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    Lord Coe: wrong as usual

    Let's shorten the World Championships, that'll make us more fun

    Utter cobblers.

    If anything, the already foreshortened version of the Worlds - compared to the Olympics and its two-week programme - makes it seem an inferior thing. Contracting it further so that, for example, no-one could run both 100 and 200, or 800 and 1500? For Seb Coe - of all people - to suggest that seems bizarre.

    If football and cricket have learnt anything it's that, actually, more is more, not less is more. If Athletics is failing to get the TV audiences it's because not nearly enough effort is put into promoting the actual names, the characters, who will be involved in each event, ahead of time. Not a single person in the UK had heard of Greg Rutherford, for example, not even some of his aunties, before he won Olympic Gold. And that bit - promoting the events, and the stars, making us WANT to anticipate each event for longer than just learning their names before it starts and to watch for two weeks not one - is EXACTLY Seb Coe's fucking job. So get on with it.

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    Lord Coe: wrong as usual

    Rogin the Armchair Fan wrote: Let's shorten the World Championships, that'll make us more fun

    If anything, the already foreshortened version of the Worlds - compared to the Olympics and its two-week programme - makes it seem an inferior thing.
    A minor point but the Worlds runs for pretty much the same amount of days as the Atheltics programme in the Olympics, no?

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      Lord Coe: wrong as usual

      Yep, the Olympic athletics programme has been over 9 days, not the full 16 in recent Games. It hasn't started until midway through generally, beginning on the middle weekend. Very few sports run over the whole two weeks, most are either first or second week. Swimming takes pride of place in week 1, generally.

      Just checked, and Rio is indeed following that pattern. Swimming from 6th-13th August, Athletics from 12th-21st. Opening ceremony on 5th, Closing on 21st.

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        Lord Coe: wrong as usual

        It used to be once every four years but was devalued by making it once every two. They should keep the 9 days format and go back to once every four.

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