, Texas. Mt. SAC is gone away, and we wonder if the new Hilmer Lodge Stadium will ever get built, given the continuing lawsuits and financial battles. If it does, Mt. SAC could be a future home to such meets as the NCAA and the USATF, given the excellent climate and location. But first the school will have to rebuild its credibility. Meantime, the Mt. SAC Invitational continues to be held at other locations each April. Eventually, does the name change, or that meet die off? Speaking of that, what of the 2019 ? With Hayward Field out of the picture, it is our understanding that the 2019 Pre – which is to be held a month later than usual, because of the lateness of next year’s World Championships and USA selection meet – will remain in Eugene, at Lane Community College. To accommodate the event, some 8,000 temporary seats are expected to be set up, and the meet is expected to be a one-day event, dropping the Friday schedule. We expect the event to tax the two-year school’s infrastructure considerably, but this is a way to keep the event in Eugene, a real plus for meet organizers. It would return to Hayward Field by the spring of 2020, assuming that the new building is completed on time. Similar relocation issues have arisen regarding the NCAA Championships and the Oregon state high school champion- ships, demonstrating the crucial role adequate facilities play in this and any other sport. The Oregon high school association plans to break its current six-meet event into three parts and move them around the state. One meet would be held in Portland – possibly Mt Hood Community College – one at Western Oregon in Monmouth, and possibly the third in Bend. This way, the anticipated crowds can be accommodated at each smaller locale. As for the NCAA, as previously announced, the University of Texas will be the host school for 2019 and 2020, and the meet will return to Eugene for 2021 and 2022. Then of course, there’s also those pesky World Championships – technically that is the main reason given for the New Hayward Field – set for Eugene in 2021. Word has it that a new organization is being formed in Eugene to handle the final three-year run-up to the big event. Rumor has it that this new org may actually take the place of the TrackTown group, includ- ing changes in the management team. This could mean the permanent end of TrackTown as an entity. We are not sure what any of this means, and it’s hard to find out because the principals in the organizations mentioned above rarely give a straight answer to anything. As for the 2020 Trials, Eugene – host of the previous three – is the presumed frontrunner. After all, they would have a gleaming new stadium. The main sticking point would be Eugene’s inability to guarantee completion on time. Nothing much has changed at Sac State – honestly, who wants to go back there? As for Austin, it is a vibrant city full of en- ergy. It has far more places to eat and stay than Eugene. It actually has direct flights from other time zones, and has a stadium that seats 18,000. Texas is a bigtime university. The weather in the summer, however, would be disastrous for the distance events. The stadium has no overhead protection, whether in 100-degree heat or the torrential rainstorms that frequently pass through town. Stay tuned. TAFWA Newsletter - Page 2 - July 2018 2018 Awards Breakfast The remainder of TAFWA’s awards for 2018 were presented before a packed house at , on the university campus, on Friday morning June 8. Many were also in attendance to be part of a Memorial honoring our dear friend Jon Hendershott, who died suddenly this spring in Salem after his recent retirement from Track & Field News. 2018 Don Potts FAST Award for statistical contributions went to Bill Peck, of Hemet, Calif. Bill, who is in his 80s and lives in assisted living, was not in attendance. It is our intention to locate Bill and give him this well-deserved honor in per- son. Jack Shepard prepared the following bio: As outstanding as he is as a statistician, Bill may have been just as good as an athlete. A graduate of Hollywood High, Bill served in the Marines and entered Occidental College in the late 1950s. Elected to the Occiden- tal Track Hall of Fame, Bill (Class of ’61) was an NCAA steeplechase placer (6th in ’60, 8th in ’61), Olympic Trials steepler (running barefoot) [a dnf], an AAU medalist, and added the 5,000 and 10,000 (30:38.0 in ’60) to his repertoire. His best steeple time was 9:09.3 in 1960. He easily qualifies as the best T&F athlete from amongst all the FAST winners. As a track historian and publisher, Bill’s career began in the 1960s while at Oxy. I remember receiving high school compilations in the early ’60s that Bill had gathered from old NCAA, AAU and Spalding guides. For many years, until the late ’70s, Bill compiled stats for the age-group publication Starting Line. More recently, he was co-author (with Tom Casacky) of The California State High School Meet 1915-2006. Not one to rest from duty, Bill is currently gathering data with Tom for a new book, updating the California state meet and adding the complete results of all the state’s sectional championship meets. /Jack Shepard, June 2018/ Announcing Awards Cheryl Davis was on hand from Los Angeles to accept the Pinkie Sober Lifetime Achievement Award on behalf of the late Stan Eales, and then present the award named for her late husband, Scott Davis, to Dixon Farmer. Cheryl told the story of how Scott got his start in major track meet announcing with the assistance and encouragement of his fellow Angeleno Eales. Farmer, yet another SoCal resident, was unable to attend the ceremony but sent the following acceptance remarks: Jack....My thanks to you and your committee for selecting me for this honor. Almost 40 years ago I began announcing track meets as a knee jerk reaction to our regular announcer at San Diego State not show- ing up for a meet. Although I enjoyed the experience for which I was woefully underprepared, the following year we decided to ask someone else whom we knew to be actively involved in the statistical end of the sport, to take on the announcing chores. His name... Scott Davis. The rest, as they say, is history. To accept an award named in honor of Scott gives me pause for reflection and gratitude to be able to stay involved in a sport that has been a major part of my life for 65 years. Many, many thanks Dixon 2018 Sam Skinner Memorial Award for exemplary cooperation with track and field journalists went to Shawn Price, of Texas A&M. Shawn has been the exemplary TF assistant SID for A&M for a number of years. 2018 Adam Jacobs Blogging Award went to TheSportsExaminer.com and its editor and publisher, Rich Perelman. While technically not a website, TheSportsExaminer.com is a web-driven, E-newsletter covering all Olympic sports begun two years ago by Perelman. Rich was on hand to receive the award in person. 2018 Bud Greenspan Memorial Award for excellence in track and field film & video went to “Boston – The Documen- tary,” a feature-length film on the bombing at the Boston Marathon, made by LA Roma Films. Mike Fanelli, of the Bay Area, accepted the award on behalf of the producers, Jon Dunham, Megan Williams and Eleanor Bingham Miller. 2018 Cordner Nelson Award for a body of work in writing about track & field went to the editor (Garry Hill) and publish- ers (Ed Fox, emeritus, and Janet Vitu) of Track & Field News magazine, founded in Los Altos, Calif., in 1948 by Cordner and his brother, Bert. The magazine recently ceased its print version but continues online. Ed Fox made acceptance remarks on behalf of all of the magazine’s writers and contributors, including Sieg Lindstrom, who was also in the audience, and followed this up by speaking fondly of his longtime colleague Jon Hendershott. The re- mainder of the morning was dedicated to storytelling by others in the audience about Jon, including heartfelt comments by members of Jon’s family, who had come a long distance to participate. TAFWA was more than happy to be able to provide an appropriate setting. Thanks to the tireless efforts of photographer Kim Spir, a visual record of this year’s Breakfast appears later in this Newsletter.

Awards 2019 to 2021 TAFWA has begun looking for a suitable setting, possibly on campus, for our 2019 Awards Breakfast during the NCAA Championships in Austin. It is not known yet whether a Winter Awards Dinner will be held in New York next February. In 2020, because it is an Olympic year, we hope to hold a major event during the Trials. We will know more once the host site is announced. We anticipate a similar activity in Eugene in 2021 at the World Championships. TAFWA Newsletter - Page 3 - July 2018 Hayward Field rebuild starts with razing of East Grandstand By Alisha Roemeling & Dylan Darling | Eugene Register Guard http://www.registerguard.com/news/20180622/hayward-field-rebuild-starts-with-razing-of-east-grandstand The legacy of the East Grandstand at Hayward Field in 1992. Klinger said he didn’t know when workers took decades to build. would destroy the West Grandstand. It only took a day to knock it down. “I do not have any information about what the next A team of construction workers fired up excava- phase will be,” he said. tors and began the demolition of the 93-year-old East The East Grandstand demolition drew onlookers and Grandstand about 7 a.m. Friday. By 5 p.m. the wooden elicited bittersweet memories. structure was a pile of rubble. Peter Tag, 64, said he has lived in the neighborhood Throughout the day, sounds of destruction echoed near Hayward Field for 40 years. He stopped by Friday through neighborhoods near the University of Or- to snap photos with his smartphone. egon. The largest timbers created booms as loud as A track fan, he said he understood why the UO was thunder when they hit the ground. taking down the old building. Still, it was hard to see it The controversial demolition of the iconic structure go. is the major first step in the UO’s plans to use a cor- “It’s just a sad feeling ...” he said. “You just always wish poration controlled by Nike co-founder Phil Knight to they could progress and preserve history, too.” build a new track and field stadium at Hayward Field The smell of old timber wafted across Agate Street. by 2020. Tag said the sharp scent reminded him of an attic. The city of Eugene on June 1 issued a demolition Almost every day, Michael and Glenda Utsey, a pair permit authorizing crews to raze the structure on the of retired UO architecture instructors, walk their dog UO campus. An ad hoc group opposed to the plan said along Agate. The couple, in their 70s, paused to watch it was set to file an appeal Friday to a state board, calling the the East Grandstand’s end. for public comment before the grandstand came down. “It’s sad,” Michael Utsey said, “but, on the other hand, But the group didn’t get the appeal filed in time, said it’s had its life.” Bob Penny, leader of the East Grandstand Supporters. The tear-down of the grandstand has become the Members of the group knew they faced long odds in most controversial aspect of the Hayward Field rebuild. stopping the UO and Knight’s renovation plans for Hay- The new stadium will have a nine-lane track and ac- ward Field, and that even earning a historic designation commodate up to 30,000 spectators for special events, likely wouldn’t be enough to save the old structure. including the 2021 IAAF World Track & Field Champi- Frustrated and tired, Penny sounded like a runner who onships. Its seating capacity for regular events is listed had been beaten to the finish line. at 12,900. The stadium will contain classroom and lab “We always knew there was never a legal silver bullet,” space for the Department of Human Physiology and he said. the Bowerman Sports Science Clinic. A neighboring UO spokesman Tobin Klinger described the work be- nine-story tower will house interpretive exhibits and an ing done Friday as the “pre-construction process,” part observation deck overlooking the track. of preparing the site for a new stadium. As the demolition neared its end Friday afternoon, “There are a couple of earth-movers that are doing the crowd of onlookers swelled to about 50 people, the removal in a way that is intended to allow us to con- including Peter Craycroft, a 74-year-old who has lived tinue to salvage materials as we go through this process, in Eugene since 1961. He took photos of the destruction for future use,” Klinger said. with a camera equipped with a long lens. Workers sprayed water on the grandstand as excava- While he didn’t count himself as a member of the tors pulled it apart. The water was meant to minimize East Grandstand supporters, he said he believed in their dust and debris from being released into the air. A pair cause. And he had hoped that the UO would find a way of forklifts moved large pieces of the East Grandstand to keep the old grandstand while making a new stadium support structure and stacked them nearby after the at Hayward Field. excavators had plucked the beams from the debris pile. He compared the East Grandstand to something With most students gone for the summer, the UO sacred, like a rare Stradivarius violin. campus was quiet Friday morning. But the sounds of “You don’t destroy the Stradivarius,” he said. “You the excavator pulling apart the grandstand and the didn’t have to take this down.” wood falling to the ground reverberated around the stadium at East 15th Avenue and Agate Street. Comment from Bill Harbaugh, UOmatters.com: The demolition work will also remove Hayward It’s not cheap to find a man willing to say things like this – Field’s West Grandstand, which was rebuilt in 1975, and though I’m not sure why UO is paying Mr. Klinger to carry the Bowerman Family Building, which was completed water for Paul Weinhold’s UO Foundation. TAFWA Newsletter - Page 4 - July 2018 Getty Images announces sad passing of a giant of the golden age of sports photography, Steve Rose LAUSANNE, June 11, 2018 - Getty Images’ Senior Director for Sport, EMEA, Steve Rose has died aged 54, the foremost stock photo agency announced. In an email received by AIPS on Monday, Ken Mainardis, Senior Vice Presi- dent Global Editorial, Getty Images broke the sad news: “I am writing to share the sad news that our Senior Director for Sport, EMEA and close friend, Steve Rose, passed away on Sunday morning in fol- lowing a heroic 15-month fight against illness. “Steve Rose was a giant of the golden age of sports photography. He began his career at Allsport, the business that became Getty Images Sport, in Sep- tember 1983 working all the way through the organisation from dark room to Director of Photography. Steve was well-known and liked across the industry for his commitment to quality and a total dedication to elevating the craft of sports photography. “During his career, Steve managed the Getty Images UK and EMEA sports teams, producing and developing the finest sports photography talent and teams in the world today. “We will miss Steve greatly and our thoughts are with his family at this time.” Senior Vice President Global Strategic Development, Getty Images, Lee Mar- Steve Rose tin also paid tribute to his dear friend and colleague. He told Photoarchivenews: “We started together at Allsport in 1983 so worked together man and boy for 35 years. I will miss him so much his sense of humour was legendary he played a massive part in helping build the Allsport Agency and then the Getty Images Sports business he was respected by every Sport Photographer in the industry should they be Getty Images or competitors that was the mark of the man. RIP Rosie.” Athletics World Cup suffers major blow as Adidas refuse to pay out bonuses to stars wearing Nike GB kit By Riath Al-Samarrai | Daily Mail | http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/article-5917047/Athletics-World- Cup-suffers-major-blow-key-stars-pull-adidas.html The troubled Athletics World Cup has suffered another blow after Adidas told their stable of athletes that they would not receive any competition bonuses for taking part. Sportsmail exclusively revealed in May that a number of the sport’s biggest names would not appear at this month’s inaugural edition at the over gripes about the absence of appearance money and its place in a congested schedule. Now, in a further difficult episode for its organisers at British Athletics, we can reveal that Adidas has informed its spon- sored athletes that the bonuses they would ordinarily receive for appearing in competitions such as or major championships will not apply in London. Sportsmail understands that numerous Adidas athletes have subsequently opted against competing, with the situation exac- erbated for the British team, whose kit sponsor is Nike. Ordinarily an Adidas athlete would be given contractual dispensation by their sponsor to run in Nike kit for their country at certain competitions, but no such exemptions have been made for the Athletics World Cup. It is an indication of the political challenges British Athletics face in launching what is a genuinely exciting concept. But it is also yet another painful setback for the fledgling event, which will see eight nations face off against one another on two days across July 14 and 15. Laura Muir is not taking part and among the sprinters, which is typically the marquee draw for the sport, Adidas athlete will skip it, as will British champion Reece Prescod, Diamond League series winner CJ Ujah, 200m national champion Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake and Dina Asher-Smith, the British record holder for 100m and 200m. Adam Gemili is also not running. Sportsmail previously revealed that the US team will also be significantly weakened. Adidas athlete Noah Lyles, the fastest man in the world this year, is not coming over, and nor is world 60m champion . Justin Gatlin, Tori Bowie, Christian Taylor, Allyson Felix, Dalilah Muhammad, Tianna Bartoletta and Brianna McNeal are all skipping the meet. UK Athletics chief executive Niels de Vos has previously labelled the event as ‘a magic bullet’ for the sport, but figures within athletics are already questioning if it has been correctly executed.

TAFWA Newsletter - Page 5 - July 2018 McChesney family memorial rooted at Hayward Field By Austin Meek | Eugene Register Guard | http://www.registerguard.com/sports/20180623/austin- meek-mcchesney-family-memorial-rooted-at-hayward-field The McChesney family tree has deep roots in Eugene’s ed years on behind-the-scenes dithering, then ramrodded a running community. total rebuild with little regard for community support. Even Bill McChesney Sr., now 90, was a longtime meet official if the finished product ends up being spectacular, it will be at Hayward Field, a record-setting Masters runner and, hard to forget the dysfunctional process that preceded it. with his wife Marcia, a fixture at local running events for Nobody’s putting it on a plaque, but Phil Knight’s quote decades. Their four sons — Tom, Steve, Ken and Bill Jr. — about being the most reviled man in Eugene hangs over graduated from South Eugene, and three went on to run at the whole project. I’m sure a lot of people were thinking of Oregon in the 1970s and 1980s. that line when the excavators arrived Friday morning. And while Knight writes the biggest checks, he’s hardly the only It’s Bill Jr., not Steve Prefontaine, who holds the Oregon person culpable for Hayward’s messy demise. record in the 5,000 meters. The U.S. boycott of 1980 cost him a chance to run in the Olympics, but his third-place fin- If you ask people close to the process, they believe Knight ish at the 1980 Trials at Hayward Field remains one of the fell under the spell of a project manager, Howard Slusher, iconic races in the stadium’s history. who had little regard for Hayward’s history. Knight, I think, would say that calls to save the East Grandstand were The McChesney family has endured seasons of sorrow, guided more by nostalgia than rationality. It’s a debate that too. Tom died in a bicycle accident in 1986 at the age of 30. could have raged forever had the demolition crew not put it Bill Jr. lost his life six years later in a car accident near the to rest Friday morning. Oregon coast. A friend of the family arranged a memorial outside of As jarring as it was to see the East Grandstand leveled Hayward Field, planting a flowering dogwood tree and in a single day, expediency might have been for the best. installing a bronze plaque. Last week, Steve McChesney got It’s time to move on. With respect to the East Grandstand some unsettling news from the group advocating to save the supporters, prolonging the process with further appeals and East Grandstand. Their plaque had been removed, and the protests was only going to create more division. tree was in danger of being cut down as part of the Hayward “Unfortunately, we were just too late,” said Bob Penny, Field renovation. who’d organized the effort to save the grandstand. ” ... We apologize that we failed.” “It would have been nice to have a heads up,” Steve McChesney said from his home in Massachusetts. “No one The sad part is, it didn’t have to be this way. Renovating (from the university) reached out to us.” Hayward Field was going to be a contentious process no The UO says the plaque is in storage with other items that matter what, but Oregon could have preempted much of the might be displayed in the new stadium. The family hasn’t backlash by engaging more openly with the community. So gotten a definitive answer about the tree, but a UO spokes- many complaints, like the McChesney family’s, could have man said he wasn’t aware of plans to preserve memorial been addressed with a simple phone call. trees planted near the old stadium. On one hand, arguing over the fate of a single tree is very much a Eugene controversy. On the other hand, it’s com- As excavators knocked down the East Grandstand on munity relations 101. It’s recognizing that the small stuff Friday, Steve McChesney fought back feelings of grief and matters, and the deeper the sentimental attachment, the frustration. harder you have to work to convince people that what you’re “The tree is the place I go to remember my family,” he doing is right. said. “It’s the place I feel most at home and where I go to say hi to my older brothers.” Oregon didn’t work very hard to build community sup- port. As a result, it doesn’t have much. Now there are people This is yet another example of how Oregon took a delicate like Steve McChesney, loyal supporters of Eugene’s track process and addressed it with all the subtlety of a wreck- community, who feel like they’ve been caught on the wrong ing ball. The university had six years to renovate Hayward side of history. Field before the 2021 World Championships. That time “To me,” he said, “Track Town is no longer Track Town.” could have been spent reaching out to the stadium’s many patrons, heading off potential controversies, making plans I think a lot of people were feeling that way Friday after- to preserve items with sentimental or functional value. noon, watching the last of the East Grandstand’s timbers come down. Instead, the UO made a premature announcement, wast- You can cut down the tree, but the roots still run deep. TAFWA Newsletter - Page 6 - July 2018 USATF Board Meeting Recap- USOC Slams Mt. SAC Bid For Olympic Trials By Weldon Johnson | Letsrun.com | http://www.letsrun.com/news/2018/06/usatf-board-meeting-recap- usoc-slams-mt-sac-bid-olympic-trials-thank-goodness-embarrassment-behind-us/ DES MOINES, Iowa — At the start of this morning’s USATF Board of Directors meeting, Chester Wheeler, the director of marketing and sales of the United States Olympic Committee, addressed the Board and said there are three finalists to host the 2020 Olympic Track and Field Trials. Wheeler did not disclose the names of the final- ists, but USATF CEO Max Siegel revealed they are Eugene, Austin, and Sacramento. Wheeler then had scathing remarks on Mt. SAC, which had been selected to host the Trials before USATF pulled out due to, among other things, litigation concerns in regards to their stadium which is under construction.

Wheeler indicated Mt. SAC did not keep USATF informed about the lawsuits and said, “it was a litigation nightmare.” He mentioned “stuff they were hiding from us.” His overall assessment was very harsh.

“The fact we got out of this when we did was fortuitous,” Wheeler said. “We would have had a mess and our Trials would have been at a risk going forward. Thank goodness that embarrassment is behind us.”

Wheeler’s remarks were very brief, but he also said the first time he met with the Mt. SAC people (presumably after they had been awarded the Trials by USATF) the tone was very different than when the USOC met with previous hosts says, saying the hosts at Mt. SAC were asking whether “we (the hosts) get free clothes. It was such a totally different experience that it raised a red flag.”

Wheeler said since the timetable for the 2020 Trials is now shorter, it would make sense to emulate what worked in the past. That would seem to favor Eugene and Sacramento, which have combined to host the last five Trials, but Eugene’s stadium is not complete, which was part of the problem with Mt. SAC.

“We did an internal SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats) analysis on the three cities bidding on the Trials,” said USATF CEO Max Siegel, who added that the Board will conduct an internal call about them sometime during the next two weeks.

******* This was the first in-person board meeting without USATF president Vin Lananna, who was controversially placed on leave by the Board at the last physical meeting allegedly due to fact that the bid for Eugene to host the 2021 Worlds is under investigation by the Department of Justice. (In February, LetsRun.com discussed whether placing Lananna on leave rather than removing him from office was a “silent coup.” Placing him on leave only requires a majority vote from the Board, while removal takes a 2/3 Board vote, and also then lets the members appoint a new President.)

Board member Fred Finke tried to re-open discussion on Lananna’s suspension, but his measure was voted down, eight to five with two abstentions. Finke, who was in El Salvador with the NACAC XC team when the vote to suspend Lananna was taken, gave the impression he was purposely sent to El Salvador so he couldn’t vote on Lananna’s suspension. Lananna was temporarily removed from office under under Article 10F, which is meant for people “temporarily unable to serve.” (USATF still has not released the notes of the meeting that breaks down the vote to suspend Lananna, but sources tell us Finke’s vote would not have been material to the outcome).

Finke noted, “[Lananna] is able to serve (and is in town in Des Moines).” Board Chair Steve Miller responded, “[Just because] he is down the street, that doesn’t mean he is able to serve.”

Finke noted the investigation could take years and it wasn’t fair for the Board to act as “judge and jury” for Lananna, but Miller said, “There is nothing we can do. We are protecting the organization.”

TAFWA Newsletter - Page 7 - July 2018 Miller also said Lananna’s lawyer said he would produce a letter saying Lananna was not personally implicated in the investigation and “that letter has not been produced.”

******* A lot of change could be coming to the Board with Board Chair Steve Miller’s term expiring in December (more on Miller below). Unless the rules change, he will have to leave the Board as a result. To bring some conti- nuity to the Board (which in LRC’s opinion is a bad thing as much of the questionable decisions made by USATF have been made by the Board), a motion was brought up to re-appoint two independent Board Members whose terms are up this year, Jackie Joyner-Kersee and Mickey Carter (a law school classmate of Siegel). This passed 9 to 6.

As noted by activist Becca Gillespy Peter, the vote itself violates Article 11H of the USATF bylaws. 11H says the Nominating and Governance Panel has to select the independent Board Members even if they are exist- ing Board Members extending their terms. In addition to the violation of 11H, both Board Members voted for themselves which is a conflict of interest, but the vote would have passed without their votes. (Vin Lananna was forced to remove himself from voting when the Board voted to place him on leave).

Other highlights/lowlights:

• Board Chair Steve Miller said, “Track and field is in the best shape it’s ever been.” He acknowledged that didn’t mean things couldn’t be better. On the negative he said, “the political structure of our organization is in trouble” and “I don’t think this board understands confidentiality.” • Jeff Porter of the Athletes Advisory Committee said the athletes are concerned about the schedule for the 2019 World Champs and how it impacts the ability to do the 100/200 double, the 200/400 double, and the 5000/10000 double. • Siegel said a new automotive sponsor may come on board soon with the discussions at the “term sheet” level and the discussions have been going on for more than a year and a half. He also spoke of a technology com- pany possibly coming on as a sponsor and that they had meetings at “one of their headquarters” in Portland. Siegel said “we have to figure out an effective way to communicate with all of our stakeholders… and figure out what to do when everyone doesn’t agree.” • The IAAF is trying to work to give athletes more logo space on jerseys, but a limiting factor is renegotiat- ing its long-term contract with marketing company Dentsu, which has limitations on logos in place. Siegel is actively involved with this as he is the chair of the IAAF Marketing Commission. • Becca Gillespy Peter addressed the Board and raised concerns about the level of sexual abuse in high school track and field and suggested a variety of ways USATF’s existing SafeSport efforts could be enhanced in hopes that they could begin to have an impact beyond the scope of the NGB. She also noted not all the volunteers in Des Moines are compliant with Safe Sport. • Lauren Fleshman said many athletes are concerned it costs $350 yearly among three services (USATF/Run- nerSpace+, NBC Sports Gold, and Flotrack) to watch track online. She asked if nothing can be done about the cost can the athletes have some input on the broadcasts and use split screen better. She said, “A lot of athletes and their parents [are the ones] paying that money.” Siegel said if the concerns were brought to him USATF could do something with the broadcasts it has under its control/influence on (USATF+, NBC Gold). • Stephanie Hightower hopes to be “vying” for one of the IAAF Vice President spots as, due to a new rule, it is required that one go to a woman.

Quick Take: The fact that the Board in essence permanently suspended Lananna at its last meeting instead of removing him from office was suspect enough, but today’s actions which violate USATF Article 11H cannot be allowed to stand. Change will not come to USATF without a new Board and the Board should not be allowed to violate USATF rules to protect its own by illegally extending their terms.

TAFWA Newsletter - Page 8 - July 2018 Women’s decathlon: overdue game-changer or heptathlon killer? By Sean Ingle | The Guardian | https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/jun/25/olympic-games-wom- en-decathlon-heptathlon-ennis-hill-sean-ingle

Japan’s Kinue Hitomi winning a 100m qualifying heat at the 1928 Olympics Games in . Hitomi helped break a major barrier in women’s sport by winning the first silver in the 800m final. Photograph: The Asahi Shimbun/Getty Images Ninety years ago this summer the Times’ man at the Nowadays the men’s and women’s programmes are Amsterdam Olympics sent a startling dispatch from identical in every respect but one – women compete in the athletics. “The final of the race for girls heptathlon, over seven events, rather than decathlon, rather tended to leave the impression that such things over 10. And that, for some, is the final frontier in the should not be,” he wrote, barely cloaking his prejudice battle for equality in athletics. in concern. “The half-dozen prostrate and obviously distressed forms lying on the side of the track may not Next weekend that battle will become a lot spicier warrant a complete condemnation of the girl athletic when the first USA Track and Field-approved women’s championships but it certainly suggests unpleasant decathlon championship takes place in California. It is, possibilities.” says Becca Peter, the event’s athlete co-ordinator, a po- tential game changer because until now there has been Those “unpleasant possibilities” soon became de- little incentive for women to compete in decathlons or pressing realities. The runners were merely tired after race directors to put them on. the race, won in a world record time. But the Interna- tional Olympic Committee ruled that the 800m was “I don’t want to bash the heptathlon, which is an far too tough for women – and promptly banned it amazing event,” she says. “But it is less demanding from the Games for the next 32 years. than the decathlon, which is widely seen as finding the world’s best all-round athlete. What kind of message For years afterwards the movement towards equal- does that send to women and girls? In effect, they are ity remained on the slow side of glacial. It took until being told they can’t be the world’s greatest athlete, 1984 before women were allowed to run in an Olympic that they can’t do as many events as men. And that marathon; another 16 years before women’s isn’t right.” was introduced; and – don’t laugh – the women’s stee- plechase was not included in the Games until 2008. It is a persuasive argument and it has the support TAFWA Newsletter - Page 9 - July 2018 of some on the IAAF women’s committee. Yet most can do 10 events,” he says. “But the heptathlon is a heptathletes and coaches, publicly and privately, are fine test standing alone. My gut tells me to leave it be adamant it would be a terrible idea. unless heptathletes and their coaches are polled and wish otherwise. Some committee of so-called experts Partly they believe there is no great thirst for should not be in the business of making decisions they change, given that women already have the heptath- have little knowledge of.” lon. But they also fear there is a higher risk of injury with the women’s decathlon because it has a different Some of this antipathy comes from an understand- order of field events on day one and day two to avoid able desire of heptathletes to hold on to what they scheduling conflicts when men’s and women’s decath- have. There is room for only one combined event on lons take place simultaneously. the Olympic track and field programme. So why should they be like turkeys voting for Christmas? That, says Toni Minichiello, the highly respected coach of the London 2012 heptathlon champion, Jes- The American Kendall Williams is one of the few sica Ennis-Hill, is a recipe for disaster. “Those events current heptathletes to have shown an interest in are in a certain order for a reason,” he says. “If the high the decathlon but the thought of learning technical jump is the ninth event rather than the fourth, as it is events, such as the pole vault and discus, gives many in the women’s decathlon, it risks greater injuries.” nightmares. Perhaps, though, their worries are over- stated. After all, the current women’s decathlon world Minichiello believes Ennis-Hill, one of Britain’s most record holder, the Lithuanian Austra Skuiyte, also won popular athletes, would have left combined events if heptathlon silver at the 2004 Olympics and bronze at the decathlon was introduced. And he insists athlet- London 2012. ics would be better served focusing on a new era of heptathletes. Peter, for her part, says she is sympathetic to any concerns and merely wishes to offer women more Another top coach, Les Gramantik, who trains the choice. “If there is ever going to be a switch to the Olympic decathlon bronze medallist Damian Warner, women’s decathlon, you need at least eight years – or is even more sceptical. “Reversing the order of the two Olympic cycles – to implement it as it is unfair to events for women is a terrible sequence considering destroy the career of a current elite heptathlete,” she the physical challenge of the events, where day one says. would be predominantly technical, followed by speed power on day two,” he warns. “Women have a great Such a bedding-in period would take us to the 2028 and exciting event called heptathlon, so leave it alone. Olympics – as well as marking the 100-year anniver- I know I will not coach women for decathlon.” sary of the IOC’s decision to ban the 800m because it was too strenuous for women. Supporters of the Meanwhile Harry Marra, the legendary coach of women’s decathlon believe it would be an ideal riposte the decathlon world record holder, Ashton Eaton, and to that heinous act. Others, though, still need convinc- the heptathlon Olympic bronze medallist Brianne ing. Theisen-Eaton, also urge caution. “Of course women

TAFWA Newsletter - Page 10 - July 2018 Dismantling of historic Hayward Field East Grandstand in Eugene starts with removal of wooden bleachers By Christian Hill | Eugene Register Guard | http://www.registerguard.com/news/20180611/disman- tling-of-historic-hayward-field-east-grandstand-in-eugene-starts-with-removal-of-wooden-bleachers Plank by plank, the East Grandstand at the University of Or- egon’s Hayward Field began to pass into history Monday.

In a first step toward dismantling the 93-year-old grandstand, workers removed original seat boards and placed them in a truck. The salvaged Douglas fir bleacher seats are among numerous items that are to be reused in a modern stadium that is to be built on the same site as Hayward Field in time for the 2021 World Track and Field Championships.

A fence is to be installed around the site next week, the university said. The university has not announced specifically when the east and west grandstands and the Bowerman Family Building will be razed, but the work is expected to begin next month. The city issued the project’s demolition permit June 1.

The start of the venue’s dismantlement angered members of a group who are seeking to stop the East Grand- stand’s destruction.

Throughout the day, people arrived at Powell Plaza, which honors the legacy of the venue known informally as U.S.track and field’s Carnegie Hall, to peer through green gates and pay what could be their final respects to the iconic venue.

The stadium’s privately funded rebuild, led by Nike co-founder Phil Knight, stirred a range of opinions — in- cluding strong feelings of nostalgia for many people.

Ashland resident Susan Conniff on Monday was visiting her alma mater for the first time in 15 years when she stopped by the stadium. She said her love of track and field was one of the reasons she traveled from the East Coast to take classes here in the 1970s, a journey that she said horrified her family.

“Oregon was a very wild and exotic place to go at the time,” she said.

Conniff was unaware of the planned rebuild, and a reporter showed her the artist’s rendering of the new sta- dium.

She said her immediate reaction was dismay.

“I had the old alumni reaction, ‘What? No,’” she said. “But, of course, there’s tons of new buildings, and after (seeing it), I think it’s really cool, especially for the future. It’s great. I’m excited about it.”

Student Michael Calhoun, who is studying for a bachelor’s degree in environmental studies, said the upcom- ing demolition has left him feeling powerless to counter a project he strongly objects to.

“I didn’t have a voice to change it, and it’s just watching it happen,” he said. “I think that’s an awful feeling TAFWA Newsletter - Page 11 - July 2018 when you see something happening and you can’t help it.”

Calhoun said he’s part of a group trying to save his high school’s former grandstand in his hometown of Ver- nonia, in northwest Oregon.

“This was pretty much set in stone,” he said of the Hayward rebuild. “Vernonia is still up in the air, so what I’ve tried to do is take what I learned from here and apply it to Vernonia. But in Vernonia we don’t have a billionaire running the town. Here they do.”

People who want to preserve the East Grandstand were upset about the start of the venue’s dismantlement. In a statement Monday, the group, East Grandstand Supporters, accused the university of breaking state law. A university spokesman responded that the group’s claim was “completely unfounded.”

State law requires the UO to consult with the Oregon State Historic Preservation Office to ensure that pub- licly owned buildings and other structures either listed on the National Registry of Historic Places or eligible for listing aren’t inadvertently damaged or destroyed.

The East Grandstand is not listed on the federal registry, and the Eugene City Council recently voted not to nominate the structure for listing as a city landmark.

The UO and the state office had been at odds over whether the grandstand is eligible for listing on the federal registry. The university maintained it was not because of major alterations to its key features. The state office disagreed.

The university has since relented and started negotiations with the state office to finalize an agreement that outlines the steps the UO will take to minimize the loss of the grandstand’s history. Ian Johnson, associate deputy state historic preservation officer, said the discussions are ongoing over a draft agreement.

The university has tentatively agreed to document the grandstand’s history, according to the draft agreement obtained Monday by The Register-Guard. The UO also had already planned to salvage the wooden benches embossed with seat numbers from the East Grandstand, 72 President’s Box cast-iron seats and Hayward Field history signs, among other items, to be stored in warehouses in Portland and Salem for the time being.

The salvaged items will be reinstalled in the new stadium or reused in the stadium’s commemorative gallery, to be located in the nine-story tower planned next to the stadium. The agreement notes some of the salvaged items may be used elsewhere on campus or in Eugene.

In its statement, East Grandstand Supporters said the steps outlined by the university were deemed “inad- equate” by the state office. As a result, the group claimed, the city’s demolition permit was invalidated because the university was not in compliance with state law. “The City permit office has been informed of our grave concern about the willful destruction of publicly owned historic property,” it said. ”...We will be speaking with lawyers at our earliest opportunity to decide upon further action.”

Johnson said his office was providing the university with guidance. “We didn’t tell them it was inadequate,” he said. “We said we wanted them to be more specific and consider the other recommendations of the public and then come back and chat with us.”

UO spokesman Tobin Klinger said that the university remains in compliance with state law and the city-is- sued demolition permit and that it has “diligently consulted” with the state office in ongoing discussions.

The state office “was informed of the planned salvage operations that commenced (Monday), and has been apprised of the extensive efforts undertaken to preserve and honor the history associated with Hayward Field,” he said.

TAFWA Newsletter - Page 12 - July 2018 The Chris Froome Ruling Just Broke Anti-Doping The UCI’s decision in the Brit’s case may have far-reaching implications for international drug testing By Joe Lindsey | Outside https://www.outsideonline.com/2324216/uci-just-broke-anti-doping Let’s be clear: most sports contend with doping is- that instance, the athlete must undergo what’s called sues. But it’s professional cycling that seems to have a “controlled pharmacokinetic” (PK) study to attempt made the biggest mess out of them. That’s (again) the to show that the elevated finding resulted from a legal situation for the sport with the news on Monday that dose. Essentially, it’s a single-subject excretion study Chris Froome is cleared in his doping case. where the athlete attempts to recreate the timing, total dosage, and number of doses from the day he Part of the problem with this decision is the tim- tested positive. He then hopes that the result corrobo- ing. After keeping the public in the dark for nine rates his initial test results. months, cycling’s international governing body, the UCI, announced five days before the start of the Tour But as WADA revealed in its press release affirming de France that it was dropping Froome’s doping case that it would not appeal the UCI’s decision, Froome over his “adverse analytical finding” for salbutamol never did the PK study because “it would not have at last September’s Vuelta España. That finding was been practicable as it would not have been possible kept secret until it leaked in December, and the case to adequately recreate the unique circumstances that dragged on long enough that it overshadowed the preceded the doping control.” Brit’s win in May’s Giro d’Italia. It threatened to do the same to the Tour and race organizers were prepared Instead, WADA and the UCI accepted other evi- to try to stop him from entering. (The UCI addressed dence Froome submitted that suggest his test result the timing of the announcement in a press release by was within the permitted maximum dose. Essentially, saying, “Whilst the UCI would have obviously pre- Froome was allowed to successfully argue that it was ferred the proceedings to have been finalised earlier in likely he didn’t exceed the legal dose, even though he the season, it had to ensure that Mr Froome had a fair couldn’t prove it. process, as it would have done with any other rider, and that the correct decision was issued....The UCI That is literally extraordinary. prepared and issued its formal reasoned decision as quickly as possible in the circumstances.”) The UCI did not detail (and apparently does not plan to detail) the evidence Froome submitted and But the timing isn’t my main problem with the what aspects were specific to his own physiology. ruling. Instead, it’s the substance of the decision, and (Reportedly, Froome submitted some 1,500 pages of the impact it may have on the Olympic sports world. evidence, among them a salbutamol review where the In short, it threatens the stability of the entire anti- subjects of one study were dogs.) It doesn’t mention doping system. why Froome’s circumstances were somehow markedly different than other athletes—like Diego Ulissi—who First, some background. Froome is an asthmatic, were required to do the PK test. And WADA’s press and uses a salbutamol inhaler, as do a number of other release makes no mention of changes to future salbu- cyclists. Under the World Anti-Doping Association tamol testing. (WADA) rules, the substance is legal for inhalation only (no pills allowed), but only up to a certain thresh- So Froome’s case appears to be a massive departure old, which is measured via metabolites in a urine test. from the process that every other salbutamol case Froome got into trouble at the Vuelta when an anti- in the last decade has gone through. And, based on doping test late in the race revealed he had twice the evidence that the authorities won’t disclose, it is also legal limit in his sample. From the beginning, Sky and apparently a unicorn: a one-off exception that doesn’t Froome always maintained his innocence, and the touch the foundations of the salbutamol test regime. team was quick to trumpet the UCI decision in a press release where Froome said, “I am very pleased that the WADA has not known what to do with salbutamol UCI has exonerated me.” since the organization was founded. The original WADA Prohibited List in 2004 banned salbutamol According to those same WADA rules, when a unless the athlete had a Therapeutic Use Exemption; sample exceeds the limit, it’s presumed that the ath- even then there was a threshold beyond which a TUE lete took more than the maximum allowed dose. In didn’t apply. In 2010, they scrapped the TUE require- TAFWA Newsletter - Page 13 - July 2018 ment but kept the threshold, essentially allowing any athlete to use salbutamol up to the that legal limit. Anti-doping authorities were never set up for expensive, protracted legal fights with deep-pocketed And while positive tests have been rare since 2010, athletes. WADA’s annual budget for 2018 increased the threshold has been challenged in academic re- 8 percent, to $32 million. That sounds like a lot, but search, which suggests that individuals can metabolize Froome alone makes a reported $5 million per year identical doses differently, and that criticized WADA from his Sky contract (not including endorsements). for failing to account for factors like dehydration. Into He’s one of just a handful of pro cyclists who make all this comes the Froome ruling. You can bet that the enough for a high-dollar defense, but WADA over- next athlete to fall foul of the salbutamol threshold sees all Olympic sports, including those with athletes is going to reference the Froome case in his or her whose earnings dwarf Froome’s. Imagine if an athlete defense, both to get out of the PK study requirement who makes tens of millions of dollars tests positive. and to attack the result itself as unreliable. They may even attempt to compel WADA to share the evidence At the same time, WADA’s research budget has Froome submitted. plummeted from almost $7 million a year in 2006 to $1.5 million in 2018. Those funds were gutted in part More troubling, the Froome case sets up a blueprint by expensive investigations like into state-sponsored for how to challenge any WADA test. Almost all of the Russian doping. But that research is also exactly the substances on the WADA Prohibited List are detected kind of thing they’ll need to defend—and improve— with tests that have some kind of subjective interpre- the testing standards. tation. EPO, for instance, is detected using gel elec- trophoresis, which separates synthetic and naturally The warning signs are already out there. Three years occurring EPO based on the size and charge of the me- ago, the UCI pursued a biopassport case against cyclist tabolized protein molecules. To be declared positive, Roman Kreuziger for nearly a year until dropping it a certain percentage of the resulting isoforms have literally on the eve of trial, citing “newly obtained to appear in a certain range, and that range is down, evidence” that was never detailed. The UCI hasn’t suc- somewhat, to interpretation. Biopassport testing is cessfully pursued a case since, although it just opened similarly down to expert interpretation of fluctuations one against road cyclist Jaime Roson. Track and field in blood and hormone chemistry—patterns that vary hasn’t seen a successful passport sanction since Sep- not just because of doping, but benign factors like tember 2016. plane travel, racing and illness. Maybe the UCI has compelling, specific scientific The Froome ruling now sets a precedent for future evidence that supports the idea that Froome’s case is doping cases. If the protocol around the salbutamol a one-off outlier and doesn’t affect the overall stability test is wrong, or meldonium, to name a recent high- of the salbutamol testing regime. If so, they should de- profile debacle, then it raises the question of whether tail it, and Froome should have no problem with that other tests may be similarly flawed. And tests may not since it will help to bat down accusations of preferen- necessarily be protected by the fact of their establish- tial treatment. ment. In 2015, Irish track and field sprinter Steven Colvert was banned two years for EPO use despite But if they don’t have that evidence and, instead, questions over whether his sample met the criteria what Froome showed is simply that the test doesn’t to be declared positive. A later report by Norwegian work as well as WADA contends, then that’s extremely researchers further questioned whether the tests were troubling. It’s not just about Froome, or salbutamol, reliable. Colvert didn’t pursue an appeal, at least in or cycling. The entire structure of anti-doping rests on part because it was too expensive. But had Colvert had the presumption that the tests work as the authorities resources, a successful appeal might have upended say they do, that the rules are the same for everyone, the EPO urine test, despite having been in use for 15 and that not only are cheating athletes caught, but years. more importantly that clean ones aren’t. If that’s not true? Ross Tucker, the author of the influential Science of Sport blog, tweeted: Then WADA’s entire reason for existence is in doubt. Many people saying it’s now open season on salbutamol, that the salbutamol policy is in tatters. The ramifications are bigger than that - I guarantee that a dog pharmacol- ogy study & 1500 page document positive tests is possible for every single banned drug. Testing is in tatters TAFWA Newsletter - Page 14 - July 2018 Tribute to Jon Hendershott Upper left: Dave Johnson. Middle left: the Hendershott Fam- ily with John Geer (far left). Middle right: R.J. Rudikoff. Lower left: Megan Rudikoff (Jon’s daughter) and Dave Johnson. Lower right upper: Megan Rudikoff and family. Lower lower right (l-r): Dave Johnson, Kevin Saylors, Bob Hersh. 2018 TAFWA and FAST Awards Breakfast Tribute to Jon Hendershott NCAA Championships, Eugene, Oregon June 8, 2018 Opposite page | Upper: Gerlinger Hall. Lower left: 2018 Cordner Nel- son Awardee Ed Fox, T&FN publisher emeritus. Current page | Upper left: Jack Pfeifer, TAFWA president. Upper right: April Thomas, Mississippi State throws coach. Middle left: Ed Fox. Middle right: 1-2 in the NCAA jav- elin for Miss State -- Anderson Peters (Grenada) and Nicolas Quijera (Spain). Lower right (l-r): Rich Perelman, Fred Baer, Bob Hersh.

Previous page | Upper left: Rich Perelman, winner of the 2018 Adam Jacobs Blogging Award. Upper right: Charlie Mahler. Lower: Shawn Price, Texas A&M Assistant Direc- tor, Media Relations (track and field, cross country), Sam Skinner Awardee for 2018.

Current page | Upper left (l-r): Curtis Anderson, Peter Thompson. Lower left: Cheryl Davis presents the Scott Davis Award for Announcing. Right: Mike Fanelli accepted the Bud Greenspan Film Award on behalf of the winning producers. Current page | Upper left (l-r): Brad Whisler and John Auka. Upper right: a friend of Jon’s. Lower left: Vin Lananna. Lower right: Don Steffens.

Next page | Upper left: Lloyd Stephens. Upper right: John Geer. Lower left: Fred Baer with friend of Jon’s. Middle right: Craig Virgin. Lower right: Steve Ritchie.

Previous page | Upper left (l-r): Bob Hersh, Cheryl Davis. Middle left: Vin Lananna, Ron Bellamy. Upper right: Bill Leung, Dr. James Tysell. Lower (l-r): Donna Worthington, Karl Uebel, John Auka, John Gillespie.

Current page | Upper right (l-r): Don Steffens, Alan Mazursky.Lower (l-r): Unidentified, Dan Lilot, Sieg Lind- strom, Don Chadez.

Next page | Upper left (l-r): John Auka, Don Steffens, Cheryl Davis. Upper right: Sieg Lindstrom. Middle right: friends of Jon. Middle left: Art Morgan. Lower right (l-r): Bob Burns, Maynard Orme, Donna Worthington. Lower left: Erroll Anderson, Shawn Price, Phil Pierce. Bottom right: Curtis Anderson, Bob Burns.

To watch the timelapse video go to: https://www. youtube.com/ watch?v=0-

Partial Fixtures List 2018 July 10-15 IAAF World U20 Championships, Tampere, Finland July 14-15 Athletics World Cup, London July 21-22 Anniversary Games, London July 27-28 Thorpe Cup, Knoxville, Tennessee August 7-12 European Championships, , Germany August 10-12 NACAC Senior Area Championships, Toronto, Canada August 30 Diamond League Final, Zurich August 31 Diamond Leauge Final, Sept. 8-9 IAAF Continental Cup, Ostrava, Czech Republic Sept. 9 New Balance 5th Avenue Mile TV: NBC & NBC Sports Gold 12-1 p.m. Oct. 6-18 Youth , Buenos Aires, Argentina Nov. 4 New York City Marathon Nov. 17 NCAA Division I Cross Country, Madison, Wisconsin NCAA Division II Cross Country, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania NCAA Division III Cross Country, Oshkosh, Wisconsin

2019 Feb. 2 USATF Cross Country Championships, Tallahassee, Florida March 8-9 NCAA Division I Indoor Championships, Birmingham, Alabama NCAA Division II Indoor Championships, Pittsburg, Kansas NCAA Division III Indoor Championships, Boston, Massachusetts March 27-30 Texas Relays, Austin, Texas March 30 IAAF World Cross Country Championships, Aarhus, Denmark April 15 Boston Marathon April 24-27 Drake Relays, Des Moines, Iowa April 25-27 Penn Relays, Philadelphia May 4-5 IAAF World Relays (TBD) May 23-25 NCAA Division I East Preliminary Rounds, Jacksonville, Florida NCAA Division I West Preliminary Rounds, Sacramento, California NCAA Division II Championships, Kingsville, Texas NCAA Division III Championships, Geneva, Ohio June 5-8 NCAA Division I Outdoor Championships, Austin, Texas June 29 Prefontaine Classic, Eugene, Oregon (Lane Community College) July 25-28 USATF Championships, Des Moines, Iowa Aug. 6-10 Pan-American Games, Lima, Peru (tentative dates for track and field) Sept. 28-Oct. 6 IAAF World Championships, Doha, Qatar Nov. 23 NCAA Division I Cross Country, Terre Haute, Indiana NCAA Division II Cross Country, Sacramento, California NCAA Division III Cross Country, Louisville, Kentucky

2020 June 10-13 NCAA Division I Outdoor Championships, Austin, Texas June 19-28 U.S. Olympic Team Trials - Track & Field (bidding reopens - Austin, Eugene, Sacramento) July 24 - Aug 9 Olympic Games, Tokyo,

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