The London Olympic Stadium, photo by Mike Deering / The Shoe Addicts
The sport is coming back, and Seb Coe is speaking with media on how athletics is coming back in the modern time of this pandemic. This time will take cool thinking to bring the sport back…
Empty Stadiums
Hayward Field, design by Eugene-Register Guard
LONDON (GBR): In a separate interview published by insidethegames.biz, Seb Coe said athletics may have to take place in empty stadiums. “In the short term we may have to compromise on that,” he said. “We can’t be oblivious or tin-eared to what we are being told by local communities and public health authorities. It may well mean that. It’s clear that football is going to come back quite quickly with the Bundesliga plans. And that will be behind closed doors. I don’t think anybody is contemplating this as the ideal long-term solution – sport would wither on the vine quite quickly if that were the case. But that may well be a compromise we have to make in order to get the athletes back into competition, leagues finished, at least some kind of competition.”
Stade Charlety, Paris, France, photo by European Athletics
