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IOC and IAAF set out to ruin elite track and running - 2019
Coyote Mas Loco:
--- Quote from: diablita on March 12, 2019, 05:54:45 PM ---Yes. The choice to run the trials in Atlanta must be a $$ one
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Yes all about the money, they should have run in LA or Houston in March to simulate Tokyo conditions but still give enough time to recover. But Atlanta in Feb was more about the the money.
Atlanta will get burned by this, but what's worse is that this also blows up the entire draw of the Olympic Trials, which is that an every day 2:16 male or 2:36 female marathoner could step in have the race of their life and qualify for the team. Now the teams will be pre-selected by a fast race under perfect conditions at a race months before and probably overseas under relatively little fanfare. And for hundreds of elite, but not world class runners that spend years trying to meet the Trials standards (sort of a holy grail for good post college runners, a BQ - 45 minutes), there might not even be races such in the future.
Fast Eddie:
A lot of these IAAF 2020 Olympic standards are (national records) in some countries. A lot of developing athletes were able to compete at a "B" standard before at some IAAF events.
diablita:
Yes. Super upsetting. What were they thinking?? :confused:
Coyote Mas Loco:
Here is some more perspective from our favorite running website.
http://www.letsrun.com/news/2019/03/rich-kenah-of-atlanta-track-club-on-new-olympic-qualifying-reconsider-the-damage-this-will-do-to-the-olympic-movement/
Coyote Mas Loco:
Upon further review, looks like the qualifying window is only 2019 and beyond. So a bunch of runners ran fast in 2017 and 2018 and all for naught. They will have to find a big A level race (London, NYC, Chicago, Berlin) and place in the top 10 overall, or else run fast time at a non-aided marathon (thus Boston, CIM, and maybe Grandma's will get docked).
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