Athletics 2022 Discussion Thread

[Jan Linha 590]

Guangzhou World Relays in 2023 have been cancelled (surprise😅😅) This also means the criteria for qualifying for WCH 2023 have changed. Newly, best 8 relays from Eugene automatically qualify to Budapest and remaining 8 according to world ranking. 

 

[Grassmarket 3,409]

1 hour ago, Jan Linha said:

Guangzhou World Relays in 2023 have been cancelled (surprise😅😅) This also means the criteria for qualifying for WCH 2023 have changed. Newly, best 8 relays from Eugene automatically qualify to Budapest and remaining 8 according to world ranking. 

 

And this will be the official welcoming song.

 

 

[dcro 10,210]

The World Athletics Council has decided to postpone the World Athletics Relays Guangzhou 23, scheduled for 13-14 May 2023, until April/May 2025 (exact dates to be confirmed).

👇

— World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) October 31, 2022

 

They should just scratch World Relays for good then if nobody is up to for hosting it except China.

 

Hilarious thing to say that China is up for hosting anything these days, but here we are. I will not even attempt to understand the inner mechanism of Winnie.

 

Edited October 31, 2022 by dcro

[rybak 3,218]

2 hours ago, Jan Linha said:

Guangzhou World Relays in 2023 have been cancelled (surprise😅😅) This also means the criteria for qualifying for WCH 2023 have changed. Newly, best 8 relays from Eugene automatically qualify to Budapest and remaining 8 according to world ranking. 

 

Thats unfair, the event could be moved somwhere else, to Chorzów for example 

 

With this new qualification criteria no relay from Poland isnt actually qualified 

[Jan Linha 590]

22 hours ago, dcro said:

The World Athletics Council has decided to postpone the World Athletics Relays Guangzhou 23, scheduled for 13-14 May 2023, until April/May 2025 (exact dates to be confirmed).

👇

— World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) October 31, 2022

 

They should just scratch World Relays for good then if nobody is up to for hosting it except China.

 

Hilarious thing to say that China is up for hosting anything these days, but here we are. I will not even attempt to understand the inner mechanism of Winnie.

 

is unfortunately just "acting out" that they can host anything. They don't want lose face in front of WA or other federations. Of course they know ahead that it will be trouble, rather impossible. They are just not aware that this behaviour may take away many events from them. Or at least they don't want to admit it. I think instead of their game they should say ahead of time that they won't host it so other hosts can be found. Not only in athletics but in all sports. 

[Grassmarket 3,409]

2 hours ago, Jan Linha said:

is unfortunately just "acting out" that they can host anything. They don't want lose face in front of WA or other federations. Of course they know ahead that it will be trouble, rather impossible. They are just not aware that this behaviour may take away many events from them. Or at least they don't want to admit it. I think instead of their game they should say ahead of time that they won't host it so other hosts can be found. Not only in athletics but in all sports. 

They (or the Wanda Group) are the main sponsors of the DL, so they get a lot more indulgence than other nations would.

[Grassmarket 3,409]

Oh so, NOW the Kenyans want to do something about doping.  India also got some explaining to do.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/africa/63742785

Edited November 24, 2022 by Grassmarket

[Vektor 3,326]

I got an email from World Athletics which says that subscribers to "The Inside Track" will receive a code to purchase tickets for the 2023 World Championships from 10h00 CET on 9 December until 23h59 on 11 December. The general sale will start on December 12.

 

Edit: https://www.worldathletics.org/competitions/world-athletics-championships/budapest23/world-athletics-championships-tickets-to-go-on-sale-on-12-december

Edited November 25, 2022 by Vektor

[Vektor 3,326]

Oh man, $54 for the finals... I mean, that's not that expensive, a ticket of a Hungarian international football match costs the same, and I will pay it, but will 30.000 Hungarians pay that kind of money per evening? I doubt it, Hungarians don't care that much about athletics.

[phelps 7,677]

great news for many European Athletics fans...

 

Eurosport/Discovery media bought the TV & Internet rights of the 2023 World Athletics Championships to be held in Budapest 

 

more than 45 European Countries will be able to watch the event on the linear TV Channels Eurosport 1 & Eurosport 2 (the deal doesn't include the Nordic Countries: ) and stream all the events on the Eurosport OTT (in  also on Discovery Plus).

 

important note: the agreement is, as usually happens for Eusp/Discovery, on non-exclusive basis, which means that the National TV Networks can still make a deal with ESPN and Eurovision Sports, the rightholders and distributors.

 

https://www.eurosport.com/athletics/warner-bros.-discovery-secures-rights-to-broadcast-the-2023-world-athletics-championships_sto9248427/story.shtml

 

https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1130950/warner-bos-athletics#:~:text=The Budapest 2023 World Athletics,stream the event on discovery%2B.