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while the crowd was silent for the
start of the 100, and the consequent
uproar from the crowd disrupted
the sprint.
The starter “was holding for
days,” Montgomery said. “Every
body was really tense.”
The delayed start of the 100
came after two false starts by Jon
Drummond, one of the favorites in
the race, who was disqualified be
cause of the two fouls. The sprint
ers also had to deal with Maurice
Greene, the Hayward Field crowd
favorite who attended the meet but
didn’t compete. Greene stood
camped at the finish line, and
Montgomery said the gamesman
ship bothered him.
“I haven’t had a chance to see
him sprint yet this season, but now
he’s seen me,” Montgomery said.
“But maybe (the slow time) was
good, because now he’ll say ‘Hey, I
can beat these guys.’”
The race itself was exciting to the
finish, where Montgomery edged
Kim Collins by only 0.01 seconds.
In the 110 hurdles, Johnson had
a similar showdown with Terrence
Trammell, but their race got off
clean on the first try. Johnson, the
American record-holder in the
event, edged Trammell by 0.01
seconds, though his time was 0.04
seconds slower than the Pre Clas
sic record.
In the meet’s final race, the mile,
Moroccan El Guerrouj came into
Sunday’s meet with high hopes to
wow what he called “a public that
understands athletics so profound
ly.” El Guerrouj broke the mark for
the fastest mile on American soil at
the 2001 Pre Classic, and had spo
ken of breaking that record again.
But wind and a lack of prepara
tion hampered the “King of the
Mile,” and his winning time of
3:50.89 was 0.97 seconds slower
than his 2001 time.
“It was the first time I raced all
season,” El Guerrouj said through
an interpreter after his race Sunday.
“So I didn’t have a rhythm. Still,
I’m very satisfied with my race.”
El Guerrouj echoed his senti
ments from last year, saying the
Hayward Field crowd is one of the
most knowledgeable and inspira
tional crowds in the world.
“He says that this is one of the
best crowds,” El Guerrouj’s inter
preter said. “He says he will come
back here every year until the end
of his career.”
So if the day didn’t belong to the
track stars, it must have instead be
longed to the field athletes. The
shot putters started that trend, but
it was carried out by the high
jumpers, who staged a thrilling
competition of their own. Five ath
letes hit 7 feet, 6 1/2 inches, but
only one, Charles Clinger, cleared
the next height of 7-8 1/2. Clinger’s
clearance at that height gave him
the Prefontaine Classic and Hay
ward Field record in the event,
breaking the mark held by Ameri
can record-holder Charles Austin.
In a pole vault competition that
lasted long after all the track events
finished, Tim Mack outlasted three
other vaulters at 19-2 to win the
event. Many fans stayed for the du
ration of the vault, despite the ab
sence of any other events.
Saturday’s Pre Classic may not
permanently change Eugene’s fa
mous nickname, but for one day at
least, Track Town turned into Shot
Put Town.
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