A hypothetical track and field May Madness — or, geeking out on NCAA numbers

Beau Dure
7 min readJun 25, 2022
Photo by Austris Augusts on Unsplash

Track and field, at its core, is an individual sport. If you only pay attention when the sport is front and center at the Olympics, you may think otherwise, given the relentless emphasis on medal counts. But these are not the US basketball teams, who generally train together only for big events, or the US soccer teams, who play a lot of games outside the World…

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Beau Dure

Author of sports books, slayer of false narratives, player of music