WMA Web site is the picture of cluelessness
Picture this: the front page of MLB.com featuring a single group photo of commissioner Bud Selig and a bunch of balding club owners. Or this: the gateway page to IAAF.org boasting a lone shot of IAAF President Lamine Diack and his council cronies. Absurd? Ridiculous? But of course. No sensible sports site is illustrated with bureaucrats. Then there’s WMA.
Cripes! We’re a month away from the 15th World Masters Athletic Championships. Excitement is building. Anticipation abounds. Who will star? Who will set unforgettable world records? Who cares? Certainly not WMA, which instead of posting an athlete photo on the site treats us to a lovely shot of “WMA inspection team Torsten Carlius, Ron Bell, Brian Oxley and Brian Keaveney together with the Vancouver LOC — for the WMA Non-Stadia Championships in 2006.â€
Say what? A bunch of meet organizers of an event three years away?
(And don’t get me started on the amateurish posing — their faces microscopic.)
So it goes in the wacky world of WMA, where the Web site embraces Council agendas and legalistic pronouncements and banishes stuff the athletes really want — meet calendars, results and rankings.
But it’s all in keeping with the Imperial Presidency of Sweden’s Torsten Carlius — who hopes to remove term limits from WMA’s constitution. Such trappings of officialdom have been pointed out before. Yet there’s no stopping such pathetic self-indulgence.
WMA is about athletics — track and field for older folks. Is it asking too much to reflect this on the movement’s premier official Web site?
Gawd! What a great way to grow the sport.
2 Responses
Well put, Jameson. No need for more divisiveness at a time when WMA is clearly making its little “movidas” to marginalize US, including the erroneous claim by Oxley in NMN that objections to severely limited (Championships only) and otherwise “challenged” World Rankings are restricted to the U.S. Contributors here on this US-based Website are from several continents, with most if not all agreeing the old approach was time-tested and satisfactory to all.
It seems clear that not all members of Mastertf care to take on WMA on all fronts–at least not so aggressively. There are enough relevant issues to go around without the gratuitous putdowns.
And what’s with the “bald guys” bit? Besides I only counted two or three, plus several baseball caps. Isn’t natural testosterone still OK?
Baldy but still “mountin'”
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