World Athletics says they have spent "an immense amount of effort and resource" so teams "will have a safe bubble" at World Half

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    rojo

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    3 years ago 09/24/2020 11:34pm EDT

    Check this quote out from World Athletics head Jon Ridgeon. Can someone please get Max Siegel to change his mind? It looks like USATF raised the white flag too early.

    Jon Ridgeon said:

    “Our focus is on delivering our first world championships since Doha in a successful and safe way,”

    "Led by Dr Stéphane Bermon, our head of health and science at World Athletics, we are putting an immense amount of effort and resource into making sure the teams will have a safe bubble to exist in when they are Gdynia after having been tested beforehand and on arrival."

    “I think it will be a stunning event because the leading athletes have great enthusiasm to compete and there are strong entry numbers. The Polish government are also being very helpful to make sure athletes from all over the world can access the country."

    https://www.athleticsweekly.com/athletics-news/gdynia-ready-rise-challenge-1039933910/
  • registered

    So do you run, like, marathons?

    Member since 07/16/2019.

    117 posts. Last post 3 years ago.
    3 years ago 09/25/2020 12:32am EDT
    re: rojo

    rojo wrote:

    It looks like USATF raised the white flag too early.

    The white flag should have never been raised regardless. It was completely dumb last week, as it is now.

  • travel risk

    Anonymous Poster

    3 years ago 09/25/2020 1:36am EDT
    re: rojo

    They could still get sick while traveling.

  • not this again

    Anonymous Poster

    3 years ago 09/25/2020 1:47am EDT
    re: travel risk

    travel risk wrote:

    They could still get sick while traveling.

    And then what? Your grandma will die? Athletes should choose for themselves if they want to accept the negligible risk of plane crashes or covid.

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    Runner10287

    Member since 10/19/2017.

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    3 years ago 09/26/2020 7:07am EDT
    re: travel risk

    travel risk wrote:

    They could still get sick while traveling.

    Athletes always take extreme caution when traveling as the risk of sickness was shears there. Corona simp.

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    3 years ago 09/26/2020 10:47am EDT
    re: rojo

    And you believe them now why??

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    Armstronglivs

    Member since 10/05/2018.

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    3 years ago 09/26/2020 2:53pm EDT
    re: rojo

    rojo wrote:

    Check this quote out from World Athletics head Jon Ridgeon. Can someone please get Max Siegel to change his mind? It looks like USATF raised the white flag too early.

    Jon Ridgeon said:

    “Our focus is on delivering our first world championships since Doha in a successful and safe way,”

    "Led by Dr Stéphane Bermon, our head of health and science at World Athletics, we are putting an immense amount of effort and resource into making sure the teams will have a safe bubble to exist in when they are Gdynia after having been tested beforehand and on arrival."

    “I think it will be a stunning event because the leading athletes have great enthusiasm to compete and there are strong entry numbers. The Polish government are also being very helpful to make sure athletes from all over the world can access the country."

    https://www.athleticsweekly.com/athletics-news/gdynia-ready-rise-challenge-1039933910/

    Perhaps you could explain the scientific basis for suggesting their efforts are misguided?

  • travel risk

    Anonymous Poster

    3 years ago 09/26/2020 3:04pm EDT
    re: not this again

    not this again wrote:

    travel risk wrote:

    They could still get sick while traveling.

    And then what? Your grandma will die? Athletes should choose for themselves if they want to accept the negligible risk of plane crashes or covid.

    They aren’t doing this race on their own buddy. They sign a statement of conditions to represent Team USA, and being a respiratory disease the risk and liability is potentially career ending and falls on the shoulders of USATF.

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