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Grand Slam Track Partners With Jamaica Tourism Board

Grand Slam Track and the Jamaica Tourist Board have announced a partnership ahead of the inaugural Grand Slam Track event in Kingston this spring. The partnership is between the destination and the track competition launched by four-time Olympic champion Michael Johnson. Kingston was previously announced as host of the first of four Slam events April […]

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Grand Slam Track Adds Miami and Philadelphia to Inaugural 2025 Schedule

The new professional track competition being organized by four-time Olympic champion Michael Johnson, Grand Slam Track, will have a meet in Miami from May 2-4, 2025 and Philadelphia from May 30–June 1. “South Florida knows how to host big events and that’s exactly what we’re bringing with Grand Slam Track,” said Johnson, the league’s founder […]

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Ryan Crouser of the United States poses after winning the gold medal in the shot put at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest. Crouser is a fan of World Athletics' plan to pay gold medalists in athletics at the 2024 Olympic Summer Games in Paris. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

World Athletics’ Cash for Paris Olympic Winners Debated Worldwide

Winning an Olympic gold medal gives an athlete a spot in history, the chance to forever be called a gold medalist and go down in the record books. But in the modern era of the Games, athletes have pointed out repeatedly how those things are intrinsic but do not pay the increasing bills that come […]

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U.S. Olympic Champion Sprinter Michael Johnson Creates Grand Slam Track

Four-time Olympic Champion Michael Johnson has launched Grand Slam Track, a new global professional track competition with plans to launch in the spring of next year with four events around the world and a prize pool of $12.6 million, the announcement coming less than 40 days before the start of the 2024 Olympic Summer Games […]

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