TORONTO MEET TO BE STREAMED ON ESPN360.COM

By David Monti
(c) 2009 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved

Thursday's Festival of Excellence athletics meeting in Toronto will be streamed live at ESPN360.com, the Bristol, Conn., broadcaster announced today.  Track's biggest superstar, Usain Bolt, will be competing in the 100m.

The broadcast is free, but there's a catch: ESPN360.com content is only available when viewing the website thorough certain internet providers.  ESPN says that the service is available in 25 million homes via 45 internet service providers, which include AT&T, Verizon, RCN, Insight, Frontier, Cavalier, Charter, Mediacom, Conway, and Grande Communications.   ESPN360.com is also available at no cost to approximately 18 million U.S. college students and U.S.-based military personnel via computers connected to on-campus educational networks and on-base military networks (those with “.edu” and “.mil” domains).

If you have the right access, you can watch the meet beginning at 7:00 p.m. EDT on Thursday, June 11.  Men's events include 5000m, 400m, mile, 800m, and 100m.  Women's events include 400m, mile and 100m hurdles.