Replace track 10,000m at world championships with the XC

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icrlp05

3 months ago 04/08/2024 1:21pm EDT

The 10,000m is dead, long live the 10,000m (XC).

After listening to the podcast this week with RoJo trying to resurrect world xc, the answer to me is obvious.

The only way you're going to get World XC to matter is by putting it in one of the few meets that matter.

Added bonus is it limits the Africans to 3 athletes per, which is why the non-Africans don't really bother atm - they have no chance because there are too many good Africans.

Just make World XC the world 10,000m - get great fan engagement and replace the most boring event in all of sports.

3 months ago 04/08/2024 1:24pm EDT

re: icrlp05

icrlp05 wrote:
The 10,000m is dead, long live the 10,000m (XC).
After listening to the podcast this week with RoJo trying to resurrect world xc, the answer to me is obvious.
The only way you're going to get World XC to matter is by putting it in one of the few meets that matter.
Added bonus is it limits the Africans to 3 athletes per, which is why the non-Africans don't really bother atm - they have no chance because there are too many good Africans.
Just make World XC the world 10,000m - get great fan engagement and replace the most boring event in all of sports.

Olympics too? Or maybe even both track and Xc at oympics. More people can qualify. XC is one of the most popular sports at many High schools by numbers. It needs to be in olympics long before tag football.

3 months ago 04/08/2024 2:16pm EDT

re: bigmig19

Yep definitely Olympics too. An Olympic XC would be epic.

Standalone events like The Ten, or Night of the 10,000m PBs could continue - as ways to qualify for the XC. Basically the reverse of what happens now - a few slots in the XC would be available for people with epic track times.

We need to accept reality that a 23 minute jog followed by a 4 minute burn-up is just too boring.

This would both invigorate XC and get rid of something terrible.

PS I'm a club runner in the UK which has a thriving XC circuit - having it as a World Champs event would draw in a lot of those casual runners into the track event - most completely ignore it atm.

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3 months ago 04/08/2024 2:18pm EDT

re: bigmig19

PS not sure about numbers - I'm pretty agnostic. I think you'd probably have to limit Olympics to 3, as in the Marathon. But for World Champs perhaps you could open it up (for eg maybe automatically giving the 5k qualifiers an entry if they want it).

3 months ago 04/08/2024 2:33pm EDT

re: icrlp05

I like this idea. On a related note, I think it's dumb to use World XC races as qualifiers for the 10,000 meters on the track.

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