Groundbreaking accomplishment by USATF. Congratulations to Max Siegel for pulling this off for our sport.
https://www.usatf.org/news/2021/usatf-announces-2021-journey-to-gold-tokyo-outdoor
Groundbreaking accomplishment by USATF. Congratulations to Max Siegel for pulling this off for our sport.
https://www.usatf.org/news/2021/usatf-announces-2021-journey-to-gold-tokyo-outdoor
Saw this release. Very excited to see USATF step up to help the sport and the athletes. I don't see other NGB's or other federations making this kind of commitment. Although the release was void of a lot of details, I wonder how many of these events will be IAAF label events. With a prize structure of a million dollars, I would assume the answer is yes.
Skipper Hops wrote:
Saw this release. Very excited to see USATF step up to help the sport and the athletes. I don't see other NGB's or other federations making this kind of commitment. Although the release was void of a lot of details, I wonder how many of these events will be IAAF label events. With a prize structure of a million dollars, I would assume the answer is yes.
For the time being, the WA Label is fine but WA is has an extremely high overhead requirement that has hampered the sport.
This is what I'm talking about. I've been very vocal about him earning a million dollar salary and not putting on the meets.
So I gotta admit I love this.
They are marketing the sport as a pro event and making it sound rich (even if in reality $1 million is chump change for other sports). They clearly recognize the that 1 million is A LOT more symobollically than 999,999. I love this.
Why so many meets @ Texas? Is the weather nicer in May down there?
rojo wrote:
This is what I'm talking about. I've been very vocal about him earning a million dollar salary and not putting on the meets.
So I gotta admit I love this.
They are marketing the sport as a pro event and making it sound rich (even if in reality $1 million is chump change for other sports). They clearly recognize the that 1 million is A LOT more symobollically than 999,999. I love this.
This sounds a bit like Rojo Bot but I agree this might be worth trying. Why not?
Run Fan wrote:
Why so many meets @ Texas? Is the weather nicer in May down there?
Costs are very cheap in Texas. Sure, we want all meets in California, the world's Olympics Medal machine that cranks out superstars track and field legends like a Hyundai factory, with beaches, sun, etc. But Don't forget Texas. Texas has great athletes who are the foundation of our sport.
Max Sigel is the GOAT wrote:
Run Fan wrote:
Why so many meets @ Texas? Is the weather nicer in May down there?
Costs are very cheap in Texas. Sure, we want all meets in California, the world's Olympics Medal machine that cranks out superstars track and field legends like a Hyundai factory, with beaches, sun, etc. But Don't forget Texas. Texas has great athletes who are the foundation of our sport.
USATF paid to put a track in at Prairie View A&M in 2016. Prairie View was the site of the Team USA holding camp, except nobody went. This is USATF getting ROI and making athletes travel to an out the way location for power/speed competition.
One million dollars divided by 11 meets, further divided by how many events in each meet?
Further divided by how many athletes in these events.
malmo wrote:
One million dollars divided by 11 meets, further divided by how many events in each meet?
TBD wrote:
USATF paid to put a track in at Prairie View A&M in 2016.
No they didn't. The new track was part of a huge revamp of athletic facilities paid for by student fees and donors.
Show Texas some Love.
Run Fan wrote:
Why so many meets @ Texas? Is the weather nicer in May down there?
Warm weather is better for sprinters. That's why.