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The June 21-30 U.S. Olympic Trials for track and field will be a showcase of America’s best track and field athletes who will be battling for a chance to qualify for Team USA and compete in this summer’s Paris Olympics. Even if you’re just a casual track fan, you can watch all of the action unfold live as it happens in Eugene, Oregon.
Top stars Sha’Carri Richardson (100, 200 meters), Noah Lyles (100, 200 meters), Ryan Crouser (shout put), Grant Holloway (110-meter hurdles), Athing Mu (800 meters), Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone (400-meter hurdles), Katie Moon (pole vault), Vallarie Allman (discus), and Anna Hall (heptathlon) might be gold medal favorites in Paris, but first and foremost they have to qualify for a place on Team USA by finishing among the top three at the Olympic Trials. (The qualifer and declaration lists will be available here, while the daily event schedule is available here.)
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Here’s how you can watch the Olympic-qualifying action unfold live
If you can find your way to Eugene—and are willing to pay the inflated hotel and Airbnb prices in town and nearby Springfield—you can watch it live in person at Hayward Field. Rebuilt in 2021, it’s one of the most advanced track and field facilities in the world, with an extremely fast track surface, a wind-blocking architectural design, and 12,650 seats that all offer great views and close-to-the-action ambiance. Tickets are still available for most days, ranging from $45 to $195.
If you can’t make it to Eugene, you can watch every moment of every event (including preliminary events) via TV broadcasts and livestreams. The U.S. Olympic Trials will be broadcast live and via tape delay with 11 total broadcast segments on NBC, USA Network, and Peacock. All event finals will air live on NBC during primetime and the entirety of the meet will be streamed on a combination of Peacock, NBCOlympics.com, NBC.com and the NBC/NBC Sports apps.
At the trials, there are 20 total events for women and men—10 running events from 100 meters to 10,000 meters (including two hurdles races and the 3,000-meter steeplechase), four throwing events (discus, shot put, javelin, and hammer throw), four jumping events (long jump, triple jump, high jump, and pole vault), the quirky 20K race walking event (held nearby in Springfield), and, of course, the seven-event heptathlon (women) and the 10-event decathlon (men).
For the highest echelon of athletes, the trials defines a make-or-break moment in their careers. Only three Olympic team spots (in each gender) are available in each event, and given the U.S. depth in all facets of track and field—sprints, hurdles, throws, jumps, and distance running events—it’s considered the world’s hardest all-around team to make. The U.S. is the most dominant team in the sport and has led the track and field medal count at every Olympics since 1984.
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