United States Olympic trials (track and field)

The event is regularly shown on domestic U.S. television and covered by a thousand members of the worldwide media.

Previous to the formation of TAC in 1979, the national governing body for most sports was the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU).

Or, insignificant to the U.S. team, a country is allowed one single entry if it has no athletes who have achieved a "B" standard.

If two or more athletes in an event final have met the "A" standard by the end of that event in the trials, then the top three who have met the "A" standard, based on their placement in the trials (finalists, in order of finish, then semi-finalists, in order of semi-final time/distance, then preliminary rounds, in order of best preliminary round time/distance), are on the Olympic team, with the fourth-best placement among those meeting the "A" standard being an alternate.

[2] The men's trials in 1968 were held at high elevation in northern California at Echo Summit, south of Lake Tahoe.

[2] United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC), and the TrackTown USA Local Organizing Committee announced the release of the updated competition schedule for the 2020 U.S. Olympic Team trials – Track and Field, that will take place June 18-27, 2021, at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon.