World Athletics Championships 2019

No they haven't.

The stadiums will be packed for the athletics in the Olympics next year.
Yes I agree with you if the championship was held in the UK it would have had full stadiums. However I think anybody caught drug cheating should be thrown out of the sport permanently, I get sick to death of these temporary bans.
 
BBC trying their best to make out the crowds are getting better, do they think we are all blind?

Why do we as license payers have to put up with the the vast amount of personnel they have sent out to Qatar, what a waste of our money.
 
Why do we as license payers have to put up with the the vast amount of personnel they have sent out to Qatar, what a waste of our money.

If no one was interested in watching it, they wouldn't be spending anyone out there to cover it.

They're getting hours of coverage out of it and it probably doesn't work out any more expensive than filling the airtime with alternative original programming.
 
What a thoroughly dispiriting spectacle that women's 100m final was. I youtubed Jonathan Edwards triple jump wr from 1995, after watching the triple jump final and the stadium was jam packed full of enthusiastic and excited spectators.

Fast forward to 2019 and the athletes are being watched by, err.....no one. In many ways athletics has brought this all on itself but (as someone who had the minerals in their youth*) athletics is dying a slow painful undignified death.




*represented England as a schoolboy 800m.

Do you recall the sellout crowds at the London world champs?!
Or go and watch the English Schools Athletics Champs at the Alexander Stadium.
Or go to many a leisure centre on a winter Sunday afternoon and see hundreds of young athletes doing Sportshall indoor athletics and loving it.
Or go and walk round any park at 9am on a Saturday morning.
The successors to the big Euro events of yesteryear like the Weltklasse in Zurich, the Ivo Van Damme in Brussels and the Oslo event are all still rammed with spectators every summer.

Athletics ain’t dying, no way.
 

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