Hammer To Be Featured for 2012 Olympic Trials
“Hammer time” is coming to Portland. When the competition schedule for the 2012 U.S. Olympic Track & Field Trials was unveiled on Wednesday, the most intriguing aspect involved the men’s and women’s hammer throw. Those two events will be contested back-to-back on June 21 on the soccer fields at the Nike World Headquarters in Beaverton. The remainder of the Trials, which includes eight days of competition over a 10-day period, will be held June 22 to July 1 at Hayward Field. The idea to put an early spotlight on the U.S. hammer throwers came from Vin Lananna and Greg Irwin, co-chairs for the TrackTown12 local organizing committee. “We’re calling this ‘hammer time,’ ” Lananna said.
