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Alex Ohanian, founder of the Athlos women-only event, plans to revolutionize track and field by making it more globally accessible and creating an exciting atmosphere, with ambitions for a bigger, better event in the coming years.
Serena William’s husband and founder of Athlos, the women-only event Alexis Ohanian has opened up about how they plan to revolutionise track and field.
The inaugural event was held at the iconic Icahn stadium in New York City and Ohanian hopes to host the event next year and in the coming years. He told Letsrun.com that if the New Yorkers loved the setting of the event, then they were on the right track.
He added that next year would be bigger and better, pointing out the need to have an accessible meeting for everyone in the world. Before launching the event, Ohanian explained that he did thorough research.
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He went online and found out that the main issue facing the sport was accessibility and as he looked for a media partner, he wanted a company that would make the event accessible to the whole world.
“I know how the track community feels about access, it’s a global sport and lots of people want to watch it, we should make it as easy as possible to see it. We are absolutely doing this again next year,” Ohanian said.
“Now the bare minimum is that this is the most exciting sporting event in New York sports and I wanted to capture like the US Open night match energy, I wanted to capture, if we could get a little bit of the New York like Knicks or Liberty playoff match energy and throw in a little bit of music festival energy.
“We have such a dynamic city, and I’m from Fort Green, I’m biased, but if you can pull off an event in New York and the New Yorkers say it’s the best, then you are doing something right.”
The event was headlined by triple Olympic champion Gabby Thomas and competing in the women’s 200m race, her first competition after the Olympic Games, she finished second behind Brittany Brown.
Three-time Olympic 1500m champion Faith Kipyegon was also in the mix, winning the 1500m race as Mary Moraa finished second in the 800m. Jasmine Camacho-Quinn claimed top honours in the women’s 100m hurdles with Marie-Josee Ta Lou-Smith winning the women’s 100m.
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