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Eighteen AAU records in swimming and three in track and field were established. Since its beginning in Washington, D.C., the AAU Junior Olympic Games have been conducted in 19 states and 30 cities across the United States. The state of Tennessee leads the way with six AAU Junior Olympic Games to its credit. "There's nothing junior about it" has ...
Athletics has been contested at every Summer Olympics since the birth of the modern Olympic movement at the 1896 Summer Olympics. The athletics program traces its earliest roots to events used in the ancient Greek Olympics. The modern program includes track and field events, road running events, and race walking events.
EUGENE, Ore. — Quincy Wilson, a 16-year-old from Bullis School outside Washington D.C., finished sixth with a time of 44.94 in Monday’s 400-meter final at the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials.
U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials from Eugene, Oregon: October 2 Exclusive Sports Illustrated still photographs of the Muhammad Ali-Ken Norton heavyweight fight and interviews with Ken Norton, Joe Frazier and George Foreman. October 30 Evel Knievel's final jump on Wide World of Sports is over seven Greyhound buses in the Kingdome in Seattle.
20,000 m walk (track) 1:23:37.21 Li Tianlei China 18 September 2012 Chinese University Games Tianjin, China 17 years, 249 days 20 km walk (road) 1:18:07 Li Gaobo China 23 April 2005 Cixi, China 15 years, 274 days 50,000 m walk (track) 4:22:13.4 Bengt Simonsen Sweden 19 October 1974 Gothenburg, Sweden 16 years, 210 days 50 km walk (road)
Here's what to know about the history of the Olympic trials in Eugene, Hayward Field and the best spots to watch events as action gets underway.
Wilson is already the youngest male ever to make the U.S. Olympic track & field team. He’s about a year younger than middle-distance runner Jim Ryun, who competed in 1964 at 17 years, 137 days old.
Kickboxing training in Ebisu, Tokyo.. The term "kickboxing" (キックボクシング, kikkubokushingu) can be used in a narrow and in a broad sense. The narrow use is restricted to the styles that self-identify as kickboxing, i.e., Japanese kickboxing (with its spin-off styles or rules such as shootboxing and K-1), Dutch kickboxing, and American kickboxing.