Helicopters land in the track-and-field stadium behind the center, and ambulances stream in regularly.
People sometimes mention the track-and-field runner as a comparably lonely figure, but I have to laugh.
"Sonic at the Olympic Games" features the spiky-haired hedgehog racing in track-and-field events.
Adding to the intrigue, the track itself had produced super-fast times through the first three days of track-and-field competition.
In 2006 and 2010, Spanish police launched wide-ranging antidoping investigations, finding abundant evidence of illegal activities by doctors, professional riders and track-and-field athletes.
At the beginning, they produced athletic wear, likely inspired by Missoni himself, who had been a track-and-field star specializing in 400-meter relays and hurdles.
Bryan Clay, 28, showed his mastery during the two-day, 10-event classic of track-and-field athleticism, earning the unofficial title of best all-around athlete on the planet.
On Tuesday, another issue came back to light: In 2008, Hermann, then an assistant athletic director at Louisville, was involved in a sex-discrimination lawsuit brought by a female assistant track-and-field coach.
Members of the U.S. track-and-field team, among others, also took to Twitter in recent days to complain about the marketing rules around the Games, which they said deprive them of income.
Sunday was a mixed bag for American track-and-field athletes.
Suhr's pole-vaulting win was the second gold medal the U.S. track-and-field team has secured during three full days of athletics competitions, following Sanya Richards-Ross winning the women's 400-meter race on Sunday night.
Following an injury-plagued summer, the widely hyped track-and-field star not only botched the baton exchange during the men's 4x100 relay semi-final, but he failed to qualify for the 100-meter final, much less medal, throwing his marketability into question.
Staff members say the center, part of a network that includes several others in Spain, is managed by the regional government and works often with professional athletes, including cyclists, track-and-field athletes, soccer and tennis players, providing advice on nutrition and training regimes and top-class fitness equipment.
The U.S. track team, which has been struggling to improve its track-and-field fortunes, grabbed its second gold of the games as Jennifer Suhr won the women's pole vaulting competition. (Cuba's Yarisley Silva got silver.) Overall, it was the U.S.'s 29th gold, two short of China for the lead.
President Barack Obama's former constituency has put the finishing touches on a 560-page book that the grandson of Jesse Owens -- the first African-American to win four Olympic gold medals in track and field -- will hand deliver to the International Olympics Committee in Switzerland.
Organisers had planned to scale down the stadium following the Olympics, converting it from an 80, 000-capacity arena to a 28, 000-seater track and field venue.
No current British or Irish athletics competitor - that is, a cyclist, track and field athlete or swimmer - made the top 100 in the year of the London Olympics.
Holding the trials in swimming and track and field the two highest-profile sports very close to the Games, and away from the clutter of the NBA and NHL playoffs, NBC has a platform to promote its roughly 5, 000 hours of coverage of the London Olympics.
And as you know, in big-time Olympic sports like track and field, image is everything.
Her lifetime ambition is to follow in the footsteps of the North African nation's legendary middle-distance track and field athletes and win Olympic gold.
The 160-strong US track and field team will train in and around the city as will 60 athletes from the Jamaican squad.
Kearney was the first African-American coach to win an NCAA national team championship in Division I track and field, and she was the first African-American to serve as a head coach at Texas.
Mr. Siegel got his first high-profile test during the U.S. track and field trials in late June when Jeneba Tarmoh finished third in the 100-meter sprint but was later declared in a dead heat with Allyson Felix.
When Smith ran his 19.5, it was rated as the greatest-ever performance in track and field, according to scoring tables in use at the time.
Boxing, tennis, track and field, soccer and horse-racing are being squeezed out.
The future of the stadium now appears to hinge on the age-old conundrum of whether track and field can share with Premier League football.
It's a much smaller group but all three of the track and field gold medallists were state school-educated.
Whether those stellar successes will overshadow or inspire the track and field deeds of the next week no-one is yet quite sure.
ATHENS, Greece -- Sweden won three gold medals in track and field events in 24 hours as Stefan Holm took the gold in the high jump and Christian Olsson triumphed in the triple jump.
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