I too read Marcus Pye's column last Thursday, although I believe he speaks with good intentions, I don't think this initiative will work until the organizing clubs are staring bankruptcy in the face.
They are profit making companies, and will never take decisions which will detract from their profits. Before we see organising clubs taking steps for the good of the sport we will have to return to the situation of the seventies when events were organised by clubs staffed only by volunteers. The only volunteers left in the sport now are the marshals and the competitors.
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