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Updates: Prefontaine Classic Re-Scheduled For Oct. 4

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DyeStat.com   May 3rd 2020, 12:35pm
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New Dates Have Been Set For U.S. Olympic Team Trials In '21

By Doug Binder, DyeStat Editor

Updates that pertain to track and field and the sports world.

Tuesday, May 26

The United States passes a grim milestone with 100,000 deaths connected to the COVID-19 virus. 

Saturday, May 23

In the first officially timed live track race in the U.S. in more than two months, Leo Dashbach of Highland High in Arizona became the 11th prep runner to run a sub-four mile, clocking 3:59.54 at Oak Ridge High in El Dorado Hills, Calif. RECAP

Tuesday, May 19 

Notre Dame University announced that it would return to in-person classes on Aug. 10 and end the semester by Thanksgiving, according to the New York Times. Notre Dame is one of the first major universities to announce that it will reopen and function normally in the fall. 

Wednesday, May 13

California State University's campuses will be closed for in-person instruction and be online in the fall, meaning that all sports on those 23 campuses will not happen, either.

Tuesday, May 12

The Wanda Diamond League announced new provisional dates for 2020 that include the Prefontaine Classic on Sunday, Oct. 4 in Eugene, Oregon. That would come one day following the University of Oregon's home football game against rival Washington (if football season happens according to schedule). The University of Oregon is not yet ready to commit to allowing the Prefontaine Classic to use Hayward Field.

Monday, May 11

Major League Baseball has announced plans to re-start its season, possibly on July 4.

Sunday, May 3

In the first attempt at live track and field competition in nearly two months, Mondo Duplantis, Renaud Lavillenie and Sam Kendricks entertained a live-streaming audience from their own backyards in the Ultimate Garden Clash. Duplantis and Lavillenie recorded 36 5-meter clearances during two 15-minute 'halves' in a contest declared a draw. RECAP

Friday, May 1

The NCAA released a set of guidelines that it will follow for bringing sports programs back, titled Core Principles of Resocialization of Collegiate Sport.

The report states: "Collegiate sports differ from professional sports because all collegiate athletes are first and foremost students. Thus, resocialization of collegiate sport must be grounded in resocialization of college campuses. As with society at large, such resocialization must be measured, nimble and based on sound science."

- The AJC Peachtree Road Race has been moved from the Fourth of July to Thanksgiving. The 51st running will take place on Nov. 26. RRW STORY

“As Atlanta and the nation continue to take precautions to slow and stop the spread of COVID-19, we understand that Peachtree participants, volunteers, medical staff and the other first responders who keep them safe need more time to prepare for this year’s race,” said Rich Kenah, race director of the Peachtree and Atlanta Track Club’s executive director. “We are thankful for the opportunity to move forward together with all of Atlanta on Thanksgiving Day in a responsible and safe format.” 

The world's three greatest pole vaulters will go head to head, virtually, from their back yards on Sunday.

Thursday, April 30 

In one of the most promising news developments in two months, scientists at Oxford University in England say that a coronavirus vaccine could be ready by September. That would be a potential game-changer in the effort to bring all aspects of the world -- including sports -- back online and return to normal. 

Wednesday, April 29

Boston's adidas Boost Games will not happen this year. New dates have been set for 2021.

Tuesday, April 28

Portland Track announced Tuesday that will not be holding any of its events in June, saying "conditions aren't safe yet." 

Friday, April 24

While Franlin Field in Philadelphia sat idle, more than 10,000 users on Twitch participated in the first virtual edition of the Penn Relays.

Thursday, April 23

The Wanda Diamond League meets in Eugene, Ore. (The Prefontaine Classic, June 7) and Paris (June 13) have been postponed. However, a new event called The Impossible Games, featuring exhibitions that would include a 300-meter hurdles world record attempt by Karsten Warholm, is being organized to take place on June 11.

The European Athletics Championships, also in Paris Aug. 25-30, have also been canceled

Tuesday, April 21

New dates have been set for the 2020 Olympic Trials in Eugene, Ore -- June 18-27 

Monday, April 20 

Popular track and field hangout, restraurant and bar, Coogan's, announced that it is shutting its doors for good, according to Walt Murphy. The restaurant is a half block from The Armory, at the corner of 169th at Broadway in New York City. It's been closed since March 17 due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Florida became the 26th state to officially announce that there will be no more springs sports contested by state's schools.

Friday, April 17

New dates have been set, tentatively, for New Balance Nationals Outdoor - July 16-19.

The Brooklyn Half Marathon, the largest event of its kind in the U.S., has been officially canceled. It was set for May 16. 

Thurday, April 16

The 45th Great Southwest Classic, slated for June 4-6 at the University of New Mexico has been canceled, according to meet director Fred Polich.

Wedneday, April 15

Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti predicted that sports in his city are unlikely to return until 2021. 

Tuesday, April 14

Dr. Anthony Fauci, who has become well-known these past weeks as the nation's leading expert on infectious diseases, said the return of sports this summer is possible, but only if there are no fans in attendance.

Wednesday, April 8 

New dates have been announced for the World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Ore. The meet will be pushed ahead to 2022 and will be conducted July 15-24 in the new Hayward Field. RELEASE

Tuesday, April 7 

World Athletics suspended the qualification period for the 2021 Olympic Games to December 1. The reasoning behind it is to allow athletes some time for social distancing during the pandemic and some added time to plan for upcoming meets that have yet to materialize on the calendar. RRW

Friday, April 3

The University of Kentucky's multi-purpose Nutter Fieldhouse is being looked at as a potential field hospital with capacity for 400 additional beds if the coronavirus outbreak in Kentucky overhwlems existing healthcare facilities. 

 

Thursday, April 2

Georgia and Indiana are the latest states to shut down high school springs sports for good this year. Here's where all 50 states currently stand. LIST

Tuesday, March 31

The Detroit Free-Press today reported that the indoor track at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor could soon be converted into space for additional hospital beds as the need grows with the COVID-19 epidemic. The university is also considering re-purposing campus dormitories as well.

Monday, March 30

The NCAA is allowing some scholarship relief and extended eligibility for athletes who have lost their spring seasons. STORY

Arizona became the latest state to officially shut down all spring sports, including the end-of-season championships, joining Alaska, Alabama, Kansas and New Mexico. Here is where all 50 states stand as of today.

California's 10 section commissioners and the CIF excecutive director are scheduled to meet on April 3 to make a determination about the next steps in that state.

- Additional USATF events, spanning May to August, have been canceled.

- The IOC and the Tokyo LOC have jointly released new dates for the XXXII Olympic Games and Paralympics. The Olympics are now set for July 23 to August 8. The Paralympics would go from Aug. 24 to  Sept. 5.

Friday, March 27

Three more Wanda Diamond League meets were officially wiped off the calendar today that had been scheduled for May. Stockholm (May 24), Rome (May 28) and Rabat (May 31) have all been canceled amid the rising severity of the coronavirus pandemic. 

The next meet on the list is the Prefontaine Classic in Eugene, Ore., which has not been officially called. However, the meet is not selling any tickets at this time.

Tuesday, March 24

Well, that's a wrap for 2020 being an Olympic year with Games this summer in Tokyo. In a joint statement from the International Olympic Committee and Tokyo Organizing Committee, the decision was reached to push the Olympics to 2021. The exact dates have not yet been set.

In Eugene, that means that the 2020 Olympic Trials will need to be rescheduled. And that would also likely mean the World Championships would move to 2022, although there is no official word on that yet.

That also got some people wondering if the U.S. Marathon Trials, contested just three weeks ago, should be re-run ahead of the postponed Olympics. 

Des Linden, who did not make the team this year, spoke out against that idea quickly.

Monday, March 23 

(afternoon)

Dick Pound of the IOC says the Olympic Games will be postponed. He told Christine Brennan of USA Today: “On the basis of the information the IOC has, postponement has been decided,” Pound said in a phone interview. “The parameters going forward have not been determined, but the Games are not going to start on July 24, that much I know.”

The reaction to the announcement will take some time to settle in, especially since it is not yet known how long the postponement will last. It could be a year. Maybe two?

(morning)

- Perhaps in similar fashion to the forced cancellation of the NCAA D1 Indoor Championships and Men's and Women's Basketball Tournaments, the Olympics could be nearing a postponement due to individual countries pulling out. 

On Sunday evening, the Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) and Canadian Paralympic Committee (CPC) declared they would not send athletes to the 2020 Olympic Games as they are currently planned, for Tokyo this July. Other countries appear ready to follow suit today.

It is reminiscent of the universities of Kansas and Duke pulling back from the winter sports championships that eventually forced the NCAAs hand on March Madness.

World Athletics, the global track and field body, says its ready to join discussions with the IOC about the ongoing evaluation of what to do with the Olympic Games. 

Saturday, March 21

The USATF has requested that the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo be postponed until the health and safety of the participants can be assured.

Pole vaulter Sandi Morris gave an interview to Newsfeed Now and discussed her feelings about whether or not the Olympics should proceed as scheduled. 

 

Friday, March 20 

Kara Goucher was surprised at home with a silver medal from the 2007 World Championships, an upgrade from the bronze in the 10,000 meters in Osaka, Japan.

- The prospect of an Olympic Games this year seems to be getting dimmer as the intensity of the outbreak increases around the world. Training facilities are closing. The drug testing is becoming more selective. And of course the travel restrictions are currently extensive. 

Michael Johnson called on the IOC to be transparent with their decision-making process so that athletes can plan accordingly. 

Meanwhile, the IOC announced that the Olympic flame has arrived in Japan and is due for a 121-day relay. The immediate reaction received push-back from commenters, who are part of a growing chorus that wants the Games shut down. 

Houston coach Leroy Burell sums up the feelings of many people across collegiate track and field -- and the sport -- today:

Thursday, March 19 

Christian Taylor discussed the adjustments to training caused by the closure of public and university tracks the past week in this story by World Athletics.

Wednesday, March 18

Mt. SAC Relays updates statement; there will be no events on previously schedule date.

The NCAA is unlikely to grant additional eligibility to athletes who were unable to compete their winter seasons due to coronavirus outbreak cancellations. 

The Drake Relays, presented by Xtream and powered by Mediacom, have been postponed. | FAQs 

From World Athletics, athletes adapting to new circumstances and uncertain futures.

Tuesday, March 17 

The Harry Jerome Track Classic is canceled.

The first three meets (at a minimum) of the Diamond League are postponed.

Portland Track says it stands ready to organize a meet a moment's notice, if need be, whenever the all clear is issued in order to assist athletes looking for high quality races.

Monday, March 16

The Arcadia Invitational, set for April 10-11, has officially been canceled.

The Penn Relays, after 125 consecutive years, has been canceled.

Friday, March 13

(4:30 p.m.)

The Chandler Rotary Meet in Arizona will be postponed from its original date of March 20-21. Meet director Dave Shapiro plans to move the meet to either April 16-17 or April 23-24. 

The NCAA has moved toward restoring an extra year of eligibility to athletes affected by the cancellation of spring sports in 2020. Details will come later.

The Illinois Top Times meet is canceled.

The Carlsbad 5000 was rescheduled.

The London Marathon is postponed until Oct. 4.

Florida schools, as in several other states, have been closed for two weeks. 

(8:30 a.m.)

Waking up to a world without sports in the U.S., or so it feels. The Masters is canceled. The Boston Marathon is pushed to September 14. The Mt. SAC Relays is canceled. The Prefontaine Classic has stopped selling tickets. 

The question this morning is: Who is still holding a track meet any time soon? 

The Chandler Rotary Meet in Arizona, as of last night, appears to still be happening. It's a week a way and has already announced the step of eliminating spectators for the meet, which will be live webcast on RunnerSpace if it actually comes off. 

Thursday, March 12

(5:30 p.m. PDT)

The Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays, originally set for March 25-28, are canceled.

Penn Relays, set for April 23-25, has not been officially shut down. Meet director Dave Johnson told the Philadelphia Tribune "we are proceeding as if it will happen," but also "everything is possible," including an inevitable cancellation. The Penn Relays operates independently of the Ivy League, so Penn's exclusion from the meet is not a deal-breaker. If there were still enough schools able to come, and health officials permitted it, Penn Relays could be held as a large high school meet, in theory.

 

(1:20 p.m. PDT)

(11:25 a.m. PDT)

The Boston Marathon has been postponed, possibly moving to Sept. 5.

(11:15 a.m. PDT)

NCAA member schools have begun suspending athletic acitivies, including Duke, Arizona State and Kansas, effective immediately. The Indoor meet is hanging by a thread, and maybe not even that much. 

The NHL has suspended its season. 

Major League Baseball has shut down. 

The NAIA announced it has canceled its remaining winter championships. 

The Stanford Invitational, April 3-4, is canceled.

Pre Classic meet director Tom Jordan is evaluating the situation with medical experts. 

(10 a.m. PDT)

Cancellations are shutting down events all over the country and around the world. 

The high school meets recently announcing that they will not take place -- The Texas Distance Carnival, the Redondo Invitational (California), the Maurice Greene Invitational (California), and AAU Indoor Nationals (Maryland).

St. Patrick's Day festivities are being shut down all over as well. 

In Portland, Ore. the Shamrock Run events have been canceled due to the governor's edict that there be no crowds of more than 250 people for the next four weeks. 

(9:00 a.m. PDT)

The NCAA has decided that no spectators, including family, will be permitted to attend the NCAA Division 1 Indoor Championships in Albuquerque, N.M. It is an effort to limit the number of people in the venue to 1/3 of capacity based on the number of coaches, participants and officials. 

The Big Ten, SEC and AAC conference have all shut down their basketball tournaments effective immediately. The ACC, Big-12, Atlantic-10 and Pac-12 soon after followed suit.

(8:30 a.m. PDT)

Major League Soccer has suspended its season.

Donovan Mitchell of the Utah Jazz has tested positive for the virus. 

Today's Kincaid Relays, a high school meet in Texas, has been canceled, as well as the Rosemead Invitational in California.

(7:30 a.m. PDT)

A second college conference, the Patriot League, has terminated its spring sports due to the outbreak, following the lead of the Ivy League, which announced yesterday. That's two service academies - Army and Navy - plus Colgate, Lafayette, Holy Cross, Boston University, Lehigh, Bucknell, Loyola and American. This is according to the Stride Report.

If more conferences follow, what happens to the lost season? Will athletes have it restored to their remaining eligibility? Stay tuned. 

- Boston Marathon officials are not yet ready to cancel the event, but they are consulting medical experts before making a decision.

The Doris Heritage Track Festival in Seattle, slated for March 21, has been canceled. 

 

March 11

(9:03 pm. PDT)

- New Balance Nationals Indoor has been officially called off. STATEMENT

The National Scholastic Athletics Foundation (NSAF) and its medical staff, led by Dr. Robert Jones and in direct discussion with the Center for Disease Control (CDC), have made the decision Wednesday night to cancel the 2020 New Balance Nationals Indoor (NBNI), which was to take place at The Armory this weekend, March 13-15.

“Due to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak and out of concern for the safety of all athletes, coaches and families, we’ve decided it’s in the best interest of all parties to cancel the meet,” said NSAF and NBNI Meet Director Jim Spier. “It’s the hardest decision we’ve ever had to make.”

The Hall of Fame function on Thursday night at the New York AC is still on. 

(7 p.m. PDT):

- NBA season has been suspended until further notice, after Rudy Gobert of the Utah Jazz tested positive for the COVID-19 virus.

- Tokyo Olympic organizing committee nearing a decision to postpone the Games.

(4 p.m. PDT):

Here is where things stand today. 

- New Balance Nationals Indoor remains on schedule in New York. It will be VIEWABLE HERE.

- Thursday's NSAF High School Track and Field Hall of Fame induction is also still on and RunnerSpace will have video after it's over.

- The NCAA Indoor Championships will be held without spectators, according to a statement released by President Mark Emmert

- Harvard president Lawrence Bascow has forbidden student-athletes Anna Juul, Abbe Goldstein and Kieran Tunitvate from attending the NCAA Division 1 Indoor Championships this weekend in Albuquerque, N.M. Apparently, they were 10 minutes away from going to the airport when the decision was handed down.

- Additionally, the Ivy League has canceled all spring sports, which brings with it tremendous pain for all of those who are connected to track and field programs at those schools. It also brings into question whether Penn Relays, located on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania, will be allowed to proceed. A statement on that could be coming in the next 24 hours. 

- Jamaican officials canceled The Champs, which is the outrageously high-quality high school meet that crowns champions and sets the table for the schools who ordinarily make the journey north to Philadelphia for Penn.

- The USATF today canceled the Hershey Youth National Indoor Championships, originally scheduled for March 20-22 at Ocean Breeze.



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