The “youth of the world”, they gathered to the Sport. Each Time the IOC President calls on at the end of the Olympic games to do so in four years. Now it is just Gathering difficult. And the question is: How to gather, compete against each other, without really coming together? The “Inspiration Games”, a new Format of the Diamond League, seems to be a solution – but is it really?
28 Stars of the athletics compete in eight disciplines against each other, on two continents, in four time zones. Three athletes start at the same time. About 150 meters of the women about the Olympic champion Shaunae Miller runs-Uibo against Allyson Felix of America and the Swiss Mujinga Kambundji. The latter starts in Zurich, Felix in California and Miller-Uibo in Florida. In Zurich will be from all three competitions this Thursday for a 90-minute TV Show.
An Event that brings the spectators, the athletes away from the media presence, however, of little. “The Stars of the athletics are back,” say the organizers, a Live-Event of a “new Dimension”. And certainly, such a progress of grace, at the end of the event there has not been in athletics yet.
, in isolation, be inspired
the Trailer that introduces the disciplines, shows which images it will not give: sprinters running side by side, the thighs of the hurdles runner almost touch. The question is: How is it for the athletes to run in an empty stadium? Athletics is a discipline that lives in the vicinity.
Like the athletes should not come in the famous Tunnel, if you feel at the Start of the rest of the opponent, in addition to, and not the steps of the competitor from the back or hear a rocker horse cock see in front of you. It is the competitors, the athletes in the competition situation on are still. If athletes just run alone, why even compete? What remains for you is probably a positive tingling in the Morning or a queasy feeling before the Competition and for spectators, a huge TV Event.