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The U.S. Olympic Team Trials – Track & Field were held in Eugene, Oregon this week on the campus of the University of Oregon. The event was held in the small college town due to its history with the sport.
Can you name the company started in Eugene, Oregon (by two college alums) which as a distributor to a Japanese company & went on to ‘invent’ jogging?

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Nike
The company was founded by Bill Bowerman & Frank Knight first as Blue Ribbon Sports, importing Onitsuka shoes from Japan. Later they went to launch their own line of products under Nike.
Read More about how the company popularized jogging in the US.
Watch Snoop Dogg run 200m at the event.

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On 4 December 1971, a concert with Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention was held in the casino’s theatre. During the concert, the place suddenly caught fire when somebody in the audience fired a flare gun towards the ceiling.
Another  music band was in town at the time, and took inspiration from the event and wrote a famous song about it.
Can you identify the song & the band?

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Smoke on the Water by Deep Purple
The "smoke on the water" that became the title of the song (credited to bassist Roger Glover, who related how the title occurred to him when he woke from a dream a few days later) referred to the smoke from the fire spreading over Lake Geneva from the burning casino.
Read More about the song.