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Stadium issues continue to plague U.S. track and field.
The sport has many problems in this country, one being a lack of suitable venues for high-level meets.
In this corner of the country, we're still waiting to learn the fate of the planned renovation of Hayward Field in Eugene. The stadium needs to be renovated for Eugene to stage the 2021 World Outdoor Championships.
Eugene secured that meet in 2015. The renovation was supposed to begin in 2016 and has been repeatedly delayed. At the moment, no start date has been announced, and a design for the renovated stadium has not been made public.