2021 USATF Indoor Championships cancelled

Ncaa is having their meet simply because politically they can't cancel it while still playing basketball.

Power 5s will complete. But I bet some coaches and athletes wished they weren't flying and staying in hotels and competing in a sardine can. Smaller schools will save money by not competing. Others will find it hard to find a meet that will accept them.

The right thing to do is run xc outside and prepare for outdoor outside. But the ncaa can't afford to not have the ncaa basketball tournament.

USATF doesn’t hold or host meets. They sanction meets that are hosted by LOC’s. For the past 10 months USATF has stayed as far as possible from any true involvement in competitive opportunities for athletes.

Hopefully this lack of meaningful effort and chance to learn on the go does not work against them when (if) it comes time to stage the Olympic Trials this summer and their active participation is required.

What's the likelihood of a 2021 Olympic trials? Or even a 2022 World Championship in Oregon?

These cancellation are really frustrating me. It's so easy to get a quick covid test before the competition. The fields at the USATF nationals are quite small in the best of years and this easily can be done. I was just at massive travel basketball tournament and kids from many states were there and parents were in the crowd, yet the governing body of our sport can' run a national championships?

for goodness sake NCAA wrestling starts next week and the usatf won't let some guys round around a track!

I think it says a lot about the state of our sport and the USATF that this thread has 6 posts, now 7.

Wish this were a permanent move

Troljo wrote:

What's the likelihood of a 2021 Olympic trials? Or even a 2022 World Championship in Oregon?

The Trials will happen if the Olympics are happening, but they will likely have to limit spectators, which is a huge loss for the LOC and the city. The new stadium is enormous though, it seems like we ought to be able to fit a few thousand in there safely. World Champs should be fine, unless we run into issues with the vaccine wearing off super fast or something.

As far as indoor NCAAs goes, I'll believe it when I see it.

I am guessing USATF pulled out in part because they risk losing a huge amount of money if the meet is canceled at the last minute. That is less of a risk when the meet is being hosted at your own facility.

There is no World Indoors and it is an Olympic year, even if there was no pandemic the fields would have been anemic in most events anyway. Now with a pandemic raging, even more of the top athletes would have skipped the meet.

But why cancel USA Cross Country? There must be some reasons, but I haven't heard them.

Mickey Spillane wrote:

But why cancel USA Cross Country? There must be some reasons, but I haven't heard them.

They should just start outdoor track early. Race in the deep south.

They should cancel the USATF indoor meet.

The NCAA should also cancel wrestling as well as the indoor meet.

Wait for the Spring and hopefully we will have an outdoor season.

Mickey Spillane wrote:

But why cancel USA Cross Country? There must be some reasons, but I haven't heard them.

usa xc was scheduled for San Diego. In California all events are being cancelled, no matter how small, no matter how socially distant. It doesn't matter that the events are being held in a socially distant manner, or could be, officials are freaking out and cancelling everything. At the same time, beaches are packed and supposedly the state is not that bad off from lost revenue - tourism is happening, people are coming, just not for events. It seems ridiculous, but that is what is going on in southern California.