Lyon worlds set for 4 stadia: Study your schedule, maps carefully
It’s eight months until Lyon worlds. It’ll take that long to figure which events you can contest, given the four stadiums involved. At least the day-by-day schedule is out, color-coded by venue. We’ve begun to hear athlete fears about getting from Point A to Point B, and how far apart the cities are. Venues are detailed here. Although the main stadium is in Lyon, others are in the southeastern suburbs of Vénissieux and Bron. Here’s a PDF of the men’s schedule. And here’s the women’s schedule. Most world meets have travel issues. (Meanwhile, here’s hotel reserved for Team USA.)
Click for more details on daily schedules for 2015 Lyon WMA world meet.
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Ouch. Things like triple jump finals at three different venues on four different days suggest the events were written in cards, thrown up in the air, and used as they’d landed. With a schedule this fractured, there will be no real sense of “a big event”. It will just be an apparently random jumble of small events. I will certainly be revisiting my intention to photograph in Lyon too. Looks like it might just be too much hard work.
And all this in a city well known for traffic problem….
Main stadium 1 is quite far from the other three, those three are quite close to each other in the south-eastern suburbs. Main stadium 2 has more place for technical disciplines than main stadium 1, nice warm-up field too.
Lets the complaining begin…it is age appropriate ……
With all due awe and respect to Mr. Jamrich, is complaining appropriate when the 2013 WMA-Porto Alegre, Brazil M60 300m Hurdle finals are scheduled at the same time in a different stadium from the M60 High Jump finals, requiring one to run from the hurdle finish line to the street to find a cramped half-hour cab ride to enter the High Jump in the middle of competition with limited opportunity for warm-ups and steps?
The three main stadions are all close to the same metro line!
Shades of Riccione.
WMA has posted links to what it calls “Updated 2015 Lyon Schedule (10.12.2014) Venue changes required modifications to the 2015 Lyon Schedule.â€
Do these differ from the skeds posted above?
http://www.world-masters-athletics.org/files/championships/2015lyonschedulem.pdf
http://www.world-masters-athletics.org/files/championships/2015lyonschedulew.pdf
I’m told that the Lyon sked I posted and the WMA skeds posted are “one and the same.”
I would encourage everyone to arrive at least 2 days before your first scheduled event. To allow sufficient time to pick up your packet and learn the necessary bus/tram/subway schedule to your respective venues. I would also suggest to everyone that you not wait until the final day to register for the World Championships. With so many athletes expected to register for this World championship. The system could get easily overloaded in the final days. Also keep in mind that your bank might initially reject your international charge for your entry if you don’t make them aware before hand. So if you wait until the last night and you have no one to call. You will not get registered and be out of the World championship.
price goes up too if you wait much longer.
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