I am not normal a big fan of Steve Duin, a columnist for the Portland Oregonian newspaper; but, today he has a good column on how Eugene Oregon was award the 2008 US Olympic track trials to be held on the University of Oregon campus at venerable Hayward Field. The column titled "A victory for story telling in Eugene" states in part; "That was the moment the story came together. That's the fork in the road Eugene will remember, ages and ages hence, when someone asks when the great revival took hold." Eugene Oregon , Track Town USA. Go Ducks (For the full column click on the title above for a link)
Update: The Eugene Resister Guard also has a story on how Eugene obtained the Olympic Trials and states they presented a video to the committee. The video begins with this narration over images of Hayward Field: ``There are places whose stature exceeds their actual size. ... Can a building have a memory? Can a structure have a soul? Why do some places bring us back and back, drawn by the echoes that have gone before?''
At the end, the narrator intones, ``The Trials are for the athletes - let's bring them home: Eugene 2008.''
