Olympian Achievement
The top American track-and-field athletes competed this summer at Hayward Field—a venue one journalist called the sport’s Carnegie Hall. Only the best of the best—approximately 120 out of more than 1,200 elite athletes—earned the title of Olympian and a ticket to Beijing. Each of the eight days of competition drew more than 20,000 fans, for a total nearing 170,000 ticketed attendees. Adjacent to the stadium, the Eugene 08 Festival—free, open to the public, and more than a year in the planning—drew tens of thousands of additional fans and curious onlookers to eat, drink, watch the competition on huge video screens, enjoy entertainment, purchase mementos, play games, learn new skills, and much more. Oregon Quarterly assigned photojournalist John Bauguess to capture the scene.
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