RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Almost 7,000 miles away from the Olympic Stadium, the Oregon Ducks have started football practice with an eye on the season-opening game.
On Monday night, the Ducks will break for a "team meeting" to turn their attention to Rio de Janeiro and watch wide receiver Devon Allen make his Olympic debut. Allen will run in the opening heats of the 110-meter hurdles, a berth he earned by winning the Olympic Trials in front of his college community at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon, last month.
So confident Allen was going to be Rio-bound, he celebrated by leaping into the crowd and posing for selfies — a move he planned the night before the trials.