IAAF Announces 2019 Worlds Live - And The Winner is.....Doha.

stick with eharmony wrote:

So glad it wasn't Eugene. All the Lame Duck fanboys and Nike employee's can go eat it!

You're happy the meet will take place in the desert where virtually no fans will be able to attend at a time of the year that will diminish the competition? Your obsession with a publicly traded shoe company and a mid-sized public university appears to border on psychosis.

If I'm an athlete there's no way I go to that. As a distance runner I'm sure I could find a big road race to do locally that would pay something and bring me more attention.

I am so sure that the world's best marathoners will sacrifice a major fall marathon payday to represent their country in the heat of Doha at the World Championships Marathon which will probably be run at 4AM--what's so different? It's still 26.2 wherever it is, right?

Captain Track wrote:

I am so sure that the world's best marathoners will sacrifice a major fall marathon payday to represent their country in the heat of Doha at the World Championships Marathon which will probably be run at 4AM--what's so different? It's still 26.2 wherever it is, right?

well to be fair, the WC marathon is rarely if ever loaded with top talent

I can't wait to see the lovely stadium they build with slaves and indentured servants. If you think the climate is tough on the athletes, imagine working from dawn until dusk in blazing temperatures for little or no pay.

http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/nov/07/north-koreans-working-state-sponsored-slaves-qatar

TRACKTOWN GOES HOME DEVESTATED!!

Good catch. Even in late September the humidity will kill ya! If they could somehow push it to October the dew points drop to the low 60s.

you guys do know the big is for october right?

Did anyone think Eugene really had a chance? Come on!

ROJOalwayswrong wrote:

you guys do know the big is for october right?

Talk about a long peak if serious restructuring doesn't occur. WC marathon or big appearance fee at world major fall marathon? No doing both this time. Also they mentioned in proposal that the marathon would be at night to escape heat, though I thought i saw on twitter someone saying temp still 85 at night around that time of year.

This is great news. Infrastructure is built anyway for the FIFA 2022 World Cup. Stadium can be built with a roof and A/C, so they can adjust temperature to be a perfect 64F for the long distance events and heat it up a bit to 74F for the sprint events. Marathon can be run early am (like 4am or so) under artificial light, which would be a first, and frankly, quite awesome.

Good Eugene didn't get selected. Why should the city go into debt and residents be inconvenienced for a drug-addled sport?

Really . . . wrote:

stick with eharmony wrote:

So glad it wasn't Eugene. All the Lame Duck fanboys and Nike employee's can go eat it!

You're happy the meet will take place in the desert where virtually no fans will be able to attend at a time of the year that will diminish the competition? Your obsession with a publicly traded shoe company and a mid-sized public university appears to border on psychosis.

well done sir

Nike and Eugene should just put on a really big meet that weekend for those not wanting to deal with such a corrupt and terrible place as Qutar.

I'd actually be in favor of boycotting anything taking place in that terrorist petri dish of a country.

I'm sure a lot of the athletes aren't happy with having to plan for worlds in October, as well as a lot of meet directors. Who's going to gear up for a big race at Stanford in April when worlds are six months away instead of four? Do US championships move to August? What does this mean for the DL schedule? 10k types can kiss goodbye any plans to run track WC and turn around to do a fall marathon. One big headache.

observer of the world wrote:

The world's biggest financer of terror will also finance IAAF. That's what I would call a perfect match.

They already have the 2022 World Cup.

Dilll wrote:

I can't wait to see the lovely stadium they build with slaves and indentured servants. If you think the climate is tough on the athletes, imagine working from dawn until dusk in blazing temperatures for little or no pay.

http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/nov/07/north-koreans-working-state-sponsored-slaves-qatar

Well that's what Nike pretty much does over in Southeast Asia so I'd call it even on that. Still say screw Qatar though.

It will be fine. Olympic games in 2000 and 1988 were in late September / early October and it worked out fine. Everything gets shifted back a month.

True there is some conflict with 10k / marathoners but frankly probably impacts just a handful of people, and they can always double back with Dubai in January or one of the Japanese marathons.