Update: Grand Slam Track LA Cancelled

For real. How did OP possibly know this LOL.

Well, I am not surprised.

A couple days ago I looked at the website to see what the tickets costs and you were not able to access that information without giving away your email.

If an email was sent to racers then that's 48 people all with agents, friends, friends of friends etc. Hardly the most secure way to keep something secret.

It's barely 9:00 on the East coast. The "journalists" here won't wake until close to noon. By then, the thread will have 150 posts. They will then start a new thread with "Breaking News!" about the potential cancellation and delete this thread to make it look like they had a clue.

Yes, killed off by Grant Fisher and Mary Moraa jogging their events.

Michael Johnson calls emergency meeting over future of Grand Slam Track

Olympic champion launched the league this year but athletes have been summoned to an ominous Zoom call amid concerns over lack of sponsorship and poor ticket sales

How do you know this thread wasn't started by a journalist who wasn't quite sure of their sourcing or was afraid to piss of MJ/GST?

Try Austin, SLO, Phoenix, Fresno. In L.A. 250,000 run on the beach everyday for FREE and have never had any interest in sitting down and watching some one else do the running.

They should vote out Josh Kerr, he sabotaged comms then vented

You're sidestepping the main point, which is that running stories are often revealed on this message board before any journalist has published it. It's happened many times over the years. Whether a journalist started the thread or not is irrelevant.

In retrospect, I think GST would have been better off to pick a couple of venues for their first season and have a multiple meets at each. Establishing a following by having, say, 3 meets at Franklin Field and another 2-3 meets at a second venue before trying to grow the market right off the bat may be a more sustainable strategy.

A brand new music group doesn't start off with a world tour. They play the same couple bars week after week until they've built enough following and generated enough buzz to expand their sphere.

GST is starting off with a world tour before they've established themselves.

Not true today.

when you go to the website today, tickets can be purchased. When you go to checkout yes your email information is necessary.

I think people are over reacting and hypothesizing the worst scenarios.

Don't know if you're saying that to agree or not, but it's really weird that some people have criticized the men's distance events for going slow. Isn't that the point of pacemakers--to make the race go fast? And by not having the pacemakers, you're prioritizing tactical racing, which in practice means sit-and-kick. Which is still great racing! But it's like people were expecting Ezekiel Kemboi or John Ngugi to show up and throw in a bunch of crazy surges, and when that didn't happen, it's the athletes' fault for some reason.

I think such things are called "leaks". 😂

(So - who IS the OP?)

'Championship racing' is only good when it's, erm, a championship (i.e. it matters).

It could potentially work with a single race format with large money on the line, you could see more risks taken. The doubling format though is what neuters it, it makes sit and kick inevitable.