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Pizzashillsmom t1_jb7w7r1 wrote

Eric Heiden had retired long ago the first time a single distance world championships was held. Back then only multiple distance world championships existed, sprint (2x500m + 2x1000m) and all around (every distance except 1000m from 500m up to 10000m). Heiden won both of these championships in the same year three times as well as an extra all around championship.

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bigbigboy999 t1_jb7r3tf wrote

I have been a Raiders fan for 41 years but I'm done with them now and forever. I hope Derek wins a couple of Super bowls with the saints.

It would be great if he could beat the Raiders in a super bowl just so I could see the look on Mark Davis's face at the end of the game.

In summation, fuck Mark Davis and the entire Raiders organization.

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b_m_hart t1_jb7l7kb wrote

TrackTown is a very famous track (for track and field) events, with many national and international top level events taking place there. In the US, anyone that follows track and field (particularly distance running) knows of TrackTown, and where it is.

The exerpt does nothing to imply that it's "minor" in fact exactly the opposite.

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tafinucane t1_jb7l0jn wrote

Tracktown refers to Track and Field, not speed skating.

Track and Field is of relatively low importance in the US, so it makes sense that its (arguably) greatest venue is a smallish college town in the Pacific NW. Kind of a nonsense statement typical of sportswriting filler.

Most non-mainstream sports in the US have their olympic training centers in Colorado, so that's probably the US version of Heerenveen.

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