Michael Johnson and Steve Gira ate lunch at Soho’s house in Malibu two years ago, looking at the Pacific Ocean when they first made a plan for what became the Grand Slam route.
“He gave me this idea,” Gera, who became a coach and director of sports for several NFL teams and Barcelona, said. “I had the moment of ‘Aha’, Oh God, there is actually nothing between the Olympics that the best competition on the basis of constantly. But this sport is so famous in the Olympics.
Grand Slam Track starts this week at Kingston, Jamaica with a bold promise to reinforce sports, or at least part of it. An elite stadium has been registered for the new league for tracks – there is no field event – which will play in Kingston, Miami, Philadelphia and Los Angeles until April, May and June.
Johnson is the face of the project, the legend of the sport that in Strangely enough, his profile is now much more in the UK, which has worked as a common expert for the BBC, which is a return to American consciousness.
The founder’s co-founder is also serious about the sport and in their greed with optimism. “We brutally focus on having the youngest fans in any sports league in the world in the next five years,” Gira told him. Independent. “That’s our northern star.”
They have set the ground for success, have raised more than £25 million in the budget and promised £77,000 for winning athletes. They have established dates and places in a crowded calendar, and have attracted a Litni from the Olympics with the American track stars Gabi Thomas and Kenny Bednarke who compete with British recorders Dina Asser-Smis and Zharinel Hughes.
Television rights have been sold to the main broadcasters, which covers more than 100 regions, TNT Sports hosts the program in the UK. Grand Slam Track also has a betting with Sports Tech Stats Perform, based in Chicago.
But the difficult part is to change an interesting idea for constant success, an idea that builds its own story and glory, which promotes value and meaning with Giopard to combine it. It is difficult to do it for sports benefits, especially new efforts such as this.
The Saudi-backed golf had a strain and investment player to go with television contracts and water-eyed visual business, but his desire is to some extent when he is fighting for the world tours for space and stars. Why is the Grand Slam tracks different?
While some of the big names have registered, there are also many names. One of the most prominent unseen is the 100-meter male Olympic champion, Noah Lills, who asked the model in a recent podcast episode. “We’ve been outside for two months and I’m watching – Who are your external sponsors, who are your non-track and field sponsors? I want to hear, is there an hour’s contract?”
But Jera is confident, indicating a positive working relationship with the World Executive Board, which President Koya has announced his general support for innovation in the sport. Here, the civil war is not like a golf, it seems. World Athletics has awarded the official Grand Slam status, which is called a convicted calendar.
And that occasion is that Gera insists it is a format that participates young fans. They instructed a thorough investigation not only what the sports fans wanted to see more than what, but other sports fans such as golf and tennis need to see to be attracted to sit down and watch sports outside the Olympics.
The answer was mostly the stars, mostly, the head competition, so he sees the format of athletes who have been combined for an eight-member group that has runs two distances:
Televisions’ experiences have been given with direct display data, which Gira hopes to bring about in a new way.
The expulsion of field events has sparked criticism, but Johnson has been clear in his answer. “I’m going to save what I think I can save,” he said. “I think I can pick up the track, I don’t think I can save the track and the field.”
There were discussions about the series in a British city, London and Birmingham in the framework, but British sports were concerned about the cost of the event without guaranteeing a return, while Gerra says the first year in the United States will make life simpler.
“The mayor’s office in London was very good,” Gira said. “We had discussions with a couple of different cities across the UK (but) that was a decision we were to only focus on the strict package of our performances in the first year.
That depends on whether Johnson and Jerra can make the Grand Slam track a successful story. Sports requires a fire and argued that the concept proves more than another whisper in the sports scene.