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Eugene stars shine bright at Trials
■Oregon athletes make the
mark for the Olympics,
proving that Tracktown, USA
does indeed rule the field
By Jeff Smith
Oregon Daily Emerald
The city of Eugene is certainly
well represented at the U.S.
Olympic Trials in Sacramento,
Calif., with past, present and fu
ture Eugeneans taking part in the
prominent meet.
But perhaps no Eugene athlete
has captured the hearts of Ameri
ca quite like distance runner
Marla Runyan.
On Sunday the Eugene resi
dent finished third in the
women’s 1,500 meter race at Cal
State Sacramento’s Hornet Stadi
um.
Her run of 4 minutes and 6.44
seconds was good enough to
qualify her for the Olympic
Games in Sydney, Australia.
So Runyan, how’s it feel to be
an Olympian?
“It felt like a miracle,” Runyan
told a herd of reporters after qual
ifying for her first Olympic team.
It might seem hard to believe
that a female distance runner
would garner such attention and
have articles written about her in
magazines such as Sports Illus
trated and Newsweek.
But the story is not just simply
about the runner from Eugene.
It’s of the runner from Eugene
who is legally blind.
You see, Runyan was born
with macular degeneration,
which means the only vision she
has is peripheral.
She attended San Diego State
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University and graduated with a
bachelor’s degree from the Edu
cation of the Deaf and a master’s
degree from the Education of
Deaf-Blind Children.
She competed in the Para
lympics in 1992 and 1996.
And here she is, on her way to
the Olympic Games, becoming
the first legally blind athlete to
ever make a U.S. Olympic team.
To top it off, she even has her
own web site (www.marlarun
yan.com) that includes many
personal anecdotes.
“Today my visual acuity is
20/300 in the left eye and 20/400
in the right,” writes Runyan on
her web site. “This is WITH con
tact lenses. I am very used to my
eyes and how the world appears
to me. It is not a factor or an ex
cuse for a bad race.
“Sure, there are things I may
never be able to do because of my
vision impairment. But hopeful
ly making the Olympic Team is
n’t one of them!”
It appears it wasn’t.
People may still not believe
that a legally blind woman could
be Olympic-bound. But as the
old phrase goes, “seeing is believ
ing.”
Past and present
Ducks compete
Kelly Blair-Labounty is going to
the show, again.
The former Duck was there for
the Olympic Games in Atlanta in
1996, where she finished eighth
in the women’s heptathlon.
And on Saturday she made
sure she would go to her second
Olympic Games when she placed
third in the heptathlon.
She became the first Duck to
qualify for the 2000 U.S. Olympic
Team with possibly more to come
later on.
Blair-Labounty had finished the
first round of competition at fifth
place after scoring marks of 13.72
seconds in the 100 meter hurdles,
5 feet, 7 inches in the high jump,
44 feet in the shot put and 24.61
in the 200 meter dash.
She knew she needed to have a
strong second day to qualify. And
she did, with marks of 21 feet in
the long jump, 151-7 in the javelin
and 2:14.24 in the 800 meters.
Making the Olympic team was
especially sweet for her after over
coming back injuries and Achilles
and calf muscle strains in May.
A current Duck who wrapped
up competition on Sunday was
junior Karis Howell, and while
she may not be headed to Sydney,
she still has a lot to be proud of.
Howell capped off her All
American season by competing in
the women’s javelin competition.
She finished 13th in her open
ing qualifying round with a heave
of 144-7. The throw wasn’t
enough to move her onto the fi
nals, and she ended up finishing
25th overall out of 28 partici
pants.
Tracktown, USA
scores another
Eugene will certainly be the
place to be for track and field in
the year 2001.
On Friday, it was formally an
nounced that the USA Outdoor
Track and Field Championships
will be held at legendary Hay
ward Field.
The meet will return here after
its successful showing in the sum
mer of 1999.
The USA Championships will
be held June 21-24 and will fol
low two other big-time competi
tions. The annual Prefontaine
Classic is tentatively marked for
May 27, and then the 2001 NCAA
Track and Field Championships
will take place from May 30-June
2.
Mark your calendars now.