Why is NACAC so bad

Its becoming clearer that the North American model of athletics just isn't working very well compared to Europe and the rest of the world. No-one here (Europe) has even heard of NACAC or NCAA or whatever its called and can't understand the obsession adult men have with teenager schoolchildrens' athletics performance. The winning time in the 5000m you give is a decent club winning time in a routine, non-elite race here.
The US alone has a population of 330 million and its regularly outdone by Scotland (population 5.4 million) and Norway (population also 5.4 million) in athletics in recent years. Your system doesn't work. Your training is far too harsh on young athletes and doesn't build up gradually enough with high mileage in particular, so destroys many. Even your high quality athletes such as Sydney McGloughlin are clearly so fragile that they barely race. Obviously her training is good enough and hers is a technical event, but other athletes really seem to be suffering from the lack of consistent high level competition that European athletes benefit from in bringing their performances up that extra bit. They are not afraid of competition in distance races.
Is this NACAC thing compulsory or something? I cannot understand why any top class athlete would choose to run it, rather than the remaining Diamond League meetings this season. It can't be the travel - European athletes managed to travel to Eugene and do multiple track event then do more multiple championships afterwards.

So this was the championships that mary cain fans have been talking about saying she won gold so she's a "WORLD CLASS RUNNER" how embarrassing

Two American women woul have won European 800 meters.

No high schooler could beat Kincaid.

Cant run every race at 50 f and calm sea level conditions, you win NACAC your qualified for worlds, so basically that 14:50 is good for a 13:07.

Why is it surprising that the meet is poorly attended. Americans don't care about it, with some exceptions (Ajee, the BTC boys).

The only thread about the meet prior to the start of the meet was about the BTC guys running in it.

Canada (and Jamaica) had World's and Commonwealths before it in the pecking order. Although both Sherica Jackson and Shaunae Miller-Uibo competed here.

The Brojos had numerous reports about the Euro meet before that meet even started, yet nothing about NACAC, even though it was an American participation meet, with NO Americans at Euro's. So go figure why the meet doesn't attract top American talent - seems that neither the Press (LR) or USATF really cares about the meet. That it followed World's in Eugene didn't help either, but the DL schedule had little to do with it - there are no DL meets during this period because of these area meets (NACAC and Euro's).

If you look at some of the other winning times, you'll see that that's just a dumb statement. The winning time in the women's 400m, the 100m, the 800m, the men's 110mH were all won in times faster than the European championships. Plus, a large proportion of the medalists at the European championships wouldn't be at the level they're at if it wasn't the training they had at NCAAs, Mario Garcia, Jorinde van Klinken, Filip Mihaljevic, Katerina Stefanidi, Nicole Yeargin, Barbora Spotakova, Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake, Lizzie Bird, Mykolas Alekna. Plus, there's other athletes who train in the US like Jake Heyward and Konstanze Klosterhalfen.

Lizzie Bird trains in the states? With who?

What a hot garbage take. Our athlete development model isn’t working well? Tell that to our record-breaking number of medalists at Eugene. You’re just jealous because your best young star, Bol, will always play second fiddle to McLaughlin.

This looks like a fun meet + an "easy" international medal to pick up if I was an American athlete. Wish there was better footage. Looks like some guy holding a camcorder.

Can't tell if this is a troll or jealousy induced histrionics. Did you watch the WC's? And JI has been the talk of European athletics since he was one of the "teenager schoolchildren."

No high schooler would have won that race.

You are completely clueless.The US won more medals at this year's World Championships than any other country in history.

I didn't say that she trains in the states. I said she was a collegiate athlete. She went to Princeton. The last part of my post was about non-collegiate athletes who do train in the states.

Nothing better illustrates the rock-bottom condition of modern American men's distance running than a "championship" featuring a dozen alleged professionals trotting 5 minute miles, in the hopes of being the one guy who finishes 2nd to Woody Kincaid. They ran a terrible time in a terrible race that bored even the handful of people who pay attention to American distance running, all the while neither attempting seriously to win the race, nor running the type of pace that would prepare them for international competition.

Just awful. I would rather watch a Dutch boys' 5k championship race than watch a professional American's men's race at that distance (or 10k), unless Grant Fisher or Paul Chelimo were present.

It isn't wildcard qualification, it is world standard "on the condition that there is no better entry by world ranking of another athlete from the same area in the same event."

So if you win NACAC *and* are the highest ranked North American in your event you do not need to run standard (not wildcard entry).

So Kincaid's win in the 5000 is worth squat because he is ranked behind Fisher and Ahmed in the 5000. McGorty winning the 10000m likewise. You get good bonus points for the rankings, though a 14:50 is likely such a low results score it winds up being a near moot point for Woody.

Only 3 countries in the continent and associated islands take distance running seriously - Canada, Mexico, and the US. Arguably, you could get a competitive Canada vs USA distance race - but most athletes who could be in it would rather race in Oregon or California than in NACAC because conditions for a fast time are more likely. Sprints may be competitive though.

Why have championships at all and instead we can just award medals on the basis of who runs the fastest times each year? Thats so basically illogical that the gap is too big to start filling it with any sense.

Can't you even use more syllables in your insults? "Dumb" - seriously, are you 12 years old?

I will repeat. You have got 337 million people in the US and by your own admission, have to import athletes from the rest of the world to fill your college programmes. Why aren't you producing more gold medallists, particularly in middle distance and long distance running events?

Other countries have potential top class athletes poached by other sports too...

American athletes don't care about distance running. They like the flashiness and glamor of other sports that actually pay well. I made that point about the American collegiate system being good because so many of the best athletes go through it and become top class athletes whilst competing and training there. It's weird that you say America doesn't pick up a lot of gold medals when, if I remember correctly, we literally on top of the medal table at the World Championships *literally* a couple of weeks ago.