A couple things ...
-- I think the fate of Hayward Field has been settled.
I expect the stadium will be razed and rebuilt in a privately-funded reconstruction expected to cost more than $200 million. The new stadium will look something like the renderings rolled last month and nothing like the current stadium with its iconic east grandstand.
But the debate rages on, and probably will long after the new version of the stadium opens for business in the spring of 2020.
In this R-G op-ed by former IAAF senior manager Peter Thompson, he argues the University of Oregon has not kept faith with track fans or the community of Eugene by scrapping the original plan for the Hayward Field reconstruction.