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On track for the same track?

By Helene Elliott
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EUGENE, Ore. -- Bill Roe, USA Track and Field’s acting chief executive, hinted on Tuesday that the Adidas Classic meet -- which has not drawn well the past few years -- might be moved from the Home Depot Center in Carson to another, unspecified stadium in southern California.

Michael Roth, a spokesman for AEG, which operates the Carson athletic complex, said today that no decision had been made for next year’s meet. Adidas essentially bought the meet from AEG and has run it the past three years.

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‘We are continuing to talk with Adidas and we are hopeful of making a deal to return the meet to the Home Depot Center,’ Roth said.

-- Helene Elliott

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Helene Elliott

Helene Elliott was with the Los Angeles Times’ Sports department from 1989 to 2024, first as a staff writer and then, starting in 2006, as a columnist. She became the first female journalist to be honored with a plaque in the Hall of Fame of a major professional sport as the 2005 winner of the Hockey Hall of Fame’s Elmer Ferguson Award, awarded to writers “who have brought honor to journalism and to hockey.” A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, she has covered 18 Olympics.

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