What is needed is to build an internationally credited facility along the North East Corridor. For those who don't know, The North East Corridor stretches from Boston to Washington DC.
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What is needed is to build an internationally credited facility along the North East Corridor. For those who don't know, The North East Corridor stretches from Boston to Washington DC.
What purpose would that serve? There still wouldn't be anywhere close to 40,000 or 50,000 spectators like what some of the Diamond League meets in Europe get.
What is needed is to build an internationally credited facility along the North East Corridor. For those who don't know, The North East Corridor stretches from Boston to Washington DC.
What purpose would that serve? There still wouldn't be anywhere close to 40,000 or 50,000 spectators like what some of the Diamond League meets in Europe get.
You are joking, right? So you think building such a facility in an area with a catchment of over 60 million people, plus ease of travel and a tourist infrastructure to the entire planet would not be able to get 40,000 people? Well with people like you, no wonder it keeps being placed in that podunk dump of Eugene.
What purpose would that serve? There still wouldn't be anywhere close to 40,000 or 50,000 spectators like what some of the Diamond League meets in Europe get.
So you think building such a facility in an area with a catchment of over 60 million people, plus ease of travel and a tourist infrastructure to the entire planet would not be able to get 40,000 people?
I'm smart and realistic. You just have a pie in the sky idea that has no basis in reality whatsoever.
So you think building such a facility in an area with a catchment of over 60 million people, plus ease of travel and a tourist infrastructure to the entire planet would not be able to get 40,000 people?
I'm smart and realistic. You just have a pie in the sky idea that has no basis in reality whatsoever.
If such a thing existed, I'd go to every usa champs / DL meet it hosted. I've yet to be to a meet in eugene.
Franklin Field hosted the 1980 free Olympics Track & Field events as well as a small event each year called Penn Relays, and is walking distance to the train station with service to NYC, DC & Boston. What does it lack?
Franklin Field hosted the 1980 free Olympics Track & Field events as well as a small event each year called Penn Relays, and is walking distance to the train station with service to NYC, DC & Boston. What does it lack?
I'm smart and realistic. You just have a pie in the sky idea that has no basis in reality whatsoever.
If such a thing existed, I'd go to every usa champs / DL meet it hosted. I've yet to be to a meet in eugene.
Exactly. Me and several of my friends would do the same. For sake of transparency: we all live on the East Coast. All 6 of us went to Budapest and had a fantastic time. Only one of us went to Eugene - and it wasn't me. And he complained after. While in Budapest, I met several people who had nothing good to say about their visit to Worlds in Eugene.
Franklin Field hosted the 1980 free Olympics Track & Field events as well as a small event each year called Penn Relays, and is walking distance to the train station with service to NYC, DC & Boston. What does it lack?
The facilities would need to be upgraded as the track is oddly configured. But Nike can spend some of it's billions to do so as a jv with the area. It would be money well spent.
So you think building such a facility in an area with a catchment of over 60 million people, plus ease of travel and a tourist infrastructure to the entire planet would not be able to get 40,000 people?
I'm smart and realistic. You just have a pie in the sky idea that has no basis in reality whatsoever.
Neither smart nor realistic from where I'm typing. A modicum of thinking should scream this to you.
I haven't followed track for super long so this might be a dumb question....Why do they have to hold the trials in late June/early July? Like couldn't they, in theory, hold it in May? This would open up a ton of other sites that wouldn't be too hot/humid for places like Philly, Boston, NYC to bid on. If you held it in early May, places like Austin/Jacksonville/even Baton Rogue to a degree would be open.
That would pretty much eliminate NCAA athletes from competing. They need to hold it after NCAA champs.
I haven't followed track for super long so this might be a dumb question....Why do they have to hold the trials in late June/early July? Like couldn't they, in theory, hold it in May? This would open up a ton of other sites that wouldn't be too hot/humid for places like Philly, Boston, NYC to bid on. If you held it in early May, places like Austin/Jacksonville/even Baton Rogue to a degree would be open.
That would pretty much eliminate NCAA athletes from competing. They need to hold it after NCAA champs.
Also schools are still in session so families could not attend if it were held in May.
The sad part is that IUPUI can not afford to keep their stadium up to Trials level standards. Couldn't USATF become a partner in upgrading that facility? Indianapolis would be a great central facility in a large city with the airport in town. Of course we know the answer. Once again college football is expected to pay the bills.
Wasn't Indianapolis holding the TAC championships for a number of years? Seems like a more centrally located city. And didn't Indy want to be known at the 'amateur sports capital' hosting other non-NFL/NBA/etc events. Aren't many NGOs headquartered there?
I haven't followed track for super long so this might be a dumb question....Why do they have to hold the trials in late June/early July? Like couldn't they, in theory, hold it in May? This would open up a ton of other sites that wouldn't be too hot/humid for places like Philly, Boston, NYC to bid on. If you held it in early May, places like Austin/Jacksonville/even Baton Rogue to a degree would be open.
That would pretty much eliminate NCAA athletes from competing. They need to hold it after NCAA champs.
And take a wild guess where the NCAA Championships are being held for the next 50 or so years...
I'm smart and realistic. You just have a pie in the sky idea that has no basis in reality whatsoever.
If such a thing existed, I'd go to every usa champs / DL meet it hosted.
Let's look at this logically. There used to be a Diamond League meet in New York City. But it's no longer there because there weren't enough fans interested in going.
Millrose Games is one of the most famous indoor meets in the world. But it left Madison Square Garden because not enough people wanted to go. So it had to move to the Armory, which only holds a few thousand spectators.
Yet some of you delusional people think that 40,000+ people will show up to a meet on the East Coast if only the stadium was a little fancier or the seats were slightly bigger? You have no idea what you're talking about.
Track and field is simply not the big sport that it was in the United States 50 or 60 years ago. Those days are gone. Some of you obviously have a hard time accepting that.
Why doesn’t UC Berkeley host big track meets anymore? Great facility, 22,000 seat stadium, nearby warmup track, perfect weather (they usually don’t get the fog that envelops SF), major metro with lots of track fans, hotels, public transit, multiple large airports.
Stanford also has room at their track site to build a bigger stadium, someone would have to chip in a bunch of money though. UCLA has a nice track and 12,000 seat stadium that could be expanded with temporary bleachers on the back straight.
Parking at Matthew Knight Arena and Mill Race Garage at reasonable prices. Street parking near campus for free - just need to be cognizant of time limits. Free parking at Autzen Stadium/PK Park complex with free shuttle buses to Hayward. Uber/Lyft rides from Springfield hotel cluster are less than $15 each way. Many Air BnB/VRBO hosts offered rides to and from the stadium during Worlds for their renters. Hotels shuttled athletes and fans in their vans.
Enough with the whining!
Bravo! I don't get the complaints at all. I've never once had a hard time parking a few blocks away from the stadium. People need to bring some walking shoes and get there at a reasonable time or look into the options you listed.
Franklin Field hosted the 1980 free Olympics Track & Field events as well as a small event each year called Penn Relays, and is walking distance to the train station with service to NYC, DC & Boston. What does it lack?
Nike. The meet will be wherever Nike wants it to be (read: Eugene).
This is what I want to know. We know Mt. SAC bid in 2020 because they initially were awarded the Trials before USATF yanked them away. I haven't heard of anyone else who bid in '24 apart from Eugene. Anyone know anything?
Why wouldn't USATF do more to encourage or support more bids? If USATF is just sitting around passively taking bids, that is unacceptable to me.
I'll ask the question differently rather than a direct answer: Why wouldn't Nike subsidiary USATF encourage other bids that Nike does not own?
I went to the OTs in 2004 Sacramento and a few masters meets. Easy flight to the city (a little outside of town). It has a train system so I stayed a few miles East and could walk from hotel to train, train to stadium or downtown and walk all of it. Being a medium sized city, hotels were plentiful and cheap even with the event in progress. LA will have rail access to most venues by 2028. Eugene is never going to have good airport access, plentiful hotels, or public transportation.
But again, what's in it for Nike to have it in Sacramento, LA, Chicago, NYC or any other spectator friendly place?
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