We will be recording our normal weekly podcast tonight at 10 pm ET tonight. We've decided to do it live.
Eliud Bekele wrote:
50.32 in that wind is genuinely a good time to be fair to her
Hardly. All of the other 5 women who finished the race were closer to their personal best than Sydney was. And 4 of them were much closer than Sydney. The only one who was nearby Sydney's gap was Peeters, who always gets off to a slow start so the wind advantage on the backstretch didn't really help her.
As a wise man once said, the whole meet was "a pile of old b0ll0cks".
So few events in what, a 2 hour window, did not work AT ALL. Too many gaps, nonsense fillers. Compare that to a DL meet where multiple events are going on at the same time for 2 hours. They could easily have added a SP/DL combo, or a LJ/TJ one if they really wanted to. But MJ chose violence and ditched the field events.
Mediocre hurdlers running mediocre 100m's is not saving the sport. Seeing empty stadiums because original pricing was too high is not saving the sport. Seeing middle distance men jogging because their second event is poor, is not saving the sport. Watching an insane women's 400m race one day, and a crap one the next, is not saving the sport.
The best thing about it was the athletes bonus (although I hate the fact that the winner gets so much more than second place).
I cannot see how this is financially viable unless they have some amazing TV deal. This is certainly going to be a loss-making meet. Let's see how long it lasts in this format because the Billionaire backer decides his money is best spent elsewhere.
i thought it would be good to go for 2 or 3 years, but with the market tanking, they're gonna have trouble funding beyond this season, if they didn't already secure that money.