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...Olympic Track and Field Trials have traditionally been the first step on the road to medaled glory. Newcomers became stars and stars household words during the quadrennial head-to-head competition to select the members of the American Olympic team. In the 1930s, Babe Didrikson and Jesse Owens came to national attention at the Trials, foreshadowing the performances that made the 1932 Los Angeles and 1936 Berlin Games memorable. Last time, a hurdler named Edwin Moses set an American record in the 400-meter hurdles. He went on to etch a world mark at Montreal in 1976 and has since...
...this, the year of the Olympic boycott, the U.S. Track and Field Trials were a fast race to nowhere. For American athletes, the road to Moscow was closed when Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan. Still the Trials went on last week in Eugene, Ore., a pleasant college town that calls itself the track and field capital of the nation. At stake was the somewhat empty designation "Olympian," a set of bright new red, white and blue U.S.A. uniforms for the top three finishers in each event, and an invitation to the White House July 30. Though the U.S. Olympic Committee went...
...Olympic letdown was obvious from the field of competitors who gathered in Eugene. Entry forms were mailed to 935 qualified athletes. Only 700 showed up to participate. The same number competed in '76, when only 800 athletes were invited. Said Meet Director Bob Newland: "There were 47 men sprinters who were eligible to compete, but only 27 showed up. In '76 we had more than 50. I'm certain that if we'd been going to the Olympics, everyone would have come to take a shot at making the team...
Still, some of those who went put on performances that will long be part of track and field lore. "You've got to remember, these are great athletes," Newland said. "They have their pride." That pride produced ten new Trials records during the first five days of competition, precisely the number of records set during the same period of the 1976 Trials. If no one was falling down to kiss the track after finishing third-as Mike Shine, the 400-meter hurdles silver medalist in 1976, had done when he qualified for the team that year-there were moments...
Noted for his work on the legal process, Sacks opened up the field of clinical education at the Law School by teaching skills that are important at the trial level, Young said...