So they did pre race meeting 2 days prior to the event (all athletes are on site). I'm really *shocked* that they didn't have an alternate schedule. I mean if this is the infrastructure of a city, cool, then you must have a plan to move it. Especially with the meeting 2 days prior, that has to be the backup plan, full stop. To basically allow weather to fully cancel your event, that's bad for business. And they cancelled it ahead of the weather, so ummm you can't see that Friday Is going to be weather and decide to move it up 1 day by Tuesday or Wed at the meeting? Moving it up vs full cancel, umm yeah all the athletes would have said "let's go".
There are 6 or 7 of these a year- this is the gold standard of your sport. You have athletes/federations spending good money to get there; you have cities spending upwards of $2mi (I know I know this is nothing for oil countries), but to just plow ahead with an schedule and "oops we are cancelling cus the infrastructure can't handle".....then you fucked up with poor planning. To not have an alternate just seems stupid, there's too much invested in this series to have a full cancel. Again this wasn't some emergency weather system that just popped up in the middle of the race or 15 mins prior. They cancelled it prior to the weather even hitting if I'm reading this correctly? So just makes no sense why there was not an alternate plan, for a host city who can't handle weather; that sorta makes no sense.
Explaining that the city can’t handle weather is an even worse look for not having foresight/ability to do a schedule change.
Brooks Doughtie, M.S.
Exercise Physiology
-USAT Level II
There are 6 or 7 of these a year- this is the gold standard of your sport. You have athletes/federations spending good money to get there; you have cities spending upwards of $2mi (I know I know this is nothing for oil countries), but to just plow ahead with an schedule and "oops we are cancelling cus the infrastructure can't handle".....then you fucked up with poor planning. To not have an alternate just seems stupid, there's too much invested in this series to have a full cancel. Again this wasn't some emergency weather system that just popped up in the middle of the race or 15 mins prior. They cancelled it prior to the weather even hitting if I'm reading this correctly? So just makes no sense why there was not an alternate plan, for a host city who can't handle weather; that sorta makes no sense.
Explaining that the city can’t handle weather is an even worse look for not having foresight/ability to do a schedule change.
Brooks Doughtie, M.S.
Exercise Physiology
-USAT Level II
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B_Doughtie: Mar 9, 24 8:23