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At first, athletics protested this disinheritance bitterly - and still resents that it will be squeezed out for five weeks at the peak of every athletics season by the tentacular grand prix - but now is resolved to start the hallowing process all over again. The finish line becomes the start.
Forward your expressions of athletic interest to E. Maguire, P.O. Box 666, Collingwood.THE VALUE OF ATHLETICS IS MORE THAN JUST $$$
While track and field may not be the revenue earner that AFL is, surely the benefits to the community are obvious to those who are making these decisions.
After all sport should be about people – not money.
I'm actually an athletics fan as much as I am an Aussie Rules fan and I saw this when one of my friends shared this link on facebook yesterday.
I'm actually an athletics fan as much as I am an Aussie Rules fan and I saw this when one of my friends shared this link on facebook yesterday.
I made the point that the athletics take on this article is quite wrong. They see it as AFL vs athletics, when in fact the plan is to make it a multi use facility for a number of elite sports that could actually benefit athletics.
Netball is already going there and the article in the paper mentioned the plan was to build new facilities and improve the current facilities so they could be used by Netball Queensland/Firebirds, The Roar, The Lions and the QAS. I would imagine a number of elite track and field athletes would actually benefit from their association with the QAS and the new sports science and rehab facilities that would be built. They simply read "AFL oval where the warm up track is" and decided it was AFL vs athletics without considering the potential benefits. If the plans had the soccer oval there, it would be athletics vs soccer.
Sure, recreational athletes and school athletes probably wouldn't get access to those elite facilities, but I see that as more of an amateur vs elite argument rather than athletics vs AFL argument.
And also, why couldn't they shift all athletics activities to the track inside the main stadium. As it currently stands, the track in the stadium is hardly used. All the training and a lot of the competitions are currently held on the outside track. I went and watched the Australian Athletics Tour event there earlier this year with some of our best athletes competing (Sally Pearson, Alana Boyd) and they only used the outside track. The main stadium was empty and not booked for a concert etc as they said was often the case. The only time (to my knowledge) two tracks are needed at the same time is the National Champs that happen once a year. And the other states get by without having a warm up track at their athletics venues.
And finally, there are synthetic running tracks available at UQ and Nudgee if the track inside the stadium can't be used by amateur athletes for training. Admittedly, it's not ideal having nothing on the southside, but using their words, having such a wide variety of sports utilising this facility benefits far more people in the community than athletics alone could.
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Well they'd have to rip up the main track after the games there as the Suns won't be able to play there otherwise. You'd think they'd leave the warm up track though (although there's already a good track at Gold Coast Griffith Uni - where Sally Pearson trains), so it would depend if there's any sort of grandstand built with it.Thanks for your posts L Dizz and Fatcat08 - I also would like to see athletics prosper in Australia and see more world class Australian athletes developed..
Would it be feasible to hold Australian championships and other top level athletic events at the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games arena instead of the existing facility?
So, when TWO little TRIBES go to war...Luckily athletics has even less lobbying clout than us.
Laughable, JT asked for a new stadium in his GF winning speech.
Knowing this state, it will probably happen.
They do need a new stadium up there. What's the issue?Laughable, JT asked for a new stadium in his GF winning speech.
Knowing this state, it will probably happen.
They do need a new stadium up there. What's the issue?
Laughable, JT asked for a new stadium in his GF winning speech.
Knowing this state, it will probably happen.
"Without having two tracks available for use at QSAC I probably woulnd't have come home from the Commonwealth Youth Games with 2 silver medals."
"Without having two tracks available for use at QSAC I probably woulnd't have come home from the Commonwealth Youth Games with 2 silver medals."