\nI think that any other city would have a tough time topping the job that Eugene did in hosting the 2012 trials. Despite the weather I know that it was immensely enjoyed by many die hard track fans.
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\nThe last bit of your post bugs me a bit. Our sport is always catering to the athletes & die hard fans and that makes growth very difficult. I'm not saying the sport needs to grow by leaps & bounds every year but we seem to keep narrowing our focus to just those that care. At what point does that stop because the sport can't even afford that?
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\nThat said....could another city put together a great event? Ya, I think so but nobody seems to want to do it. What Eugene has going for it is a large core of people who want to put on a great event. It'd be awesome if organizations in New York or Chicago or LA wanted to host the trials. I'm sure trials in big cities would be awesome but I don't mind them being in Eugene for now.","date_added":"Apr 11th 2013, 12:48pm","nest":0,"liked":false,"member":{"wally_id":"35","email_settings":"7168","email":"chrisnickinson@gmail.com","address":"chrisnickinson","gender":"m","member_id":"3026","member_name":"Chris Nickinson","avatar_location":"av-3026.jpg","avatar_type":"upload","avatar":"\/\/www.runnerspace.com\/forum\/uploads\/av-3026.jpg"},"can_delete":false,"item_id":127901,"item_type":"news","pb_image":"\/\/www.runnerspace.com\/forum\/uploads\/av-3026.jpg","pb_title":"Chris Nickinson","pb_url":"profile.php?member_id=3026","pb_url_dns":"https:\/\/chrisnickinson.runnerspace.com\/","pb_wally_id":"35"},"741649":{"pb_id":"43662","pb_type":"members","likes":"0","parent_id":"0","pid":"741649","comment_id":"741649","member_id":"43662","comment":"I think that any other city would have a tough time topping the job that Eugene did in hosting the 2012 trials. Despite the weather I know that it was immensely enjoyed by many die hard track fans.","date_added":"Apr 11th 2013, 7:06am","nest":0,"liked":false,"member":[],"can_delete":false,"item_id":127901,"item_type":"news","pb_image":"\/\/www.runnerspace.com\/forum\/uploads\/av-43662.jpg","pb_title":"Dave Ross","pb_url":"profile.php?member_id=43662","pb_url_dns":"https:\/\/Dave-Ross.runnerspace.com\/","pb_wally_id":"1073377"}},"last_id":"741649","url":"comments.php?item_type=news&item_id=127901&item_url=gprofile.php?mgroup_id=88"}