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Geena Gall

Geena Gall just made the 2012 Olympic team in the women’s 800m and is a rising star in US middle-distance racing.

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Bend’s Adam Craig talks mountain biking

After the final World Cup in France, Adam Craig took some time out to speak to 1859 about his qualifying campaign, the rigors of Olympic mountain bike racing and where the rest of the season will take him.

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Fried Egg I’m in Love

1859 Food Cartographer Brynn Opsahl ate at Fried Egg I’m in Love on SE Hawthorne in Portland and the fare lived up to the hype – Brynn is in love.

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Two Ducks Set to Migrate to London

Two University of Oregon graduates put on an impressive show during the opening days of the Olympic Track and Field Trials at historic Hayward Field in Eugene—with both men breaking records. Portland native Galen Rupp (class of 2008) set a new Olympic Trials record in the men’s 10,000 meters, and Ashton Eaton, a 2010 U of O graduate who grew up in Bend, set a new world record in the decathlon. This achievement is widely considered to garner the record holder the title “greatest athlete in the world.”

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Nick Symmonds

Oregon Track Club Elite’s Nick Symmonds has been America’s top 800m runner since 2008. He hopes to leave London with some hardware.

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Oregon’s Music Festivals are a Summer Highlight

Waterfront Blues Festival Blues fans should mark their calendars for the 2012 Safeway Waterfront Blues Festival July 4 – 8 on the waterfront in downtown Portland. The festival features 150 acts and four stages, along with cool extras like “Blues” cruises on the Willamette, intimate “After-Hours All-Stars Concerts” in the Marriott Hotel Ballroom, and a fireworks display on opening night.

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Rodeo Season in Oregon

Summer is rodeo season in Oregon. Check out this list of Oregon’s premier summer rodeos then get out and get your cowpoke on!

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Portland Squared – Friday Gallery

On May 19, 2012 the Oregon chapter of the American Society of Media Photographers hosted the first PDX Squared photography event. Portland photographers, both professional and emerging, were invited to enter the contest, aimed at documenting the culture of Portland. The ASMP took one square mile of downtown Portland and divided it into forty-nine squares, with each photographer claiming a square as their territory.

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Portland Squared – Thursday Gallery

On May 19, 2012 the Oregon chapter of the American Society of Media Photographers hosted the first PDX Squared photography event. Portland photographers, both professional and emerging, were invited to enter the contest, aimed at documenting the culture of Portland. The ASMP took one square mile of downtown Portland and divided it into forty-nine squares, with each photographer claiming a square as their territory.