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Friday, January 28, 2011

Millrose Games 2011

Millrose Games 2011: Among the quickest players in Major League Soccer, Bryan Jordan of the L.A. Galaxy will complete a full field for the Super 60 II at the 104 th Millrose Games. Launched in 2010, the Super 60 II is a 60-meter proving ground for stars to showcase the universal component of speed in all sports, and to help determine which sport has the most potent combination of power, speed and acceleration.

After more than a century, the Millrose Games maintain their position as a singular event in track and field.

There are the tight quarters and manic activity, suggesting a three-ring circus; the officials circling the track in tuxedos add to the effect. There are the widely disparate events — representing, in a sense, the highbrow and lowbrow of track and field — clattering along the curved wooden track of the Garden, a techno beat thumping all the while in the background. Read More Millrose Games 2011