Sexual abuse by coaches happens distressingly often. My wife escaped an attempted assault -- not by a coach but a fellow runner. A year or two before I met her, she was part of her province's team at the South African cross country championships. After the post-race function, a much older male member of the team -- a well-known and respected masters runner (and a professor) chased her and tried to grab her. She was lucky enough to be able to escape (physically) unscathed.
The course was bizarre. Much of it was proper cross country, including running through a billabong, but the part with the tires (or tyres because it was in Australia) was weird, especially when the leaders were lapping slower runners. In a world championship event runners shouldn't be slow enough to be lapped when the course is 5 laps of 2km.
Also very strange that it was held in Bathurst. It is a long enough trip for most runners to get to Australia, but they then had to travel to the middle of nowhere -- Bathurst is about 100 miles from Sydney, the closest reasonably large city. The tires are probably because it is much more famous for a motor vehicle race, the Bathurst 1000: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathurst_1000.
I went to the 1984 Championships held at the Meadowlands in New Jersey. It was a blasthttps://www.runnerstribe.com/features/world-cross-country-classics-east-rutherford-new-jersey-usa-1984/
Sexual abuse by coaches happens distressingly often. My wife escaped an attempted assault -- not by a coach but a fellow runner. A year or two before I met her, she was part of her province's team at the South African cross country championships. After the post-race function, a much older male member of the team -- a well-known and respected masters runner (and a professor) chased her and tried to grab her. She was lucky enough to be able to escape (physically) unscathed.
The course was bizarre. Much of it was proper cross country, including running through a billabong, but the part with the tires (or tyres because it was in Australia) was weird, especially when the leaders were lapping slower runners. In a world championship event runners shouldn't be slow enough to be lapped when the course is 5 laps of 2km.
Also very strange that it was held in Bathurst. It is a long enough trip for most runners to get to Australia, but they then had to travel to the middle of nowhere -- Bathurst is about 100 miles from Sydney, the closest reasonably large city. The tires are probably because it is much more famous for a motor vehicle race, the Bathurst 1000: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathurst_1000.
I went to the 1984 Championships held at the Meadowlands in New Jersey. It was a blasthttps://www.runnerstribe.com/features/world-cross-country-classics-east-rutherford-new-jersey-usa-1984/
I don’t have to go farther than “too bad the US doesn’t prioritize”
I’ve attended 3 championships. Greatest running I’ve ever seen.