Various Questions on the 2010 Track Calendar: Diamond League, 2 US Meets Gone, Berlin & More...

I heard ISTAF Berlin can still pay the same prize money as in previous years. Pretty bad for the US. I don't see it on the USATF website but it appears we only have three pro elite meets in the US now, Pre, Penn USA v World, & Reeb/Adi. They are only short TV events. The fans at Penn & Reeb/Adi are 90% NE USA Jamaican residents. Pre is full of spaced out 60s hippies. PJ is gone, Home Depot is gone.

What we really need is an IAAF WC this year and in every year there is no Summer Olympics. At the international level what other sport take a year off ?

I think the no Championship year is great.

You see more head to head battles and people really going for times instead racing strategically to time their peak.

And some runners experiment with different distances.

Celebrate the uniqueness of the sport.

The Championship years are great too but this gives it a nice mix.

Imagine if we had no NCAA Outdoor T&F championships every year. Would that be good ? No NBA championships every year ? No Super Bowl every year ? It would not be good for business would it.

I think the more important question is why does the Diamond League website have such epic music on their homepage?

www.diamondleague.com

Just run baby

Terrible wrote:

Imagine if we had no NCAA Outdoor T&F championships every year. Would that be good ? No NBA championships every year ? No Super Bowl every year ? It would not be good for business would it.

Big meets still occur. There is XC world championships and world indoor this year. Plus diamond league and other big time meets with all the big time stars. Track and field is not football. And for NCAA, come on moron. Those kids graduate in 4-5 years so you need one every year.

A side note about tickets-

Plan ahead if you are thinking of driving on to the island because it looks like only 188 parking passes are available for New York and still over 4 months away.

$250 tickets are down to 80 but I have no idea how many they issued.

50 buckers >first dozen rows on home straight a pretty much gone with scattered singles.

35> space over looking start of 100&PV area.

less than 50 $75 tix left, all a dozen or more rows back and few ajoining seats.

Eugene tickets will go even faster-

No no no. WXC, WIC, DL are very small teaser / feeler meets. The Summer Olympics and IAAF Outdoor Championships are the two major championships.

They are still solid meets. Having a "major" championship every year makes no sense for this sport. I think most people feel that way.

There's no championships for NCAA football. Never has been for over 100 years. It never hurt NCAA football has it ? They don't care about an NCAA football champ because the NFL Super Bowl is all the kids care about winning.

All sports need a championship every year. Only a retarded chimp thinks otherwise. That's the only way to keep the money rolling in. Everything is society is on a yearly cycle. Not having an IAAF World Outdoor Championships ruins the pace for our sport.

No no no. WXC, WIC, DL are very small teaser / feeler meets. The Summer Olympics and IAAF Outdoor Championships are the two major championships.