美国与苏联、民主德国一道被誉为田径运动的世界三大强国。在世界杯田径赛上,这三个国家各自组队、与来自美洲、亚洲、欧洲和非洲各国的运动员所组成的联队角逐,仍能名列前茅,可见实力之雄厚。俄勒冈州位于美国西北部的太平洋沿岸。州内有一个只有10万人口的小城市,号称美国的田径之都,它就是蜚声国际体坛的尤金。在拥有二亿多人口的美国,如同尤金这样的中小城市成百上千,为什么唯独尤金享有如此崇高的称号呢?这话还得从头说起。尤金市有一所大学,叫俄勒冈大学。1904年,俄勒冈大学聘请了名叫比尔·海沃德的人出任该校田径体育运动教练。海沃德是一位经验丰富的教练,他把 Together with the Soviet Union and Democratic Germany, the United States has been hailed as the world’s three great powers of track and field. In the World Cup track and field competition, the three countries each team their own, with the athletes from the Americas, Asia, Europe and Africa, the formation of the United Wing race, can still be among the best, we can see the strength of the strong. Oregon is located on the Pacific Ocean in the northwestern United States. The state has a small city of only 100,000 people, known as the United States athletics capital, it is world famous Eugene. In the United States, with more than 200 million inhabitants, there are hundreds of small and medium-sized cities like Eugene, so why should Eugene enjoy such a lofty title? Eugene has a university, called the University of Oregon. In 1904, the University of Oregon hired a man named Bill Hayward as a sports instructor at the school. Hayward is an experienced coach, he put