sharkGu wrote:
It may be cool to bash WTC and the IM brand but it's an iconic brand that's become synonymous with this race distance. The other problem is losing 'Canada' from the event. How would people feel if the Boston Marathon became the 'Struggle Massachusetts'?
What crack have you been smoking.
The WTC is a corporate entity. It is owned by Providence Equity... The WTC that exists today is a HEDGE fund, running for profit races to eventually be sold for a large profit.
It is VERY much different that the WTC that started the races, etc.
Whether you like it or not this can be like the Yawkey family and trust finally selling the Red Sox to the Henry Group.
If there was a "big change" it was Graham Fraser getting tossed out on his a$$ by the WTC. He is the one who built up the race. He is the one that has been keeping it running. Fertig and Messick may put a corporate M-DOT on the race, but that is no different than when the naming rights to the Fleet Center passed to TD Bank North. Same Building. Same people inside. Different name on the outside.
The ouster of Fraser is the bigger issue, but so many people are part of the MDot cult, all they care about is whether there is a red M and really care less about the people behind the scene who make the race.
The same can be said for IM Mont Tremblant. It may have a Red M Dot next to the name, etc., but what made the race was Marc Roy and the people of Tremblant who bought into the race. The individual RDs have a lot more impact than the Franchise in the end