WMA reveals it has no bidders for 2012 indoor worlds

Acting president Monty Hacker of World Masters Athletics yesterday reported that nobody has bid to host the 2012 World Masters Indoor Championships — and that all cities publicly declared interested in holding the 2013 outdoor worlds are pretty much chopped liver. Welcome to reality, WMA. Your $150,000 rights fee may be pricing some good locales out of the competition. Monty writes: “Affiliates are hereby notified that despite (WMA) Council having extended the deadline for the above bids to 30th November 2008, no firm bid packages have as yet been received. However, firm intentions to bid have been received as follows: 1. From the City of Porto Alegre (BRA), for 2013 – Stadia; 2. From the City of Turin (ITA), for 2013 – Stadia, and; 3. From Kuala Lumpur (MAL), for 2013 – Stadia.”


Monty continues, explaining about KL’s bid:

However, this intention may well be stillborn because the group behind this bid appears to be unable to obtain the required endorsement for their bid from our WMA Malaysian affiliate. As presently advised, no intention to bid has been received for the WMA 2012 Indoor Championships.

So I guess if they don’t get legitimate bids for 2012 or 2013, they’ll hold a conference call and give ‘em to Cleveland.

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October 29, 2008

6 Responses

  1. mellow johnny - October 29, 2008

    Conference call to decide the location for 2009 Outdoor Nats according to a post in the forum.
    So, where the heck is it going to be?

  2. mellow johnny - October 29, 2008

    hmm…should have said the conference call to determine ’09 Outdoor Nats was TODAY…
    Ken’s post appears to indicate the potentially Cleveland got it but I think he was just joking about the process.
    Or was he?

  3. Mark Cleary - October 29, 2008

    That conference call doesn’t happen until 9:00pm EST. The Masters World will know by tomorrow.

  4. mellow johnny - October 29, 2008

    Thanks, Mark. An hour away…right about the same time as the 7th inning stretch in the World Series continuation game tonight!

  5. mellow johnny - October 29, 2008

    It’s 1am on the East Coast…anyone get the scoop on the conference call?

  6. Mark Cleary - October 30, 2008

    mellow Johnny the 2009 Masters Outdoor location will be announced this weekend.Ken will be on the list that gets the official announcement. Check back to the blog this weekend. Please just be patient a little longer.

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