Update: Grand Slam Track LA Cancelled

You have a weird definition of “crazy”. Pretty sure the country has way bigger issues to worry about than some failed track league going on. Wake up.

Look at the crowd in Oslo. Merber should have been on the phone with them all-year long trying to make it happen. It should've been Oslo-LA-Boston-Monaco

This was very obvious from the start, it was just a cash grab

People are talking about how they needed events in Europe to be successful, but GST would never become popular here when it doesn't have field events, doesn't have the biggest European stars and has the weird doubling gimmicks.

Poor guy though. He spent 30 years dreaming it up. Timing was a mistake, going up against Diamond League meets. And probably should have given some free tickets to school children or seniors to fill the crowd up a bit.

someone grabbed cash from this?

With reports of athletes not getting their payouts, I’m not convinced anyone (maybe the stadium owners?) actually made any money on this.

Race payments should be made based on the closeness to the current world record for the event. If you run 14:20 5k, you get paid, but a maximum of say $5000. You run 12:50, $20000.

One day event.

Organise a mass participation road event the day before. 5k is a good distance.

Get rid of the hurdles. One sprint event. One middle distance event. One longer event. Women's high jump. Men's pole vault.

I see people keep saying this, but that doesn't explain why Diamond League is pretty huge. Its cope. "GST failed because noone likes track anyways". No.

Why women's HJ and men's PV? People would be partial to seeing American stars, and we have nobody in the HJ. Vashti Cunningham is clearly our best and is only #29 all-time.

In the PV, we have Sandi Morris all-time #4, Katie Moon #5, Amanda Moll #8, and Bridget Williams #20. Morris has Olympic silver, 3x World Outdoor silver, 2x World Indoor gold and 1x silver. Moon has Olympic gold and silver, 2x World Outdoor gold, and World Indoor silver and bronze.

They are going to get sued.

These athletes planned their seasons around this, did not take other opportunities to earn money and get standards such as DL and are now left to figure out the rest of their seasons.

I don't know what was in their contracts but I'm pretty sure there was no clause that said they can cancel whenever they want, for any reason, without recourse. Any agent that would allow their athletes to sign such a contract should be tarred and feathered. I don't know which athlete has the cojones to file but I hope someone does. My bet would be Bednarek, who would have a strong case. I also purchased tickets so I better get a full refund promptly, I don't want to hear 6 weeks or any of that BS or I'll be the one filing the suit. Luckily my hotel room is refundable.

This...running is recreational - this morning on my run I didn't care whether Josh Kerr or Cole Hocker wins the next GST 1500 (especially in 3:3x, which is so far off a top-notch pace that who cares how fast you kicked the last 200 or 400m). As an actual hobbyjogger, I pretty much care about whether I ran the same route faster, and more comfortably, than yesterday (or whenever the last time it was that I ran the same course). This isn't to say that racing isn't exciting, but there have to be all the major contenders involved and they need to be giving their best in that particular race - therefore, for me the he WCs and Olympics are enough. For everything else, breaking time barriers and expanding the limits of human physiology (aee my aforementioned personal experience) is what I want - based upon my readings this is the Diamond League.

wrong thread

wrong thread again i give up

Keely? You mean Femke

Where the stands full or close to selling out?

Yes because you can't continually spend money with no money coming in (indefinitely). And they weren't exactly getting paid big bucks by the CW for broadcast rights.

Track is great, but in terms of money, it is closer to rowing than it is to tennis in terms of money.

Take a trip to DTLA, the kids may want to see how LA celebrates deportations of illegal aliens. Bring your own spray paint!

I’ve lived in LA for 49 years. With the exception of the Olympics, every single track I’ve gone has been poorly attended.