Lately i happen to hear about the scrapping of Standard charted mumbai marathon (scmm),Airtel delhi half marathon, and Sunfeast bangalore 10k run, it wasn't exactly scrapping of mumbai marathon, instead it was about revenue shares between the present organizer procam international and AFI and it appears that AFI has demanded greater share in profits actually greater fee for endorsement of the event.
It appears that the rift between the two is likely to bring a stalemate on the event.
The Bangalore 10K race is the first casualty. The AFI has already withdrawn its support for the May 23 event. The reason cited is the timing of the event, which coincides with the ongoing Open National Championships in Kochi and the preparatory camp for the Commonwealth Games.
AFI general secretary Lalit Bhanot has warned the Indian athletes against participating in the race. “If any of them takes part, we will suspend them. They will not be allowed to take part in CWG,” Bhanot said.
“For now, we are concerned about the Bangalore race. However, the other races will soon come under the scanner. If things don’t get more transparent, we will see to it that the Mumbai as well as the Delhi events don’t take place,” Bhanot threatened.
Bhanot said they want to float fresh tenders to give new companies a chance to conduct the marathons. “Our general body has demanded that fresh tenders be issued to decide the cities that host the marathon and the company that organises it. Why just have two or three cities?”
However procam is not ready to budge and they are planning for retaliation.
Procam, however, maintains that the races were conceived and conducted by them. “After realising that Mumbai Marathon is a global hit, the AFI wants to make it their property. They want to auction off something they don’t own. We won’t let that happen,” said Vivek Singh, joint MD, Procam.
While Singh said that the AFI isn’t technically empowered to scrap the races — as they are recognised by the International Association of Athletics Federations — he realises that the AFI can cause hindrance by not allowing Indian athletes to participate. “If they do any such thing, we will use the full extent of the law to safeguard the races, which are our property,” he added.
The above information has been collected from www.dnaindia.com
However there is emergence of IISS (India International Sports Summit), and they are coming up with greater projects and i guess they need to wipe out competition and take over most of these successfully running events.Transfer of organizing may lead to hike in registration fee for athletes and overall a more costlier affair.
If Mumbai marathon were to be scrapped of , as standard chartered is already scrapping of from the greatest race what would be the future of it ? would it be run by another organizer with a different sponsor as in case of hutch delhi half marathon to airtel delhi half marathon.
Can any of these reduce the registration fee for the self financed runners.
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