T&F listed as "Athletics" on Olympic schedule

kartelite wrote:

Well, not really true as most of the rest of the world doesn't speak English (e.g. it's called 육상 "yook-sang" in Korean).

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바보다.

8/10 going high here nobody caught it

sock puppet wrote:

"The USATF was known for a number of years as The Athletics Congress after its spin off from the Amateur Athletic Union.

In 1992, The Athletics Congress changed its name to USA Track & Field to increase recognition for the organization and for the sport in the United States."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA_Track_%26_Field

That's worked out well.

LOL

paying for it wrote:

I'm not sure about the race walk course, but the marathon will not be ending in the stadium.

Racewalking will also end at the mall.

Athletics is the "European English" term for Track and Field.

For instance, in Sweden it is called "Friidrott" but when they speak English, they are going to say "Athletics" 9 times out of ten and sometimes Track and Field.

Yes, it's Athletics in NZ and Australia. Even the venue is known as an Athletics Track. The same in Sweden. While they recognise both translations, the only time I've ever seen Friidrott (which literally means General or Independant Sports)translated into Track and Field, has been when the English text is destined for an American audience. Otherwise it's Athletics.

All road events at the London Olympics will start and finish in the same exact location on the Mall - very close to wear the London Marathon finishes.

This also wrote:

football fan not wrote:

"The only thing more boring than track is field."

- Lee Corso

Couldn't use this quote if we called it athletics.

Guy is one to talk considering he's commentating on a game where they throw balls around to people for one minute and then take 10 minute breaks. Atleast in Track, it's interesting to watch the athletes and their strategies and they don't take breaks. And field can't be much worse than football.

Not real familiar with the sport of football, eh?

kartelite wrote:

CT Coach wrote:

Because that is what track and field is known as in the rest of the world.

Well, not really true as most of the rest of the world doesn't speak English (e.g. it's called 육상 "yook-sang" in Korean). I asked my Australian friend the other night about this, and he said he was more used to the term "track and field," though he had also heard the term "athletics."

Simply not true. Having coached in Australia for 7 years I rarely heard the term track and field. AA, NSWAAA, VAAA, Little A's etc is the accepted standard. Never heard the term "track meet" it was always an athletic carnival. And Yook-sang....really?