5 April 2017

IFSC are indeed "victim of their success"

Imagine what the sponsors at Meiringen and other World Cups will think when, according to the record negative social media comments, the audience might drop by more than 90 %. What will the IFSC general sponsors think, as well as, the sponsors for the athletes that are supposed to travel around the world to get good exposure? Will any eliminated athlete volunteer for co-commentating the semi and final? The climbing social media is setting some kind of record when it comes to criticism. You can understand that something is dead wrong when, Austria Climbing, the organizer of the World Champion 2018, has asked us all to make our voice heard. Bare in mind that the Boulder World Cup 2017 is about travelling: Europe, China, China, Japan, USA, India and Europe. This just might be a good opportunity for the gyms and companies like Adidas to put together an European Cup or World League, including free live-streaming, that might become equally important as the IFSC Boulder World Cup. Three weeks ago, the IFSC President Marco Scolaris, was very concerned about the future of IFSC during an official press conference. "We expect to convince IOC, but not only, that hopefully before 2020 that we deserve some help, because the sport is growing too fast and we do not have the resources to manage the sport. If it goes on in this way and our income does not increase and therefore we are not able to hire additional human resources. We will become victim of our success."
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