With a young daughter recently interested in athletics, I tuned into the European Team Chamionships from Portugal this weekend and had the misfortune to watch a couple of the distance races where the European Athletics Association had decided in their wisdom to introduce a ' devil take the hindmost' concept at regular intervals in the long distance races, where the last placed athlete after x laps is hooked off the track.......incredible, shambolic, embarrassing and dreadful were the words that came to mind.
Athletes used to pacing themselves over 3000, 5000, or 10,000 metres are suddenly asked to sprint like...well actually, sprinters..... in the middle of a supposedly international class event....woeful television and shocking mistreatment of athletes.
next idea please, this one didn't work!
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