Ashland's A.G. Kruger looking to assure his Olympic ticket in Thursday's hammer-throw trials

Published: Wednesday, June 20, 2012, 10:27 PM     

EUGENE, Ore. -- This place is to track and field what Cleveland is to football and, well, football.

From Track Town Pizza to the lone luggage carousel at the Eugene Airport, signs proudly welcome more than 1,000 of the nation's best athletes to "TrackTown USA" as it celebrates the return of the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials Thursday through July 1. If the athletes themselves are in a celebratory mood the next 11 days, they can hoist a TrackTown Triple Jump Pale Ale brewed at Rogue Ales, a few blocks from Hayward Field.