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tafinucane t1_jb7l0jn wrote

Reply to comment by octopus_limbs in US teen Jordan Stolz is first man to win three individual golds at speed skating worlds | Speed Skating by carnifex2005

Tracktown refers to Track and Field, not speed skating.

Track and Field is of relatively low importance in the US, so it makes sense that its (arguably) greatest venue is a smallish college town in the Pacific NW. Kind of a nonsense statement typical of sportswriting filler.

Most non-mainstream sports in the US have their olympic training centers in Colorado, so that's probably the US version of Heerenveen.

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AlexG55 t1_jb7lg3u wrote

I think the US equivalent of Heerenveen might be more like if the US had a national center for auto racing training and it was in Indianapolis.

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