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World Cup sans the stars
HAVANA, Sept 25: The future of the athletics World Cup seems secure despite mounting criti
clsm from administrators concerned about an already overcrowded schedule, reports Reuter.
Only 11 gold medalists from this year's Barcelona Olympics have opted to make the Vip to Havana for the three-day clght-team'competitions starting today.
But although the absence of so many of the world's elite athletes has clearly embar rassed the International Amateur Athletics Federation (IAAF) Officials said on Thursday the Cup was likely to continue.
'The general opinion is that we have it in the years in which there's no Work! Championships or Olympics," one senior officials said.
The World Championships are now staged every two years with the next scheduled for Stuttgart, Germany in 1993. The Cup would continue its present four-year cycle with the next due in 1994.
The officials said bids for the next World Cup had been received from Birmingham in England, Singapore and South Africa.
Earlier IAAF president Primo Nebiolo tola a news conference the further of the Cup was in the hands of the
federation's governing council. "We have time to decide." Neblolo said.
Although Neblolo, predictably, said he believed this year's Cup would be a great success, the number of defections by top athletes and the mounting criticism from administrators must be concerning the IAAF.
The timing of the event is nonsensical and the World Cup should be scrapped," German Federation officials Horst Blattgerstc said.
Ofian Cassel, executive director of the Athletics Congress, the US governing body, said the Cup could have a future but not tn its present form. "Maybe under a different philosophy," Cassell said.
Chief British coach Frank Dick expressed concern at the increasing number of IAAF competitions.
"Quite clearly three's a move to saturate the calendar," Dick said. "It Is time for us to rationalise the international competitive calendar.'
The world is quite different from the world in which the World Cup was born, for goodness sake."
At least one person made it perfectly clear on Thursday that he was more than happy with this year's edition of the Cup.
Olympic TOO metres champion Linford Christie said he would still have travelled to the Caribbean even if he had been named as a team reserve.
"I wouldn't have missed this trip for anything," the British team captain told reporters. "1 think the people who have missed this trip have missed
outpn a lot"
Tm not in that kind of same shape as I was at the Olympics. I'm not going to say I m going to run 10.0."
Tm not In that kind of shape. Nobody goes out to finish second but If I don't win, who cares ?” Christie, who admitted he was exhausted after a long hard year, could run In three events here.
European champion John Regis has dropped out of the 200 metres after bruising his ribs while jet skiing, giving Christie a chance for the sprint double.
And depending on his performance in the 200, Christie could then take part in the 4x400 metres relay, the final event of the competition on Sunday night.
One concern for the organisers has been a tropical depression off the Cuban coast plus the start of the rainy season here.
A fierce’ rain storm lashed Havana on Wednesday afternoon. flooding the streets and slowing traffic to a crawl.
A similar storm on any of the three days of competition would almost certainly force organisers to cancel the programme for the evening, causing yet another headache for the IAAF.