Jokers wrote:
World Athletics needs to wake up. Place World Championships in mega city centers. It’s the only way to get eyeballs and grow the sport. I remember when World XC was run in Boston it was freaking amazing.
This should be the topic of the thread. Sydney has numerous national parks right here in the basin, probably 10% of the land. Trail running is booming, yet these clowns cannot find a suitable cross country course??
I can only imagine it is one of those govt 'regional' initiatives..." lets have the World XC in woop woop" that should satisfy them.
This is why the general public don't give a f**K about athletics,,,its just become something you do as a kid, and if you are hopeless at anything else, you keep going.
...and this is coming from a self confessed secobnd tier sportsperson who actually excelled in the shallow pool of national athletics