Meeting with Seb Coe

Great list of suggestions. I agree with most of them except No.'s

8) I wouldn't remove the TJ or 10k;

12) The 1500 is too iconic now.

I know you mean 1609.34M but you didn't say it. 1600 might be the most awkward number ever. It's like comparing 0-60 mph times to 0-100kmph times. They're not the same thing. If you want the mile say the mile, otherwise go for 1,599M

why wrote:

I know you mean 1609.34M but you didn't say it. 1600 might be the most awkward number ever. It's like comparing 0-60 mph times to 0-100kmph times. They're not the same thing. If you want the mile say the mile, otherwise go for 1,599M

no, I meant 1600 because it is the most logical distance.

Deanouk wrote:

Great list of suggestions. I agree with most of them except No.'s

8) I wouldn't remove the TJ or 10k;

12) The 1500 is too iconic now.

As a track purist, I enjoy watching the TJ and 10k, but the public does not and in also in order to add events, some will have to go.

Nowhere in there were you bribing Coe or paying the IAAF, so thanks for stopping by but Coe's got money to make and bribes to take.

TrackCoach wrote:

19. Reduce the men's World Cross to 10k -or bring back the short course -or create relay with each runner running 2k

One down:

Though I'd love to see a 2k relay event at World XC as well

#14 really cracked me up. Well done!

I think cross country should be added to the summer Olympics and should be held when swimming is going on, which is before track and field usually begins. And it should be at a distance where 1500 and 10k guys can both be competitive. I think 4k would be good.

Also, make cross country an annual event again. It was that way for decades. It is already so marginalized professionally. Having it as a biannual event isn't helping. There are 5 world/olympic track championships in a 4 year period, but only 2 world cross country championships in that same period now. It should be annual.

TrackCoach wrote:

Deanouk wrote:

Great list of suggestions. I agree with most of them except No.'s

8) I wouldn't remove the TJ or 10k;

12) The 1500 is too iconic now.

As a track purist, I enjoy watching the TJ and 10k, but the public does not and in also in order to add events, some will have to go.

How come they will watch a marathon for 5 hours but not a track race of under half an hour

1600m is for HS kids in America only nobody else runs it or ever will

You have def provided some solid and sensible suggestions but I have to agree with others re the 1600m. The 1500m has become an iconic event and is run far more often than the mile or indeed the 1600 which I had never even heard of as a race until I started reading this site. So for me, it's either stick with the 1500m or replace it with the mile.

I also disagree with point 14. Sure, it's sometimes frustrating watching talented runners jog like HS kids at a major event but this is the reality of top level, championship racing which will always favour a kicker. In any case, your 10% rule doesn't really help much since all that would happen is a burst at the start followed by a settling down into the same old slow pace. It's up to front running athletes to change their tactics and be more aggressive.

Athletics has some crazy rules as it is but imagine a 10K where after the first 1K an overweight bloke walks onto the track with a clipboard and orders the athletes back to the starting line due to some crazy rule about 10% of an A standard. This would rightly lead to the farcical spectacle of the offical being stampeded over and told to fuc* right off.

Definitely not for getting rid of the 10000m, one of the great track events. If people with short attention spans don't want to watch it tough.

Nor would I scrap the 1500, and good luck talking the double Olympic champion at it into that!

I don't know enough about birth registration around the world to know how workable the rule about age group entrants is. Kenya it appears to be mandatory and required to get a passport from what I can see, but it does carry a fee. Is it possible for someone in any country to get on an international flight without a passport based on a birth cert? No idea.

Great list of changes, except for #8. Come on, Seb, let's do it.

YOU ARE FIRED.

didn't notice the 1600m suggestion. I'd change that to the mile.

hold your horses.

everybody focuses on rule changes.

the eye is not on the 8 ball.

they are not following the rules now.

so how about integrity first, then make the new rule set?

i mean, the proposal is to throw more money at testing, but the latest scandal involves, bribery and test results were thrown in the toilet. so if they had double the testing, that is twice the money wasted.

so more money is not a solution. in fact, that will make things worse.

like a dope addict, needs more money.

more rules is not a solution, because the current lot break the rules.

so, no.no.no.no.

you have to clean house. completely.

then.

don't make a thousand rules that will cost a mint to enforce.

the new "white hat" guys need to make a minimal but effective rule set, whatever they are. focus on practical, and simple.

it is bye bye coe and bye bye nike.

those dirty rotten scoundrels.

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TrackCoach wrote:

7. Remove all ‘highly-highly suspicious’ Doping, Age and Gender issue results from the record books

How would you do this? Who gets to decide?

Jack Straw wrote:

TrackCoach wrote:

7. Remove all ‘highly-highly suspicious’ Doping, Age and Gender issue results from the record books

How would you do this? Who gets to decide?

IAAF of course. They already have some villains lined up. Bad Russia! Bad East Germany! Kenyans, Americans, and Brits are all clean.

Easy!

Where's ventolin^3?

Lost all credibility at #12.

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