Time for New World to get back in the game
Anyone out there wanna host a big ol’ track meet? World Masters Athletics has posted a reminder that the deadline for submitting bids for the 2010 world indoor championships and the 2011 world outdoors is September 1, 2006. If North America were to win one of the meets, it would mark nearly a decade after the last time the Yanks hosted the big shindig (Puerto Rico 2003 counts). For the record, the 2007 outdoor championships is in Riccione/Misano Adriatico, Italy. The 2008 world indoor meet is in Clermont-Ferrand, France, and the 2009 outdoor worlds is in Lahti, Finland.
The New York Armory bid for the first WMA world indoor meet in 2004 but despite a superior technical bid got aced out by Sindelfingen, Germany.
The United States and Canada haven’t bid for a world outdoor meet in a long time. Now it’s time to get back in the game.
Say, Sacramento! You’ve hosted the Olympic Trials twice. Try for a WMA meet, and the Speedo-wearing Euros will flood the beaches on the coast.
Yo, Eugene! You did the big ‘un in 1989. You’ve hosted masters nationals in 2000 and 2003. Time to put Hayward Field (and surrounding tracks) to the test again in 2011.
Eh, Edmonton! You put on the World Masters Games in 2005. This should be a piece of cake by comparison.
Boston, the 2008 indoor meet would be a real feather in your tri-cornered cap.
So let’s start whipping up some candidates. Or else we’ll be looking at another whooping in terms of Euro team rosters.
The Germans don’t deserve to have ALL the fun, ya know.
