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Sacto ? Stanford ? Eugene ? Austin ? Mt Sac ? where else ? |
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U of Hawaii |
| Hot but Cool |
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I'd choose U Penn. |
| Science! |
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NYC, Boston, Atlanta, Raleigh |
| Science! |
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NYC, Boston, Atlanta, Raleigh |
| Blowing.Rock Master |
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2013 is already scheduled for Des Moines. |
| USATF visionary |
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Iten Kenya. Since they're having trials at Eugene, it is only fair that we then have trials there. It will be amazing. |
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Please go away. You're terrible. |
| Blowing.Rock Master |
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While I'd love for them to be in Atlanta or Raleigh, the weather in late June would be horrendous. Very hot, humid, and thunderstorms almost every afternoon. Plus Atlanta doesn't have a track facility that could host it. |
| Charles Nonhomogenous |
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Please go back to Indianapolis. Centrally located, easy to drive to, cheap airfares, tons of hotel rooms at all price levels, nice facility. |
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Amen! |
| Night Runner |
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Wasn't that track taken out. I liked having the Meet in Indy. It was always greeat as CN said. |
| sickman |
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That's easy. Keeseville, NY. |
| Kanye North |
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This. |
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Max Siegel will bring the 2012 Olympic Trials in Indianapolis. |
| On the Fast Track |
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I'd like to see them either at Penn or at Fayetteville. |
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Penn is o.k. but towns w/o a major airport serviced by large airliners are a bitch since most coaches and athletes pay their own way. Small towns are fine for NCAA Champs given the school pays for coaches and athleles. |
| Real Track Poster |
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You are kidding about Sacramento, I hope? Didn't they go broke after trying to host some masters meet last year. They don't have an adequate facility for a major event, so why even consider that location? Stanford has seating for only about 4,000. That is not anywhere up to requirements for the Trials. Austin might work ok. Mt. Sac doesn't seem to draw paying customers anymore, and they don't have the organization ofr a major track and field event at the level of Olympic Trials. How about Baton Rouge, or Penn or Fayetteville? Those aren't perfect, and they don't match up to Eugene, but if they can come up with the financing and the organization, it would be good for the sport if the event should go somewhere else for a change. |
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The past OTs at Sacramento made money had a larger audience than any other OTs. Stanford easily adds seats which extends the capacity to 20,000. Other football venues can easily raise the field and put in a temp track in a few days, then revert back to football. The problem at America's six traditional, historic T&F Centers/Relays (U Penn, Mt Sac CC, Drake U, U Kansas, U Texas at Austin, and Stanford U) are that the volunteers are literally swamped to death non-stop with work all year around. The local population of athletes and coaches in these places that they deal with is mind boggling. These six centers gladly handle year around, cross country, youth, age group, high, school, masters, college, elite, track & field meets, road races, and marathons. Their blessings have produced 100% of the USA T&F medals and scores of medals by other nations and is why the USA is the #1 T&F team in the world. Keep in mind the relays themselves take a full year to plan and require a full-time year-around office staff. Thus smaller, less populated areas of the U.S (with the right logistics, airport, hotel, and tourist facilities) should help by pitching in and hosting USA Champs and USOC Team Trials. |
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Mt. SAC or the Home Depot Center. Either of those would be magnificent choices. |