USATF launch U.S. Open at Madison Square Garden; Lagat takings to Garden for men's mile
Track & Field will come back to the country's premier sports and activity venue for the 99th year on Saturday, January 28, when the U.S. Open Track & Field at Madison Square Garden kicks off USA Track & Field's 2012 pass Championship Series, USATF announce Thursday.
Garden legend Bernard Lagat will headline in the men's mile in a USA Track & Field meet that promise to glass case the best of the sport's practice in a sleek in-stadium and put out appearance. The U.S. Open will be the first track meet to be detained in The Garden following the conclusion of the first phase of the building's historic, top-to-bottom, three-year Transformation, and will be the first major specialized meet in the United States as the 2012 Olympic Year gets under way.
"Madison Square Garden feel like home to me, and I am so happy to be coming back in 2012," said Lagat, a 2-time Olympic medalist and the American record holder who has won eight 1-mile races in the Garden. "I can't think of a better place to kick off the Olympic year. I look onward to seeing the New York track fans who have support me for so many years, many new fans in the new Garden."
The U.S. Open will be transmit on ESPN from 7-9 p.m. Eastern on January 29 and is part of USATF's most aggressive TV schedule in years.
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