The outdoor world track and field championships have come to America with officials hoping the event boosts the sport in the country its athletes dominate.
, typically cheer for great performances and by college or club affiliation. For the first time, an American track and field crowd will root for American athletes in the sport’s largest non-Olympic stage.The track and field world championships arrived on U.S. soil for the first time, bringing the planet’s fastest runners, strongest throwers and highest fliers together in a quaint college town in the Pacific Northwest that has become the spiritual home of the sport in America.
That it took the United States so long to host an event that has been contested since 1983 puzzled the rest of the world. Thomas Mardal, a Norwegian hammer thrower who attended the University of Florida, paused when asked about competing in the first world championships in the United States. “I honestly didn’t know that,” Mardal said. “I am surprised with how big sports is here. I guess track isn’t up there with American football and baseball and basketball and all that stuff.
“The challenge is to form that really clear connect with what they are doing — particularly those recreational runners — and believing they are part of that track and field landscape,” Coe said.The sport’s power brokers are hoping the next 10 days give them a nudge. They may face the vexing question of whether Eugene was the appropriate place within the United States.
“I feel like track and field, it is huge in America,” Coleman said. “You have a lot of kids that run track here and would love the opportunity to see us run in different places.”Coe euphemistically called these a “more intimate” world championships. For all its dazzling components, Hayward Field has a capacity of 30,000, the smallest in the event’s history. Eugene, by population the 154th largest city in America, is also the smallest host city, creating logistical questions.
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