Katir fan wrote:
This is such a profoundly stupid idea that I am not going to bother arguing against it. Some real ways to make World XC important:
1) Big prize money
2) Big advertising directed towards high school athletes including fun interviews with the top runners and footage of them training and having fun in their home towns
3) Make sure that the hosts are going to go all-out to produce an exciting, spectator-friendly event that looks cool both in person and on TV... see Aurhus 2019
4) Individual countries supporting their top runners with lucrative appearance fees and hefty bonuses for performing well as a team or individually
5) Find a rich superfan like Rex Sinquefield in chess to support cross country with his own money without expecting a profit... Lord Coe is a clown
6) Put cross country back in the Olympics
All we need is a money printer and maybe some charity.
For the other recommendations, just putting something TV doesn’t mean anyone is going to watch it.