Editor’s comment (In italics):
Bobby Hodge has been there. A top marathoner when money was not in the sport, and when money began to come into the sport. Bobby has see the stagnation of professional athletics.
Bobby asked your editor for a media credential a while back as he really wanted to see the Grand Slam and Philly. So, God help us, Bobby Hodge and Jeff Benjamin spent a few hours together providing you, dear and kind readers, with some rather pointed observations and thoughts on our maddening sport. Thanks, Bobby!
Grand Slam Track: Is this new series when Athletics hits a real-world level professional sport?
https://www.grandslamtrack.com
“It took just one competition day for the much-hyped Grand Slam Track series to prove it’s not the future of track and field – it’s a flop.
In fact, ‘Grand Flop Track’ might be a more accurate name. Billed as the sport’s bold new direction by Michael Johnson, the series
revealed its true face on day one in Kingston, Jamaica: an atmosphere closer to a mausoleum than a laboratory of innovation.”
Patrick Magyar founder Diamond League Track Series in 2010,
https://runningmagazine.ca/the-scene/diamond-league-founder-has-harsh-words-for-grand-slam-track/
Magyar focused on some of the shortcomings but failed to mention the many positives beginning with the prize payout. The Diamond
League is low carat, and their prize purse certainly isn’t enough to support a professional sport. This is the primary goal of Grand Slam
Track: make our sport viable for the athletes by having the events and the governors of the sport work for them as they do in other pro
sports.
Position Diamond League prize money Grand Slam Track prize money
- $ 30,000. $100,000
2. $ 12,000 $50,000
3. $ 7,000 $30,000
4. $4000 $25,000
5. $2500. $20,000
6. $2000. $15,000
7. $1500. $12,000
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