What track events do not interest you at all?

Literally all the field events… I just can’t get into them, I like the track events for the head to head competition and the field events, while they are competing against each other, do not provide that level of excitement because it’s one athlete competing at a time.

Track, 28 years. Running total? 31. I also ran the 200. Clearly it’s not such a “pure” event that anyone thought keeping the 4x200 was necessary.

I only care about running and even in that only 5k and above, even tho i compete in 800/1500.

Dont ask me why, i dont know the answer.

Also i dont care about throwing, jumping and that stuff.

There are two events that are objectively anti the ethos of athletics and are the worst for me to watch - in order below.

The walks. The only event where you are constrained to a crap technique artificially. In every other event you can use whatever strategy you like to get to the finish line, clear the bar, throw the shot, etc. It is the least pure event. Also everyone cheats all the time (Russians with drugs and everyone else with technique) and it's about who gets past the officials. Total BS event.

The triple jump. This is also a dumb artificial event. Why triple? Why not double or quadruple? It is not quite as bad as the walks, but it's woeful and silly.

That's technically not true about the shot. You have to "put" the shot not "throw" the shot which is different

Steeple, 100, both hurdles and 10,000.

Good point! I didn't consider that aspect but still you can use any technique you want within that - standing, spinning, slide, etc.

When you say "track events" does that include the field or multis?

I like all the running events. I have no real interest in the hammer. Discus is close. (Yet shot put I will watch). triple jump is not all that interesting to me either.

Middle school hurdles...painful

That is true for every women's running event. Compare the times.

The problem with place is how do you do it in events run in lanes? If I win the slow flight I would get as many points as the winner of the fastest flight and more points than a person who ran much faster.

The points thing is fine.

Triple Jump.

Looks ridiculous.

With the dislike for most of the events a few people on here have, sounds like they agree with a former Texas AD who said “the only sport worse than track is field.”

It seems like the Triple Jump and the Walks are hands down the most disliked events.

I agree. But it doesn't surprise me. A track meet is a collection of disconnected events that often seem totally unrelated to each other. If you like seeing how far people can throw stuff there is no real reason you should like or dislike seeing people hurdle or pole vault. Unless you're a fairly serious track geek if you're watching a meet you probably spend most of it watching events you don't care about while waiting for the ones you do.

Some of us enjoy all of them, at least enough not to want them to be removed from a championship program.

Yes. Some enjoy all of them and I think a lot of people wouldn't want an event removed from championship meets just because they don't care about them. I have no interest in sprints but I'd never want them removed from any meets.

I literally care about two things:

1. 800m, 1500m, 5k

2. All the absolutely smoking girls in every event. All the different female body types from every country on earth.

Race walking and the 4x400 mixed relay should be removed but agree the rest should stay.