So I made a half-drunken bar bet last night with a friend who used to run track in college that I could be fast enough to get a World Athletics profile in a track event by the end of 2024. When I took that bet, I thought that...
"Why has World Athletics made it easieir to attain Athlete profile ?" Because it feels good man!
Joking aside, it's not they made it easier. They just want to control us. Where, when and how we run, and then sell our data to big companies so we receive personalised ads of shoes, races with WA labels and accommodation all over the world...
- Relatively easy to expand the system to have more profiles - Increased amounts of electronic results - They can - It's automated so they may as well - Might add social media links in the future
I was wondering about this recently. I looked up some really, really mediocre runners pretty recently and discovered that they have World Athletics profiles. How does this happen? Do people just pay dues and then send in some set of forms or affidavits? A number of the races and performances are dubious at best, and the athletes themselves seem completely undistinguished in every event. ARRS used to do a reasonably good job at this, but I'm not aware that anyone ever took over Ken Young's insanely ambitious (and grossly underappreciated) efforts.
I was wondering about this recently. I looked up some really, really mediocre runners pretty recently and discovered that they have World Athletics profiles. How does this happen? Do people just pay dues and then send in some set of forms or affidavits? A number of the races and performances are dubious at best, and the athletes themselves seem completely undistinguished in every event. ARRS used to do a reasonably good job at this, but I'm not aware that anyone ever took over Ken Young's insanely ambitious (and grossly underappreciated) efforts.
seems like starting 2023 they wiill approve races that have been certified by AIMS when it comes to road racing