Josh Kerr on Grand Slam Track: I want to enjoy being the best in the world and not worry about going after an Olympic title

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    Ruxton Towers XC

    Member since 11/19/2022.

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    4 hours ago 07/11/2024 8:28pm EDT
    re: this is unbelievable

    It isn't just a "Kerr problem." This extends to the whole concept of the new league.

    We already had a fabulous league that hosted meaningful one-day meets. It was called the Diamond League. The problem was that there were 13 or 14 meets each year and most of those have no "meaning" to the broader track fans. I don't really care about some random early season meet in China or North Africa. Sorry.

    We could have solved this problem by designating four of the existing meets as the "Classics" and building them up. Brussels, Paris, London, Pre. Something like that. Make the pay-out $100,000 dollars to the athlete that wins all four of those meets and now you have a series similar to the Grand Slam in tennis.

    Just making a new league is doomed to fail because the meets have no history (they are not classics) and nobody wants to watch a three day meet where you get paid only if you win in your off event as well...

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    4 hours ago 07/11/2024 8:55pm EDT
    re: Awsi Dooger

    Awsi Dooger wrote:

    I can't believe anybody roots for this guy against Jakob

    It's like they were so desperate to oppose Jakob from 7+ years ago they refuse to consider who they got stuck with

    Jakob is fun to watch great running form, unique training, fast races, amazing performances, beats the africans. I wish he didnt have those stupid zoomer tats but other than that he is just fun to watch. Kerr is good but his whole personality is “i beat jakob” without jakob he is irrelevant

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    rojo

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    4 hours ago 07/11/2024 8:56pm EDT
    re: cramister

    cramister wrote:

    This sport would be better if the olympics weren't the pinnacle of it

    But that's not realistic. And that's what makes the Olympics so so so great.

    And to everyone who says we only have 1 meet that matters. That's hogwash. We already basically have a Grand Slam - World Indoors, USAs, Worlds/Olympics and then the new supercharged Diamond League final.

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    Ruxton Towers XC

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    4 hours ago 07/11/2024 9:10pm EDT
    re: rojo

    rojo wrote:

    But that's not realistic. And that's what makes the Olympics so so so great.

    And to everyone who says we only have 1 meet that matters. That's hogwash. We already basically have a Grand Slam - World Indoors, USAs, Worlds/Olympics and then the new supercharged Diamond League final.

    I agree with Rojo. We have existing meets that have meaning. That is what matters when you are trying to get people (or yourself) to care about something.

    We assign meaning to things that have deep roots in our culture. New, fake, or invented "traditions" don't usually stick because people know they are not authentic.

    The Olympics are real. The World Championships are real. World XC used to be hotly contested and esteemed. World Indoors. Diamond League Final. Add in some classic Diamond League meets like Bislett Games, Pre, Berlin, Zürich, etc. for non-Olympic Years and you have enough "meaningful meets."

    The real problem is that meets I just named watered down financially (pay is too low) and watered down competitively as well (athletes can dodge each other).

    We didn't need a new league. We needed everyone to do the meets listed above and for them to get paid real money. As it is, they get less than Darts players or the rando who finished 18th at Billiards Worlds. Or 141st place in the PGA. That dude, Chad Hadley, made over half a million dollars for finishing 141st in the league. Nice work!

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  • Damagecontrol

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    1 hour ago 07/11/2024 11:44pm EDT
    re: rojo

    He’s just setting up his excuse if he doesn’t win gold in Paris. The Olympics isn’t really what I’m aiming for, so when I don’t win it is because it wasn’t really my main goal. Yeah, Steve Prefontaine, Lasse Viren, Frank Shorter and a host of others said the same thing. Not. What spin.

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