THIS WAS AWFUL

How do we grow track and field?

I know one thing, NBC's Olympic coverage and sob stories following athletes for 55 minutes, and then the event for 2 minutes isnt going to help. It's terrible!

Honestly i feel like alot of people follow Running Productions ,this channel because it covers so much track and field events ,it anyone should be streaming events for all to see is this channel, that's my own personal opinion

We need to form two or three dedicated channels exclusively for track and field. Not just for main events, regional, ect but the daily updates ect.

To grow the sport, it’s really imperative that fans and ppl who may be interested in watching the meets actually are able to do so online without dealing with paywalls or delayed viewings of meets. I am a fan of the sport, yet I was frustrated with how the World Championship events weren’t available to watch on a platform like Hulu or YouTube as the events were happening live. Track and field should have a deal with streaming platforms to stream the events live. Also, athletes need to be accessible to the fans by engaging with them to hold their attention and interest in the sport.

Way back in 1972 I was the invitational events coordinator for a significant indoor meet. Four athletes who had agreed to come , the ones we focused our promotion on, simply did not show. I had a list of very good runners on a waiting list but could not call any because these world class athletes did not have the courtesy of picking up a phone and letting me know they couldn't come. I think they were completely class less, and insulting to the meet and their fellow athletes.I personally left the organizing part of the sport and took up coaching young athletes, which I thourghly enjoyed for the next 35 years,

I personally am a huge football fan, and one of the reasons I enjoy it, is that I am able to watch free matches on a consistent basis. Track and field needs to offer this sort of coverage in order to grow. People can’t fall in love with a sport they never watch.

Complain To The President Of The USATF, who is paid 4 million a year and does nothing to promote The Sport

The coverage was shocking & far too many DNS from athletes, but s/o to Shafiqua Maloney (1.23.80 600m NR/WL/#9 all-time) & Britton Wilson (51.07 400m WL) who ran well.

Yep, thats the problem.....where to watch it. So many people dont even know who she is so how and why

To grow the sport of track and field? There needs to be REAL updates and REAL coverage of it. I'm a huge track and field fan and I totally forgot about this track meet because no one was really talking about it. Make it more accessible. Now a days to watch a track meet you have to watch through some 3rd party or pay a $30 to $50 a month subscription. And even then depending on what state you live in you still might not be able to watch. Which means you have to wait until someone post the highlights on YouTube. As far as athletes dropping out or meets, I don't think that's something that will ever be fixed. Most pro athletes dont run during the indoor season, and they usually only run 3 MAYBE 4 meets before trails.

I can speak for Germany where Track & Field is hurt by the fact that many big stadiums have been turned into pure football/soccer stadiums over the last 20 or so years making it difficult to host meetings in bigger towns. Berlin and Munich have their respective Olympic stadiums, but most other cities have lost their stadiums with tracks. There are still meetings happening, but it just shows that there isn't much importance placed on Track & Field and it shows in the results of German athletes or the lack thereof.

More money need to put in track&field and it will grow.

The channel "Sprint Media" created a video covering how sprinting could be made a much more popular sport. I think the ideas in it have much potential and should be heard! The ideas included things such as 1v1s, a premier league, getting big personalities to race and more!

This meet was disappointing the whole way through. Even because we had strong headwinds for every event. Most of these tracks are invertible for this exact purpose. Why wouldn't we switch the track so that we have 1.0-3.0m/s tailwinds instead of headwinds? We would have ended up with many world leads, Olympic qualifiers, and overall exciting performances. Perhaps we even would have had less DNFs since athletes have nothing to gain from running into a 2.0m/s headwind.

“How can we grow coverage on track and field” as of now this channel is the only way 😂 it’s the reason I feel in love with the sport and am now running in college

I’ve been watching track meets on TV for 30+ years. I have been disappointed with coverage and scheduling promotion for so long! The sport is basically invisible until the Olympics come around.

What was utterly shocking to me was witnessing Shashalee Forbes ignored and abandoned in agony after her injury, prompting me to question vehemently: where are the medics? Kudos to Tee Tee Terry and Sha'Sha'Carri for stepping in to assist when no medical help was in sight. What is happening?

As with the majority of organizations that are not performing to their potential its about the people. Sebastian Coe is NOT a business man. He is an ex athlete, turned politician. In speaking over the weekend in Paris at the ASIC event he said " We are growing slowly as a sport and thats what we want " NO IT ISNT, that is not aspirational leadership. World Athletics is BROKEN and it desperately needs people who know how to run a global business. Find those people, look after them and they will do the job. It's not rocket science.

I looked everywhere to see this coverage and could not find it anywhere, I watched it last year and really enjoyed the meet.