EUGENE, Ore. — If you travel along the Florence-Eugene Highway here, with a length of approximately 60 miles following the north bank of the Siuslaw River, you eventually reach its most elevated point of 769 feet at Cougar Pass.
It’s a similar journey to how Amanda Bingson dealt with incredible heartbreak Wednesday.
She took the high road.
“I was absolute garbage,” Bingson said. “I embarrassed myself.”
There won’t be a second consecutive Olympic berth for the Silverado High School and UNLV alumna, won’t be a trip to the Rio Games next month, won’t be anything except returning home to Texas and wondering what might have been.