Why isn't Sprinting More Popular? 10 Changes to Improve Sprinting Popularity

[@mrgold3591]

The problem can also be the rankings. The 10th best NFL quarterback or 10th best NBA point guard will get a $10-$20 million dollar contract plus endorsements. The 10th fastest USA sprinter, distance runner, or jumper is working at Home Depot to make ends meets.

[@alexdaison]

That's really sad

[@Messup7654]

That’s a problem with the sport not rankings also the 10th best point guard is getting a 100 million dollar contract at the least and the 10 best nfl web is getting 70 mil at least

[@B1gBossMan]

It's just because it's over really quickly and there's barely a build up of suspense, doubt and finally hope. Like in other sports

[@Meidaneh_Shush]

I disagree, the build up is in the warm-ups, heats, potential false starts and introductions. You can look at it another way that you get pure suspense in the moment the gun goes off, in other sports there's millions of breaks and adds in between the actual time the sport is shown.

[@bruno1728]

@B1gBossMan No, if you think about it Mike tyson often ended fights in seconds, as well as other fighters, and they still generated a lot of money

[@recoistsir7020]

But the 9 second short 100 meter race wins pay more than longer races. Why is that

[@JimmyKim-fb1ji]

@@recoistsir7020because only 180 people broke sub 10 seconds in the 100m which means that it is very competitive and very hard to get to the top while the mile has 1800 people who broke sub 4 mins. This is because sprinting requires insane genetics and there’s no efficient ped to make you faster while distance runners has epo and certain steriods that give epo like effects. It’s like if a office has only 3 people in there they will pay more just to get more people in the office while if a office is almost maxed out they won’t offer as much pay since they don’t really need it. Plus sprinting events gets more views and money than long distance

[@Simon-bv3zo]

This is why distance is just better

[@vincent7674]

This would be a great idea, Watching Donovan Bailey Vs Michael Johnson in there 1v1 150m was iconic, it was the most entertaining race buildup I've ever seen with ads and interviews and a genuine storyline , Both athletes got paid 500k to participate and $1m for the winner,we need more of that

[@augustusfreeman4032]

Why are you guys obsessed with 1v1 races so much? 30+ High speed races before trials? The big stars are gonna be gassed running 10.1/10.2 by then. College kids are gonna be USA's representatives if that happens.

[@bruno1728]

@@augustusfreeman4032 NBA basketball players dont care about the olympics🤷🏾‍♂️. Pro athletes will go where the money is.

[@RandomPerson-vu6yu]

⁠@@bruno1728 American NBA players don’t care about the Olympics cause they win it all time. Foreign players care about it cause it means a lot to their nation. Has nothing to do with money.

[@augustusfreeman4032]

​@@bruno1728 Footballers, Track Athletes and 99% of international athletes DO care about international tournaments however.

[@bruno1728]

@@RandomPerson-vu6yu bro its not only NBA. In european football no pros go to the olympics. And thats many countries, who dont always win. They let the amateures go cause there is no money in it

[@therealkray93]

There was a PC video game called "Sprinter" when me and my friends were in middle/high school back around 2007. We played the heck out of that game and it was literally tapping the space bar as fast as you could. If they brought something like that to modern gaming consoles it would be fire.

[@SuperKamiGuruu]

Lol you have to tap "< & >" now on it

[@lukethompson4408]

Absolutely brilliant video. Thank you for making this. Great ideas and suggestions. The ideas of a street games for 100-200m are really cool. I think with tweaking, this format would work as individual competitions for 3k & 5k (time trial format) jumpers (high and long), throwers (javelin, shot and discus) and pole vaulters. To make use of current athletics tracks they could do one lap and two races where the two competitors start at opposite ends of track with a 10-20m flying start instead. You’ve got me excited!!

[@rubenvanderheiden6441]

The club concept is very potent allowing for a ton of athletes to compete at the highest level. It would be cool to see teams choosing one event each and then the day before there will be drawn from a Pool with all other events to select 4 more events and one relay. In total there will be 7 events held always including 1 relay, 1 jump event,1 hurdle event 1 distance event and 1 sprint event and 1 random event depending on what the teams close themselfs. Athletes can only compete twice during a match including the relay. In total there will be 28 spots (3athletesx6events+relay) to fill in and a team can only put in a maximum of 17 athletes so the have to close wisely who they choose. Furthermore teams can only have 22 athletes in their match selection. They do have more athletes in case of injury. Kind of like soccer where you have 11 players and 7 substitutes on the bench and a few more players which are part of the selection but you cant substitutie in you have 17 players 5 substitutes which agent selecte to compete and a few extra players in case someone drops from the roster cause of a injury. You will have 4v4 matchup in the distance and technical events where points will be counted for 1-5 place the team with the most points wins the event. In the sprints and the hurdles athletes will compete in a best of four 1v1 face offs the team winning the most face offs winst the event(total time is the tie breaker). The teams will be a mix of male and female players. The team who wins the most events will win the match. Imagine your favourite team sweeping a opposing team or clutching a comeback from 2 points behind winning the last 3 events. The battles in the last relay leg. Competitiveness in more than one event makes an athlete really desirable cause you dont have the luxury to put all your athletes in the team. If you can only shotput youll rarely get selected cause you only have 6 athletes competing in one event and 11 in 2 events. A transfer of a sprinter who is a headface of a team will be a big deal. Imagine Puma Londen buying Christian Coleman from Nike Paris for their line-up for next year for 10milion dollars . Or promotion relagation system, where smaller teams sponsored by hoka or saucony or Smth can promote by winning the B-league and then facing of against the big teams from all over the world. The hype when big teams clash like Puma vs Adidas. 16 teams will compete in 30 matches home and away to qualify for the play-offs top 8 will enter a knock-out tournament for the championship win and the bottom 2 would relagate and make place for the top 2 from the B-league. Number 14 and 13 would clash against the number 3 and 4 from the B-league to stay on the highest level.

[@rubenvanderheiden6441]

Ended up beig a long comment😂

[@JimmyKim-fb1ji]

Bro could have wrote my essay

[@rubenvanderheiden6441]

@@JimmyKim-fb1ji depends, whats the topic?

[@buffboi7977]

there's very little room for opinion when it comes to track, sure there's the occasional "oh what if coleman didn't stumble" or "what if bolt didn't false start" but usually the fastest person wins and its almost obvious who's the fastest by watching the rounds prior. in team sports you can speculate "i wonder how they'll gameplan for X Y and Z" or " i wonder how they'll do without their best receiver" or "my team would've won if it wasn't this that or the other" and thats a huge part of why team sports are interesting, vs the only real speculation there is in track is if someone will perform up to their best or not which is usually pretty obvious. also, rooting for a team is the other big driver for team sports, which is a lot simpler when there's more of a possibility that that team may win, compared to in track you may root for somebody competing for your country but when that person's seed time is 10.15 and there's multiple guys under 9.9 at a world championship event there's not much hope there lol

[@curtiss744]

This is an awesome idea , I wish you could present an idea like that to Michael Johnson and his plans for a track and field league starting in 2025 , track and field has unlimited potential to be amongst the top tier sports it’s just a matter of proper marketing but all ideas to make the sport better is welcomed

[@augustusfreeman4032]

Why are you guys obsessed with 1v1 races so much? 30+ High speed races before trials? The big stars are gonna be gassed running 10.1/10.2 by then. College kids are gonna be USA's representatives if that happens.

[@sprintspeedmedia]

My suggestion was 14 races per athlete with an extra 1-2 races for semi final/finalists. The idea for 14 races was for the purpose of rivalry so that athletes face each opponent twice but it could work fine with 7 league races then 1-2 more for semis/final. I dont think 7-9 high level races before trials would be that detrimental to performance at trials If an athlete runs 9 1v1 races, followed by 3 races at trials then 3 races at the championship, that's 15 total and it isn't much different from a normal season. If an athlete plans to double 100 and 200 at the championships then it would be harder for them to run in the 1v1 league. In Olympic years maybe the 1v1 league could run post Olympics but there is always the year with no championships to experiment since there's nothing to qualify for. Last year Lyles for example ran 5 100m races and 3 200m races before he ran the 100 at trials.

[@JimmyKim-fb1ji]

@@sprintspeedmedia there shouldn’t be 1v1 races because it would make sprinters run too much as sprinting uses up too much energy which is why sprinters always ease up in the quarter final because they don’t want to get injured. 1v1 would make it so they would have to all out every race since they don’t want to get elimated by the other person so they can’t ease up. Sprinting is not a endurance sport it’s a all out sport this would be a clear disadvantage to people go really fast in the first 60m and are slow at the 200m because this format clearly helps 200m runners like Noah lyles.

[@sayanbhowmik4535]

Athletic is one of the most underrated sport ever. And the main reason is the Promotion team and many other things to. Athletics really needs to gear up itself like all other sprots and games.

[@adilsuleiman6862]

We got to spread this account and his message, all you said was super good ideas. Especially the 1v1 and KZbin races!!

[@bricedbeginner]

Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant and not out of the realm of possibility....someone PLEASE send this video to the world athletics board

[@JeremiahJonesJebronJames]

I like this idea, definitely still a work in progress, I thing I would change is the 1v1 concept. I feel like watching 100m is more entertaining with more people maybe a number like 4 people running(1v1v1v1) is more entertaining

[@crap_bag_trust]

Interesting idea on the sprint leagues and the 100m 1v1, and its an extremely drastic change. It might go well for mainstream fans, but for normal track fans that would be radically different, and wondering how it could affect the athletes bodies. Track is a different sport. It is one of the most body straining sports, having two high speed races in a night may cause injuries.

[@augustusfreeman4032]

Exactly, a sprinter running 30+ high speed races before trial and a global championship isn't the equivalent to a footballer playing 30+ League matches. It would be like a footballer playing 80+ league matches before a international tournament.

[@giffysstiffy887]

Can you imagine the money that would be generated by sponsoring Cole Beck😎🙂🥸🏋‍♂️ Beck has the potential to be the best sprinter ever and he plays Football at Virginia Tech 🏋‍♂️🙂 Beck stayed away from college football for the most part because he concentrated on sprinting but Beck plans on doing both this season🙂🤠 If you look up Beck's high school football highlights you'll be impressed (he goes by Cole and Coleton Beck). Beck is white so many sponsors wont like him...hopefully he goes to a good one

[@bui340]

I like it, but would other athletics disciplines suffer?

[@sayanbhowmik4535]

Not much u r worng brother.

[@MojoMoneyMajor]

i like the match maker idea like youtube boxing, many sports can learn from this imo

[@matehj]

Amazing work, altho i feel like a big change like this would be hated by elites until they see the money. Looking at the proposed long jump changes it seems although the sport performs poorly they still are so afraid of change. Awesome ideas tho man

[@valleyshrew]

I dont think 1v1s are gonna work when we can just compare the finishing times, it will feel like we're having our time wasted when they could all just run at once. I'd like to see them add a new distance to the Olympics, maybe 60m, 150m or 300m. And there's a lot of room for new relays. 4x200m or 100/200/300/400.

[@JimmyKim-fb1ji]

Sprinting is more popular than distance running it’s not that sprinting is boring it’s that track and field doesn’t have a lot of viewership

[@SChome100]

The need to make a sprinting game like they do with nba2k. I think that will greatly increase the popularity of the sport!

[@jadonplays1011]

Someone give this man an Oscar

[@IzzySnoor]

I feel like there should be race days up to 150-800m 1v1s inbetween the 100m 1v1s to give them all enough rest so that they don't have to run everyday.

[@bruno1728]

Do you think the 400 arounf the track has potential for this format?

[@apostlepost]

Yes!

[@MatthewSprint]

Whether for better or for worse the upcoming enhanced games will probably have a Huuuge impact on the popularity of the Sport, especially with incentives to push limits, everyone wants to know 'what is the fastest human-being ever capable of Running?' especially nowadays.. Also I think Bodybuilding is actually more similar to Sprinting than football for example, in Bodybuilding you have these dudes who are the Stars flexing on a stage for 10 minutes competing against each-other for a title, pushing the limits of what is 'big' or 'aesthetic' with their different poses and niches due to their body dimensions.. it's not a long burn like a football Season but a one-and-done, with a definitive champion.. Maybe with people talking about steroids so openly (probably for the worse) you'll see a generation of Sprinters who are shameless in this regard.. But also WADA does have some Arbitrary bans on certain things like peptides which could help with recovery from injury and longevity of an athlete that don't really make that much sense to ban.. I could totally see how in Sprinting, like Powerlifting you have a 'natural category' and an 'untested category'.. A natural champion (true champion) and the experiment champion Haha

[@euricobergum4717]

I think 1v1 racing is a bad idea, it makes it really weird for sprinters and kinda ruins the satifactions you get when you see the two fastest in the heat pace away from the rest, rather than just watching two people.

[@Runaway_Nba]

you never dissapoint

[@brandone.5106]

Any sport that only focuses on one small aspect of human abilities, speed, agility, endurance, or strength will be less popular than sports that combine them all. Also, sprints are literally over in 9.58-55 seconds. Not much to hold attention for long. Not much to replay. Not much to look back on. Weightlifting suffers for some of the same reasons.

[@sayanbhowmik4535]

Athletic is one of the most underrated sport ever man... Even Usain Bolt used to say ' ITS SO HARD AND ALL PEOPLE DON'T KNOW ' google toughest sports u wont even find the name of Athletics anywhere. 🙂💔

[@bruno1728]

Did you get this idea from rae edwards? I rhink he mentioned somthing like that

[@sprintspeedmedia]

I had the idea on my mind beforehand but yes I did see a video where he spoke about 1v1 races so credit to him

[@bruno1728]

@@sprintspeedmedia when do you think it will begin to be implemented, and who do you think will do it? I mean organize it

[@Midnight.Scythe]

14:05 i agree and almost everything except this one We saw 1st hand what happens when betting is involved from thr NFL

[@tajaytaylor8867]

Bolt brought it a far way tho i bet a few ppl srop watching after that era end

[@sayanbhowmik4535]

Yess Athletics really needs to gear up itself like all other sports has already done. T&F athletes get nothing what they actually deserves.

[@PositiveChiro-1]

Wow nice idea

[@mnqobimzelemu]

What about the up and coming athletes?

[@clemenriott]

This is gold

[@PEN-N-PAL]

*It's a U.S.A problem, the third most populated country in the world has to many professional sports leagues to care about Track and Field which has relegated it to a secondary sport.*

[@Gomie01]

Every oje pls send this to worldathletics

[@wandrag1430]

These guys practice hours just like NFL and NBA athletes, but their events it only lasts for 10 or 20 seconds, where team sports can last 90 minutes. The entertainment value is much more luring and one can squeeze in so many more endorsements if the period of the event is longer.

[@kaustix852]

I think its there's not a lot of big star and most are quite anonymous.

[@peteralexander2851]

1v1 isn’t the answer the issue there isn’t club track events global if there are clubs or teams then there is something for the fans to get behind because it’s a brand the reason why there is a big void after Usain left is because track was attached to the name Usain not the club Racers that produced him Yohan Warren Weir among others had they done that then we’d be seeing club v club so Noah would be worth whatever but overall athletes would be in a bidding war where bigger clubs with better equipment bid for the athlete so he can run for them etc. leads to name branding etc. legacy so now they can talk about the era when this club dominated and had one of the fastest men of all time and thing like that also there are certain elements that are missing from track that other sports have which are rivalries trash talk in order to hype a clash and garner interest fans need to believe that you are aiming to win and you saying that and putting it out there says I’m confident in my ability and my training that I will demolish my opponents

[@OLCtv]

1v1 is cool but meets for only 100 meters would be it🤷🏿‍♂️everyone show up and compete at 100 meters and vice versa. 200s 300s 400s ect

[@SSnVOF_Stoic]

If you live in the US with that type of speed...forget track and play football eg: Tyreek Hill. Unless you really hate money lol.

[@EzeBall1710]

This fire

[@raysprint4923]

IOC and World Athletics steal all the money

[@NOSTALGIA.64]

Include gambling to the sport, like who is gonna win it or who will get 1,2,3rd place. The athletes should get a small margin from the total price that went to betting

[@Habscodes]

Usain bolt dominance brought me tracks and field😢

[@malligrub2516]

People like seeing speed differences ie the fastest footballer leaving normal guys behind. Just watching 8 sprinters who are all fast and look the same relative to each other is not actually that exciting unless you have Bolt level athletes running impossible times

[@Kumbuso]

Bro cooked

[@WallyMcW]

Sprinting is only one aspect of a sport. If any athletic event should be more popular it's the Decathlon.

[@malligrub]

No way this is feasible if these athletes are always aiming for the Olympics and World Champs. Nothing else really matters that much apart from tapering your training to peak at the next upcoming major. Only the journeymen sprinters just trying to make a living would be interested in a regular week to week competition. The key is making the major meets mini Olympic style comps with massive promotion set up at the right times so they fit in to the Athlete's preparations for the Olympics and World champs. The idea of professional footballers being allowed to run at these events is comically stupid - their professional clubs pay them tens of millions of dollars/year to perform and won't even allow them to play International football games for their own countries let alone recreational sprint race for shits and giggles.

[@magnopranckestrada]

Once per night is better, just like UFC

[@jabulanichaita4842]

They can't put much on something that takes less than 10 seconds

[@ben7260]

Yeah but it takes a lot of blood and tears to do an 100 meters in less than 10 seconds

[@OLCtv]

Oh u mean the final is 1v1 🤔

[@kaikenjr]

His voice is killing me

[@christof123]

You saying Usain Bolt made 100 million 😂

[@JohnDoe-ty6sv]

Worst recommendation ever! Nobody wants to watch a 1vs 1 sprint race. During the race guys switch positions and that is what adds excitement and to add to that the more people lose the more it compliments the winner. Awful.. remove this video.

[@swparsons]

Because it lasts only 10 seconds …

[@bruno1728]

So? Many mma fights have also lasted less then 10 seconds, doesnt stop them from making millions

[@OP-pe4yc]

​@@bruno1728 That's not on average though, while you can almost always expect sprinting to just end in 10 seconds.

[@NiklausStefansen-o1o]

I will make it more popular, once I remove Bolt...In one of interviews, I will ask World athletics to increase prize purses 1 million USD or EUR or GBP for world record 150 000 USD or EUR or GBP for normal victory...gold medal...without world record

[@ultrainstinctcannon4659]

i mean $9m is $9m

[@Latent-Insurgency]

Aight but be real he deserves way more than 9 million for his talent

[@thecaptain9212]

@@Latent-Insurgencyno athlete deserves any type of million a year for doing something that only benefits the rich

[@Latent-Insurgency]

@@thecaptain9212 bro the rich folk pay him, if we pay em less then the rich keep more

[@jambo5936]

Because it's not a team sport

[@BugattianVeyronian]

Not really. Some of the highest earning athletes are in boxing, golf and MMA.

[@jasoncruisejr]

Not enough talent! Usain Bolt made the sport what it is today imo. The only way it will be popular again is if you have someone dominating on a diff level. That will bring excitement

[@Samzo2002]

Yes very true. But the person that needs to dominate needs to do something unheard of like running 9 seconds, breaking 100,200,400,800 etc and dominate and have a charismatic personality - the sport will be popular and they’ll make millions. I also believe they need to get rid of outdoor training

[@augustusfreeman4032]

This has to be the worst video you've ever made. 😂

[@JotaroKUJO-qh9qx]

Icl if you have something better make your own vid. Athletics needs a revamp and athletes deserve better pay

[@bruno1728]

@@JotaroKUJO-qh9qx exactly, track is boring as it is. I think its a great idea. There is money to be made, athletes will adapt to the format.