Grand Slam Track cancels L.A. event, ending inaugural season: reports

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· Posted: Jun 12, 2025 1:20 PM EDT | Last Updated: 6 hours ago

The inaugural play of Grand Slam Track has reportedly travel to an abrupt end.

The 4th and last halt of the league was scheduled for Los Angeles connected June 28 astatine UCLA's Drake Stadium, but according to aggregate media reports, that halt was to beryllium cancelled connected Thursday.

A idiosyncratic with cognition of the Grand Slam Track determination told the Associated Press it was owed to economical issues with the venue. The idiosyncratic added the caller way league, founded by U.S. sprinting large Michael Johnson, is looking toward 2026 and is expected to denote caller investors adjacent week.

The idiosyncratic spoke connected information of anonymity due to the fact that the determination hadn't been publically announced. A gathering with the athletes was slated to instrumentality spot aboriginal Thursday.

The inaugural play began successful Kingston, Jamaica, successful aboriginal April earlier meets in Miramar, Fla., and Philadelphia past month. Philadelphia's conscionable had its schedule condensed from 3 days, similar the erstwhile 2 Slams, to 2 days.

Canada's Marco Arop was the lone Canadian jock to perpetrate to the afloat play and competed successful the 3 erstwhile meets. The 26-year-old from Edmonton won the abbreviated region Slam rubric successful Philadelphia.

The archetypal 3 events doled retired astir $9.45 cardinal US successful prize money, with different $3 cardinal expected to beryllium paid successful L.A. Bonuses were expected to spell to season-long winners of the categories.