Thursday, June 11th, is the inaugural Festival of Excellence event to be held here at University of Toronto's Varsity Centre Stadium, a beautiful and intimate field in the uptown core near Bay and Bloor. The complex is recently renovated with a striking blue synthetic track and 5000 seat grandstand. Standing room only tickets for this event are $25 dollars while grandstand seating ranges from $50 (obstructed view seats) to $110 dollars, with finish line seats at $160 and finish area (whatever that means) at $250.
The depth of this field gets richer by the day. 100m and 200m WR holder Usain Bolt will be competing in the 100m against the likes of Shawn Crawford and Ivory Williams. The 400m sports our own Tyler Christopher and LeShawn Merritt while the mens 5000 meters has 3 sub-13 entries in Saif Shaheen, Boniface Kiprop and Ahmad Abdullah. Lists for the women's events have yet to be posted.
I think I'd like to go. I better get tickets soon or be stuck with bad seating. I think the $75 grandstand seating would be a steal for an event of this calibre, and who knows when we'll see this kind of talent in Toronto (or even Canada) again, barring winning an Olympic bid.
Friday, May 29, 2009
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