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World Juniors in Eugene Big Win for IAAF, Lananna, by David Monti, RRW, used with permission

Larry Ederby Larry Eder
July 22, 2014
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Lamine Diack, IAAF, photo by David Monti, RRW

The World Junior Championships coming to Eugene has been a huge coup for Tracktown USA. Vin Lananna, the man with the vision thing on this event, is getting the credit that he deserves. The World Indoors will be in Portland in 2016, added to the portfolio of events that Lananna has brought to Oregon. 

Vin Lananna, remember, as coach at Stanford, brought US Championships to that famed campus and put the Payton Jordan Invitational on international footing. The big dream is still ahead: can the US host a World Outdoor Athletics Championships? 

This piece, by David Monti, of Race Results Weekly, puts the World Juniors hosting in the light it deserves: a huge coup for the US, and a huge feather in the hat of one Vin Lananna and his team. 


WORLD JUNIORS IN EUGENE BIG WIN FOR IAAF, LANANNA
By David Monti, @d9monti
(c) 2014 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved, used with permission

EUGENE, OREGON (22-Jul) — The last time an IAAF World Championships was held in the United States, Boyz II Men and Sir Mix-a-Lot topped the Billboard charts, Shaquille O’Neal was the NBA rookie of the year, and “Home Alone 2” had just been released in theaters.

Those championships, the IAAF World Cross Country Championships, were held in Boston’s Franklin Park, where American distance running legend Lynn Jennings had won her third consecutive title.

Since then, IAAF executives have lamented that no global championships –with the exception of the 1996 Olympics, which is not an IAAF meet– have been held in the country which produces the most world championships medalists.  That all changed when a bid for the 2014 IAAF World Junior Championships presented by TrackTown USA was accepted by the IAAF.  Those championships,  open here today at historic Hayward Field at the University of Oregon, America’s #1 track temple.

“I was not sure if during my tenure if I would see a championships in the United States,” IAAF president Lamine Diack told reporters here yesterday.  The 81 year-old athletics executive from Senegal is serving in his final term as head of the IAAF.

The man responsible for bringing these championships to Oregon is former University of Oregon assistant athletic director and athletics coach, Vin Lananna, who heads-up the local organizing committee through his TrackTown USA organization.  Lananna told reporters yesterday that hosting the World Junior Championships “made the most sense” based on the size of Hayward Field and the university setting in this city of about 156,000 people.

“Thanks for your leadership in bringing these championships to Oregon,” Lananna told Diack at a press conference here yesterday.  He continued: “(We have) the most passionate and knowledgeable fans in America.”

Lananna’s street cred was a big factor in Eugene’s winning bid.  Diack knew Lananna as an excellent university coach at both Stanford and Oregon and one of the biggest boosters of the sport in the United States.  He also knew of the repeated successes of the Prefontaine Classic Diamond League meeting, and USA, NCAA and Olympic Trials meets which have also been held at Hayward.  When Lananna spoke of Eugene’s interest, Diack listened.

“Vin is a man from track and field,” Diack said.  He added, “We were very open to a bid.  We knew the man.”

These championships, which feature 970 young men and 710 young women from over 200 countries, will be “a stepping stone for younger athletes,” Diack asserted.  He also said that he expected the level of the organization for these championships to be top notch.

“We promised them we would deliver a heck of a championships,” Lananna said adding, “That’s a lot of pressure, President Diack.”


PHOTO: Lamine Diack speaks with reporters at the opening press conference of the 2014 IAAF World Junior Championships in Eugene, Oregon (photo by David Monti for Race Results Weekly).

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    Larry Eder has had a 52-year involvement in the sport of athletics. Larry has experienced the sport as an athlete, coach, magazine publisher, and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America's first sub-4 minute miler, was published in RW in 1983. Larry has published several magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. version of Spikes magazine. He currently manages the content and marketing development of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his daily pilgrimage with the sport, Larry says: "I have to admit, I love traveling to far away meets, writing about the sport I love, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, the most of anything I have ever done, except, maybe running itself." Also does some updates for BBC Sports at key events, which he truly enjoys. Theme song: Greg Allman, " I'm no Angel."

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