Thousands of people from all over
the world are pouring into Eugene,
OR very different from Malaysia, of course.
Especially I look at the Alpine trees.
Beautiful, the world's best runners,
jumpers and throwers are here for the
World Athletics Championships for the
first time ever in the United States.
How big this is?
This will be the biggest sporting
event that's ever come to Oregon,
so can a college town in the Pacific
Northwest handle one of the biggest
track and field events in the world?
People who are working full
time are working full time,
plus people who are
working part time are working full time.
Here's the story live in Eugene for
the World Athletics Championships.
Welcome to the story.
I'm Pat Doris live in Eugene at the
world track and Field Championships
are going on behind us right now,
about two blocks back there
and the place is packed.
It's a gorgeous afternoon in Eugene.
There are thousands of people
here from all over the globe.
Athletes, coaches,
fans are going to talk about
everything that's going on in Eugene,
including the impact it's
having out in the city.
But first,
Orlando Sanchez is here with me,
and Oregon represented pretty
well on the world stage. Oh absolutely.
You nailed it past more than 30 athletes.
With local connections to this area
will be competing throughout this
wonderful event, including the one
and only Ryan Krauser, the world's
best shot putter and the man
delivered last night, plus heartbreak,
disappointment, frustration for
former Oregon Duck Devin Allen,
we're going to talk about that
disqualification that everyone
seems to be wondering about.
Yeah, I love hearing your
take on it all right?
Thanks Orlando, you know,
since it's a world competition,
they're literally.
People here from all over the globe late
last week had a chance to hang outside
one of the gates for about 30 minutes
just to see who would stop and talk to me.
It was fascinating.
We have one man and one woman.
Josephine Kang is from Malaysia.
She's a presidential delegate
and here with two athletes,
one is competing in the high jump,
the other is a runner.
She's hoping they do well,
but in the meantime she is marveling at
Eugene. The place is very different
from Malaysia, of course.
Especially I look at the Alpine trees.
It's beautiful.
And you have a long summer with all the
nice nice flowers and the big roses.
Well, it's very nice.
Awesome, that's good. I
also met a man from Hong Kong
who said most people call him OK.
He's also a delegate and a big fan of Eugene.
I really like this city,
he said he was here in 2014 and ended
up starting a program to bring Hong
Kong youth to Eugene because it's such
a great environment with active people.
It's not just international
folks who are here by the way,
Sandy Brown lives in Eugene.
Just had to come take a look.
I'm a substitute teacher and I know
that the country of Finland is using
the track and field at Creswell.
That's where I substitute,
teach and I just think it it's
wonderful that we're able to do this.
Kaden Keyserling is from Portland.
He's here to help the broadcasters.
I love. I
went to school. I go to school
here. I stay
right next to the Hayward field.
So I mean I love
seeing all this really great Joe
Zuckert is also from Portland and
here to help in the broadcast booth.
I teased him a bit.
I'm from Portland,
OR and I'm going to be a runner.
For this event, and when
you say you're a runner,
what event are you in?
I'm running?
I'm helping running for the commentators,
so mainly coffee back and forth,
but this one's for me.
I also got to meet some coaches,
Brooke Rasnick there in the red shirt
is a pole vault coach from Louisville,
KY. She's here to help.
Gabrielle Lyon, who just won the
NCAA pole vault title this year.
What's the one thing that
makes a pole vaulter be able
to fly now that there's a lot?
But I'll say speed speed is a big one,
so speed and technique.
Those two things are. Yeah, yeah.
Jeff Peters Meyer is also from
Louisville. He's here to coach
Shelby McEwen, A USA high jumper.
What's the key to a high jumper?
Being able to get so much hype?
Is there any one thing that
just got to be bouncy,
fast and bouncy and and? Yeah, really,
it's that spring in the take off.
Yeah, just gotta be fast elastic and
there's there's a lot of things.
But yeah, yeah, one thing and be tall.
I don't know that kind of helps. OK
the USA team here totals 151 athletes.
Can you imagine trying to
manage a group like that?
Kimberly Keenan Kirkpatrick.
Can she's one of the team managers
and is there any key to managing
a team of superstar athletes?
Calm patience positivity letting them
know that they've got some of the best.
Setting we've put them in a
great position to be successful,
so just really letting them know that. Yes,
indeed it takes a lot of calmness.
Can you imagine all those high
strung folks? Holy Cow track down.