Spokane Selected to Host 2022 USA Track & Field Indoor Championships 02/14/21
Spokane’s new sports facility, The Podium has been selected as the site for the 2022 USATF Indoor Championships set to be held February 25–26, 2022. With the completion of The Podium on track for Fall 2021, we are pleased to welcome USATF athletes, officials, coaches, event administrators, and spectators to Spokane.
The Indoor Track & Field Championships are expected to bring more than $2 million in visitor spending including 2,000 overnight hotel stays. Spokane will also gain immeasurable exposure when the event is broadcast live nationally.
“We can’t think of a better way to showcase The Podium than with this flagship event for 2022,” says Eric Sawyer, Spokane Sports President and CEO. I’m so proud of how the Spokane Sports team worked with USATF to bring this prestigious event to Spokane at a time when our community can really use a boost.”
Sydney McLaughlin, Noah Lyles and Trayvon Bromell all commit to 2021 New Balance Indoor Grand Prix
Sydney McLaughlin,
New Balance Indoor Grand Prix, organizers announced today.
Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, no spectators will be allowed to attend the 2021
New Balance Indoor Grand Prix. More information can be found at www.nbindoorgrandprix.com.
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New Balance Indoor Grand Prix for a third time,
Sydney McLaughlin is the 2019 World Athletics Championships silver medalist in the 400m hurdles, and the second-fastest woman in the history of the event. McLaughlin is also the 2019 Diamond League Champion in the 400m hurdles and is the world under-20 record holder in the event. McLaughlin will compete in both the 60m hurdles and 500m at this year’s
More Tokyo Olympics worries as city governor warns new Covid-19 cases in the city could explode
Sebastian Coe recently said there is a cast-iron will the Games would go ahead but organisers are facing a few anxious weeks
31 December 2020 • 3:39pm
Olympic Rings outside The Olympic Stadium in Tokyo,
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With just over 200 days to go until the rescheduled Games, Olympics organisers are facing anxious weeks ahead after the governor of Tokyo warned Covid-19 cases in the city could explode due to the new variant.
Infections in the city hit more than 1,000 cases for the first time on Thursday and the new strain causing devastation in Britain has now been detected elsewhere in Japan.
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Under the theme: “Track is Back,” the Bahamas Association of Athletic Associations hosted its first track and field meet since the coronavirus pandemic broke out in March.
The BAAA, in closing out what has been a dramatic year of postponements and cancellations of various local and international sporting events, staged the Odd Distance Track and Field Meet at the Thomas A Robinson National Stadium on Saturday.
“We’ve been planning for the COVID-19 environment since the lockdown and we recognised very early that certain things had to be in place,” said BAAA president Drumeco Archer. “We’ve been in communication with the Competent Authority, giving them the assurance that we could do this and we could do this well.”