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Lead Stories: Friday, January 9, 2009

Universal Sports to Broadcast U.S. Olympic Track Trials, Present Encore Presentations

Posted June 28th, 2008 at 8:00 AM by Adam Jacobs

Section: News & Results, Track & Field, Olympics

Coverage of the U.S. Olympic Trials, the pressure-packed competition held every four years to select the U.S. Olympic Team, continue on the networks of NBC Universal with nearly 20 hours of swimming and track & field trials over the next two weeks including 10 straight nights of live primetime coverage on NBC and USA. Additionally Universal Sports will present encore presentations of the trials.

Tyson Gay, Allyson Felix, Jeremy Wariner, Bernard Lagat, Reese Hoffa, Sanya Richards and Lauryn Williams are among the top competitors at the historic Hayward Field at the University of Oregon looking to earn a trip to Beijing to represent the U.S. at the Olympic Games. Tom Hammond, Carol Lewis, Lewis Johnson, Ato Boldon, Dwight Stones, Ed Eyestone and Bob Neumeier report from Eugene, Ore.

Fri., June 27
Midnight-1a.m.ET/PT (USA)
Featured events:
Women’s 10,000m Final
Women’s 100m Quarterfinal
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Note on the News: Watch “USA vs. the World” on the Web

Posted January 21st, 2008 at 4:39 PM by David Monti

Section: News & Results, Track & Field

Today’s USA vs. The World - Run For The Dream meeting, the first event of the 2008 USATF Visa Indoor Championship Series, will be broadcast on the web today at the following link:

http://usatf.sportnet.com/

The invitational tier of the meet, which will be held at the Save Mart Center at Fresno State University, will begin at 10:00 p.m. EST (7:00 p.m. PST) and will feature the following events:
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