The Homecoming: Tommy Skipper returns to Hayward Field

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For Tommy Skipper, the Prefontaine Classic on Sunday, and the U.S. Olympic Track & Field Trials later this month, are a homecoming.

He’s the guy who grew up at Hayward Field, watching his older brothers, Scott and Art, throw the javelin for the University of Oregon.

Art, the 1992 NCAA champion for the Ducks, died in a plane crash in October 2001, when Tommy was a junior in high school.

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