Cathal Dennehy: A bold idea, an unforgiving sport - Grand Slam Track's uphill fight for survival

Its founder, Michael Johnson, said he’s refusing to “give up on the mission of Grand Slam Track and the future we are building together.”

BOLD IDEA: Last week, Grand Slam Track filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy yet in announcing that news, it somehow still billed itself as the “global home of professional track competition”. Picture: ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP via Getty Images

First there was hope. Then there was scepticism. After that came sadness. And now there’s mostly anger.

It’s hard to overstate just how angry folk in athletics – from administrators to agents, athletes to fans – currently feel about Grand Slam Track, the upstart league that looks like the sport’s very own Fyre Festival: selling a vision that has gone down in flames.