Glasgow marks one year to go to World Athletics Indoor Championships – Eilidh Doyle announced as event ambassador    

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Glasgow marks one 12 months to go to World Athletics Indoor Championships – Eilidh Doyle introduced as occasion ambassador

One 12 months out from the World Indoor Championships in Glasgow, 1-3 March 2024, the organizing committee made an thrilling announcement, naming Eilidh Doyle because the championships ambassador.

Internet hosting the occasion reaffirms Scotland’s and Glasgow’s place as world-leading occasions locations. The World Athletics Indoor Championships, held each two years “offers three action-packed days of intense competitors, in an intimate enviornment the place followers can witness the uncooked athleticism and expertise of most of the world’s greatest athletes at shut vary”. For as soon as the advertising blurb is just not an exaggeration.

Glasgow efficiently hosted the European Athletics Indoor Championships in 2019, and World Athletics will now carry its 2024 championships to the identical enviornment. Glasgow additionally hosted athletics within the 2014 Commonwealth Video games and the Diamond League the identical 12 months. Moreover, the 2024 championships tackle added significance because it falls throughout the qualification interval for the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games, and with athletes honing their preparations for this vital 12 months forward, as much as 700 opponents from greater than 130 nations are anticipated to participate.

World Athletics President Sebastian Coe stated: “What makes the World Athletics Indoor Championships distinctive is the intimacy of the competitors. The followers actually rise up near the world’s greatest athletes and may recognize simply how superb their performances are. That creates an extremely thrilling environment for athletes and followers alike. I’ll always remember the finale to the latest World Championships in Belgrade, the place Ivana Vuleta delighted her dwelling crowd with victory within the lengthy bounce and Mondo Duplantis introduced the home down by breaking the world pole vault file – one thing that Glasgow followers additionally skilled from Mondo in 2020. Glasgow has a high quality file of internet hosting nice athletics occasions, from the 2014 Commonwealth Video games to the 2019 European Indoors, so we already know this can be an distinctive cease on the journey to the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games.”

So no strain on Laura Muir, Josh Kerr, Jake Wightman, Neil Gourley, and so on to ship then!

Eilidh Doyle competed in each the 400m hurdles and 400m and featured as an everyday member of the GB & NI 4x400m relay group amassing an total tally of 17 main worldwide podium locations. She memorably received silver on the 2014 Commonwealth Video games in Glasgow and received quite a few World and European indoor medals together with silver on the 2019 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow.

Talking on the occasion, Doyle stated: “I’m thrilled to be introduced as ambassador for the championships, it’s a actual honor. I’m excited that, in addition to selling the occasion, I can be contributing to the occasion steering group, guaranteeing that the operational plans put in place meet the wants of the athletes, and creating the best atmosphere to allow them to compete at their best.

“Glasgow and Scotland have at all times been dedicated to innovation and delivering sport-focused, athlete-centered occasions, which is why athletes love to return right here, so I’m positive Glasgow will step up but once more, taking the 2024 World Indoors to the subsequent stage. I do know from competing on the Emirates often that the environment can be unbelievable, so I urge all athletics followers to preregister for tickets whereas they will!”

Additionally unveiled at the moment was the occasion’s new model mark, created by the Scottish design company Model Oath. Sitting throughout the World Athletics model define, it brings a Scottish taste to the occasion with a recent twist to the nation’s iconic emblem the thistle.

The flower head, which is represented by the working monitor lanes, sits on a diamond tartan sample additionally reflecting the Enviornment’s geometric structure, all underpinned by the traditional victory pose with arms aloft, common to sport in any respect ranges, as winners cross the end line.

Vivid, youthful colours have been chosen for the mark, with the ruby pink tones linking to town’s Folks Make Glasgow model and the inexperienced representing the occasion’s dedication to sustainability.

The World Athletics Indoor Championships Glasgow 2024 can be delivered by Glasgow Life on behalf of Glasgow Metropolis Council, by way of a partnership with the Scottish Authorities, Occasion Scotland, UK Sport, and UK Athletics.

Assembly the aspiring younger athletes on the Emirates Enviornment, Tradition Minister Neil Grey stated: “Glasgow is world-renowned as an unbelievable host metropolis. It’s implausible that town and its folks will as soon as once more be within the worldwide highlight subsequent 12 months. Internet hosting this occasion demonstrates that Scotland stays the Good Stage for occasions, which carry financial advantages and wider optimistic impacts, resembling encouraging folks to take up sports activities and get extra energetic.

“With about 5,000 seats per session, tickets can be vastly widespread and are anticipated to promote out shortly so I’d advocate that individuals pre-register now for tickets so that they don’t miss out once they go on sale later this 12 months.”

Bailie Annette Christie, Chair of Glasgow Life stated: “We want to thank World Athletics for putting their belief in Glasgow and its occasion companions. We’re delighted to be internet hosting the World Athletics Indoor Championships subsequent 12 months for the primary time in Scotland and the third time in the UK. Acknowledged as one of many world’s friendliest cities, and named European Capital of Sport for 2023, we look ahead to welcoming athletes, officers, and spectators alike from throughout the globe to Glasgow and creating extra thrilling sporting highlights.

“Glasgow has a confirmed monitor file of internet hosting world-class occasions, and ten years on from the 2014 Commonwealth Video games, now we have bold plans for the longer term. Attracting guests to our fantastic metropolis, reaching a worldwide television viewers, and creating thrilling alternatives for our communities to have interaction with, occasions just like the World Athletics Indoor Championships 2024 are serving to us obtain our imaginative and prescient of harnessing the ability of sport and bodily exercise to alter lives for the higher.”

Ian Beattie, Chair of UK Athletics and Co-chair of the WAIC Glasgow 24 Steering Group stated: “UKA have been extremely proud to be awarded the chance to host the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships and with only one 12 months to go it’s thrilling to see such nice progress in preparations has been made.

“World Athletics confirmed confidence in Glasgow and within the UK to host this prestigious world athletics championships and this time subsequent 12 months we are going to as soon as once more be demonstrating our capability – working alongside our companions – to ship superb occasions.

“We’re wanting ahead to welcoming spectators to the implausible Emirates Enviornment the place we all know they are going to expertise a superb World Athletics Indoor Championships.”

Paul Bush OBE, VisitScotland Director of Occasions, stated: “Scotland is likely one of the greatest locations on this planet to expertise occasions and we’re wanting ahead to welcoming athletes, officers, and followers to Glasgow in a single 12 months’s time for the World Athletics Indoor Championships.

“The championships be a part of an enviable portfolio of main occasions to be hosted throughout the nation over the past 10 years and can reinforce our repute as a world-leading vacation spot and the right stage for occasions.

“As we speak’s unveiling of the model mark and the announcement of Eilidh because the championships ambassador is the beginning of many thrilling milestones to return over the subsequent 12 months and we look ahead to persevering with to work with World Athletics and our companions to ship a really memorable occasion for everybody.”

Esther Britten, Head of Occasions at UK Sport, stated: “The World Athletics Indoor Championships are an unbelievable alternative for Glasgow to as soon as once more showcase itself on the world stage. Ten years on from internet hosting the 2014 Commonwealth Video games, town has used the platform to ascertain a broad, various portfolio of profitable occasions. The WAIC24 affords the right alternative to construct on the sporting, financial, and social legacy of the previous decade and present Glasgow’s ambitions for the longer term.

“We’re grateful for the continued assist from The Nationwide Lottery, who allow us to ship showpiece occasions like WAIC24 to communities throughout the UK.

“I look ahead to watching the championships and I’ve little question followers from Glasgow, Scotland, and past can be handled to an array of extraordinary sporting moments from among the world’s greatest athletes.”