cinder track

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These were the first Olympics broadcast live using satellites and the last to be run on a cinder track; a bridge between older Olympics and the modern.

From Washington Times • Jul. 29, 2021

Bank was dismissed a few days after for shouting out over the staid Palmer as Mills sprinted the final 80 yards on the cinder track, the last time that surface was used at the Olympics.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 5, 2020

Harrison Dillard of the USA won the men’s 100m on a sodden cinder track that left him spattered with mud.

From The Guardian • Mar. 27, 2020

She sprinted in spiked shoes on a frozen pond when snow covered the cinder track in winter.

From New York Times • Jun. 15, 2017

For the use of a section of the cinder track to serve as tennis courts the German authorities demanded and received £50!

From Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben by Mahoney, Henry Charles