It's a shame so many "track fans" on here seem to take joy in hoping the Prefontaine Classic is a bust. Yes Eugene is a pain in the ass to get to with overpriced, average hotels. The Pre meet is there every year. Go or don't. I think the bigger issue that is bleeding into this thread is that Nationals/OTs are held in Eugene nearly every year. It's far too often especially with the cost and difficulty of getting there. That's the real issue and USATF needs to move Nationals around. As for Eugene, they can't do much about flight costs, but they can try to address the ticket costs and work with the local hotels about the price gouging. If they continue to overcharge, eventually not enough people will show up for the hotels to make the money. Hopefully they don't screw themselves and everyone else going for the quick buck like they have been since the rebuilt Hayward Field opened up.
Nike has self generated many of the haters through bad acting of a big corporation, who subs out most of its work to China, dodgy labor practice's, woke policy, having guys like Salazar and other arrogants lead the charge...
Track in Eugene was an organic phenomena of passion back in the day, with minimal budgets and an old historic stadium that would rock.
Now it's "state of the art" synthetic, and run by big corp. who don't have destroyed the organic from the heart nature of the Eugene phenomena.
You need to bring back the passion, something which the accountants in charge have no clue what so ever.
It's a shame so many "track fans" on here seem to take joy in hoping the Prefontaine Classic is a bust. Yes Eugene is a pain in the ass to get to with overpriced, average hotels. The Pre meet is there every year. Go or don't. I think the bigger issue that is bleeding into this thread is that Nationals/OTs are held in Eugene nearly every year. It's far too often especially with the cost and difficulty of getting there. That's the real issue and USATF needs to move Nationals around. As for Eugene, they can't do much about flight costs, but they can try to address the ticket costs and work with the local hotels about the price gouging. If they continue to overcharge, eventually not enough people will show up for the hotels to make the money. Hopefully they don't screw themselves and everyone else going for the quick buck like they have been since the rebuilt Hayward Field opened up.
Who else is bidding to host the US Championships these days? This century, I think that there have been six cities that have hosted:
Eugene (10) Palo Alto (2) Indianapolis (2) Sacramento (3) Des Moines (4) Carson (1)
be kind to nice people who work for nothing. preclassic is produced by high school level unpaid volunteers. TV, rake crews, announcers, etc. work for the love of the sport not money.
Nobody really cares about that Prefontaine guy. At least whoever still does is too elderly to sustain interest in a big world class meet in his honor. Face it, the guy won absolutely nothing of note on the world stage.
you forgot to mention he was a drunken bum
But someone still got triggered enough to cast a bunch of fake votes.
Expecting the elite track world to care about Prefontaine is fantasy. He was a local star. His meet started out as an ordinary national-level invitational, but got bloated up by Nike for its weird PR machine. World elites are now forced to go there and pay homage.
The way the announcers (louspeakers, not broadcasters) started making event winners brown nose the crowd was nauseating. Do they still do that? "What a great crowd, isn't it, don't you love these knowledgeable fans" etc etc. They can't even handle metric field event results.
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