Olympic decathlon champion Ashton Eaton‘s signature was printed on his high school track in Bend, Ore., as Mountain View High School dedicated the surface to the world-record holder Wednesday.
“I received this honor not as one person, but on behalf of everyone and everything that made me who I am,” Eaton said in a speech, standing on a platform on the track’s infield. “If I have done anything to deserve this recognition, it was simply giving my best towards something that I love, an effort that we are capable of.”
Eaton signed autographs and ran a lap on the track with kids.