Another step closer to the death/irrelevance of track and field. Road racing and the marathon specifically will soon be the only real recognized running sport of note in the country.
As public schools start dropping all non-revenue producing sports, kids will get the first and only experience with running through road racing and grow up wanting to be Ryan Halls and Kara Gouchers rather than Nick Symmonds and LoLo Jones.
Professionally track is shrinking and very limited in opportunities to compete. Road racing and marathoning are growing in opportunities and popularity professionally and can be found in quantity anywhere in the world.
Will not be long before the Diamond League falls apart and their become organized world road racing tours.
Ian Stewart - Nick Symmonds -LoLo Jones -thanks for helping move this process along.