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This story appears in ESPN The Magazines August 22 College Football Preview Issue. Subscribe today!On a late-June morning, Oregon Ducks junior wide receiver Devon Allen practices his starts in the 110-meter hurdles at Hayward Field. In two weeks, on July 9, he will take his mark on the same starting line when Oregon hosts the U.S. Olympic track and field trials. On that day, to become one of the few active college football players ever to make an Olympic team, hell have to beat some serious competition in Aries Merritt and Jason Richardson, the 2012 gold and silver medalists. You cant be starstruck when you run against them, Allen says. Hopefully theyre worried about me too. If he makes the team, Allen will face a tough decision: Play with the Ducks or go pro in track post-Rio. But Allen isnt one to get ahead of himself, and The Mag is there as he approaches his first hurdle-: earning a ticket to Brazil.Double teamHis football teammates say hes a track star who plays football, but Allen insists hes a two-sport athlete who isnt ready to sacrifice one for the other. After winning his first U.S. outdoor title in the 110-meter hurdles in 2014, Allen led Ducks receivers with seven TD catches as a redshirt freshman before tearing his ACL at the 2015 Rose Bowl. It took me 12 months to feel 100 percent and confident again, Allen says, crediting his football training with helping his track. We train for explosiveness and strength, and that plays into hurdling.With the trials only two weeks away, Allen refuses to allow fear of injury to keep him off the gridiron. You can get hurt doing anything. These guys come to my track meets, and I like to be around the team. Besides, he adds, after the injury, I got faster.Running homeOver the past two weeks, Haywards green-and-yellow decor has given way to red, white and blue. I practice here every day, Allen says. Its a definite advantage. At the July 9 final, the crowd offers Allen deafening support during his strong start; with three hurdles to go, he is even with the other leaders. Thats when I knew, he says. My last hurdles are really strong.As he crosses the line in a personal-best 13.03, Allen realizes he has booked his trip to Rio de Janeiro, where he will be favored to medal on Aug. 15. He bolts toward the crowd and leaps into the stands, where Ducks right guard Cameron Hunt hugs him and points him toward his family, uniformed in Team Allen T-shirts. Afterward, Allen says it all feels surreal. I knew I could run that time. I knew it was in there. [But] it still hasnt set in. 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The highly stacked Brooklyn Beatdown Street Fighter V tournament at ESL One just saw a major upset, and its of Disney Channel original movie-like proportions.Evolution 2016 champion Lee Infiltration Seon-Woo lost 0-2 against Sons of Asgards Thomas Brolynho Proen?a in the top 32 winners bracket.Brolynho takes the series in a dominating fashion from @infiltration85!https://t.co/JzLkSLgFD8 #TBB pic.twitter.com/RnQQtfgsUF- ESL Street Fighter (@ESLSF) October 1, 2016The crowd went absolutely wild as the reigning World Champion succumbed to the unknown Brazilian.ESPN caught up with Brolynho after his win to get his take on what happened.Brolynho is a geophysicist from Rio de Janeiro, and even he had trouble putting into words what he had accomplished.I didnt expect it, Brolynho said. This is my first time in New York. This is my first time in North America.Using a combination of matchup knowledge, impeccable spacing and timing, Brolynho coerced Infiltration into playing his game rather than the other way around. I tried to control him in the large range or very close to him because [in the] middle range its very good for [Infiltrations character] Nash.It was far from a cakewalk for Brolynho. Infiltration can adapt very quickly.He did that actually in the second game, Brolynho said. [But then] I trieed to be as fast as him.dddddddddddd It worked.Brolynho was able to use his understanding of the Nash matchup to carve out a workable strategy.Against [my character] Necalli, its hard to throw fireballs, and its hard to get close to Necalli because of his solid light punch, he said. So, I tried to control him using my V-Skill and avoid him [throwing] fireballs against me.Infiltration understood how I was using my V-Skill, and was starting to be in a range to where my V-Skill doesnt reach him. But the problem on that is that he would go to the corner too fast because the V-Skill could be in any place that I want to use [it].Because Infiltration was backing himself into a corner to avoid Brolynhos V-Skill, the tactic worked to the Brazilians advantage.Brolynho doesnt believe that Infiltration was playing lightly or underestimating him; rather, he thinks Infiltration was having trouble adapting. In these games, its hard to change too much [in] your game in just two matchups or three matchups, Brolynho said.Brolynho conceded that the match could have gone the other way in a best-of-five. Even after his momentous win, Brolynho believes we should never doubt Infiltration. ' ' '