>>61862011i was on the sports team, but American schools generally don't have a sort of sports festival like this. It's all about the individual teams and big events against other teams.
These events do always seem fun when you read about them in manga, but I do wonder how much I would have appreciated them as a kid. Japan seems to have a much greater cultural emphasis on these events, while you'd have to somehow push the generic track and field day into some kind of greater importance in the US.