Have the men announced theirs yet? I'm told the women came up with times without any input from coaches, athletes or LDR reps. This was always discussed in an open forum and voted on. What happened to that process?
Have the men fallen to the same process?
Anybody have any idea what's going on? How can teh communication from within LDR be any worse?
I'm hearing the same thing. It is sad that the LDR division is looking for ways to increase participation and attendance at the annual meeting and yet they go out of their way to exclude people from the process. It has gotten to the point where the only thing that happens at the annual meeting is pats on the back and the limited disemination of information. The info should be available on a web site, making attendance at the meeting useless. The way to increase participation is to increase the democratic process.
One major issue is that the athletes themselves don't care enough to get involved. Makes Pre roll over in his grave and Don Kardong cringe in horror.
kardong, hehe...
what did the women decide?
Bumpo
All of the information regarding Site Selection for the 2008 USA Olympic Marathon Trials is being released officially this week by the USATF National Office.
The standards will be released with those documents. Also the process and timetable for site selection will be announced.
No big surprises. Standards, at this stage, will be very similar to 2004. There are two sets of standards - the IAAF standards for qualifying for the Olympic Games (these standards 'A' and 'B' have been subject to change in the past by IAAF. Then there are the USATF qualifying standards for the Trials - again 'A' and 'B' standards - similar to the last time.
So be patient a little bit longer and you will have all the information you need regarding standards, qualifying window, and process.