It is possible that first of all be mentioned as a joke, but the World Athletics proposal to start the World Cup Championship
If it seemed that it was the day of April fools, it was because it was on time. In 2023, on April 1, Canadian Running Magazine An article has been published proudly that “the World Cup Championship Championship is coming to Canada.” The event, which has suggested, intended to expand the sport to run a wider audience and making it “more comprehensive fair weather runners.”
It even included the global Athletics quotation that explains that Edmonton is “the ideal event” of the event, “he” absolutely freezes it “.
So far, so funny. But then the latest news came, the Athletics Management Body are is actively looking to start the event. What started, because nothing more than humor was thrown, suddenly moved to a reality party.
“There are millions of people in the world who just go to the gym and run to the executioner,” said Jon John Ridgon, Chief Executive Officer of World Athletics Everyday mailA number “We need to create products for those people. We must have a world treadmill.
“You are athletic if you go 30 mins for 30 minutes, or if you win a gold medal in 100 meters. It is all athletics. We’re working on this moment. We will present a technological partner that we are going to work to develop virtual driving scene. “
The reception was, to put it mildly, mixed. For many athletics fans, Ridg’s words were not more serious than the joke of the day of April fools. Responding to the news about the post on AW Instagram, the American Olympic Olympic Olympics Fredde Chrittend said. What are the man doing? “
Many worlds, cooperation and European 4x400m medalist Conrad Williams wrote: “It simply came to our notice then. And not necessary. “
Others were more supportive. “Register me”. He said multiple cooperation and European medalist Eilish McColgan. “It is obvious that sports has many other areas to correct … But it can be a good way to connect our sport to the mass market, who hits the gym every day. And it’s a much better idea than adding another sprint relay, imon (in my opinion). “
Its partner, former international 800 m 800 m, thinks that it believes that “this type of content can be appetite” and highly assessed the “imagination” of the governing body.
Jakob Legebrigten
Athletics, like almost every sport that fights for compliance and modification of 21st century consumption patterns has problems. The athletes are not paid enough, the main television transactions fade, and the sponsorship or is lacking a 10-year-old deal with a long seasonal athletics.)
The field element of sports seems to be on the path of disappearing, the world’s Athletics, Michael Johnson’s upcoming Grand Slam Track and a handful of other bold starts. So yes, athletics have big problems. But that doesn’t mean that the world’s treadmill championship should be treated with contempt.
The options of the existing sports gym are big business. Originally launched in 2020, as a way to build a sport, a closed triglon sees the cycle of the best opponents in the world on static bicycles, running on the executioners and swimming pool – center screens and viewers. At the beginning of this year, the British Water Incompete Center, Kashandre Bevandre, spent a few months ago the title of Treathlon’s Treathlon Championship, the French woman. In fact, athletics are the only one of the subjects of three individual triathlon that do not have a void of a sports gym.
Since 2018, the world’s closed sea championship has been held every year and see that competitors use rowing machines known as ergometers. The UCI Cycling Esports Championship, which was launched in 2020, and participants on bicycle bicycles are fixed on turbo coaches.
“We want to produce athletics option,” Ridgeon confirmed Everyday mailA number “When you think athletics are the most popular sport in the world, we must have our equivalent.
“We are trying to introduce territories and future future future sports as much as possible.”
While Elite Athletics is fighting for eyebrows, the events of mass participation and fitness programs are prospered. 840,318 people turned to 840,318 for the 2025 ballot in London. Pre-closed training modes such as CrossFit (depicting a mix of aerobic, body weight and weightlifting exercises) and consist of 8 kilometers of eight functional exercises) grow exposition.
There is a ripe market for people who can communicate with the executioner, but no instantaneous idea where their local athletics paths and it take place on it. We are also an era used to use digital technology during fitness and exercise and see that it is integrated into the elite end of sports.
Tom Evans
Taking a competitive run to the executioner and connecting the digital avatar can be an anathema, an experienced sports follower, but those who are already in love with sports. Growth is important, and here is the possible unused spectators.
“We must accept and we have to take our sport where people are,” explained the World Athletics President Seb Council. “It’s very important.”
Walnuts and screws, what can be like any championships in these stages. The use of self-doubly curved treadmills (used in a closed trianthlon) will appear the most likely equipment, while it is possible to wait for the interactive online platform of Zwift or Mywhoosh. As for distances or race format, it is safe to assume that medium or long distances will be comfortable. Thus, for any sprinter, flight, throts and obstacles, and their supporters, of course, will not be for them.
Tom Evans
But before the countless battles of Matletics remain, it is not a reason to tap the possible avenue to further growing sports. Even if it started life as a joke.
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