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In 1999, the USATF established the Golden Spike Tour – later the Visa Championship Series (VCS) – to showcase track and field in America and to facilitate the broadcast of key events on national television networks. Using innovative meet formats, the VCS helps repackage the sport, draws new fans and new sponsors, and provides increased ...
Combined track and field events are competitions in which athletes participate in a number of track and field events, earning points for their performance in each event, which adds to a total points score. Outdoors, the most common combined events are the men's decathlon and the women's heptathlon.
[3] [4] The USATF Multi Event Championships (Heptathlon & Decathlon) occurred May 6–7, 2022 at the University of Arkansas’ John McDonnell Field in Fayetteville, Arkansas and 10,000 meter races were held at University of Oregon' Hayward Field in Eugene on May 27, 2022. [5]
Bridgeville, California (population 25) was the first town to be sold on eBay in 2002, and has been up for sale three times since. [1] In January 2003, Thatch Cay, the last privately held and undeveloped U.S. Virgin Island, was listed for auction by Idealight International. The minimum bid was US$3 million and the sale closed January 16, 2003. [2]
The AAU was the sole organizer of the event for the next ninety years. [1] In 1923, the AAU also sponsored the first American Track & Field championships for women . As a result of the Sports Act of 1978 , the AAU no longer had power over Olympic sports in the United States.
The USATF Masters Outdoor Championships is an annual track and field competition which serves as the national championship for the United States for athletes in masters age groups. Organized by USA Track & Field , the national governing body for the sport, the competition was first held in 1968. [ 1 ]
This was the first USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships organized by the newly named USA Track and Field (USATF). The competition acted as a way of selecting the United States team for the 1993 World Championships in Athletics in Stuttgart , Germany August 13–22 later that year.
The USATF Distance Classic is an annual track and field meeting in Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, California, hosted at the Occidental College track facility. Before 2015, it was called the USATF High Performance Distance Classic, and in 2015 and 2016 the meet was renamed to the HOKA ONE ONE Middle Distance Classic as per sponsorship from Hoka One One before going back to USATF Distance Classic in 2017.