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INDIANAPOLIS – The United States first held a national track and field championship in 1876, near the end of Reconstruction. There was a nationals during two World Wars. There was one in 1980, even though that meet selected a team that never went to the Moscow Olympics.
But after 144 years without interruption, a pandemic might mean no national track and field meet in 2020.
What to do next is an opportunity to “see what track and field could look like,” said Jeff Porter, chair of the athletes’ advisory committee for USA Track & Field.