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Date Posted: 13:21:17 03/18/01 Sun
Author: 56.4
Author Host/IP: u07.ivideon.com / 64.59.128.235
Subject: Re: We need to speak out
In reply to: J B 's message, "Re: We need to speak out" on 11:06:00 03/17/01 Sat

>Track meets are boring. This coming from someone who is obsessed with the sport. There is no way its going to attract an audience when meets last 8 hours and there are huge delays between events. The best meets, that attract the biggest crowds are under 3 hours, that have music, and get the crowds involved. Did i mention track meets are sooo boringggg.
>






Why is it that in the past we did half decent in
>distance stuff, was it because we had the public
>support. I think so, and I think that to get that
>support back we need to start creating rivalries and
>bring those rivalries to make and charge entrance fees
>to watch Salah Eric and Nate go for it in the 8. I
>mean you could make money and if the race was promoted
>enough you could probably draw a couple thousand
>people. This probably sounds hard to believe, but it
>can happen. Put a headline in the paper like "Top
>High Schoolers in the Nation Duke it out for Bragging
>rights in their last race on Home soil." There are a
>lot of track fans and coaches who don't know where the
>meets are and if we start to get fans at the meets we
>could possibly upgrade our facilities and then hold
>some more major meets here in Canada. I honestly
>believe that to get the support that they were all
>talking about in the Olympics, we need to become a
>more dominant nation in runninng. We can't expect
>money if we aren't winning, which is dumb but it's
>true. Maybe the athletes could ask for some money to
>start some training camps in B.C. and have or try to
>have the baest Canadian ahtletes come home and train
>here. The problem is that we don't have the races and
>we aren't going to get worldclass meets unless the
>fans start coming out. So I think that the only way
>we are going to get the support is if the meets are in
>Canada or if we start getting the public support at
>local meets. It's not really up to the athletes to
>bring in the spectators it's the meet directors
>responsability to promote his meet. Did anyone go to
>the Spec Games this year, they were pethetic. We need
>to get the meets promoted by the paper. I mean, if
>the paper is supposed to be centered around the
>communitiy let's see it.
>
>My two cents.

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