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PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A World Championship can look successful from the outside while the sport behind it is quietly losing control.What happens when a sports federation brings in a commercial partner to provide the money, expertise and operational capacity it cannot build alone Sometimes, exactly what everyone hoped for.And sometimes the organisation responsible for protecting the sport discovers that it is still accountable for the championship, but no longer has the information, authority or practical ability to protect it.Drawing on his firsthand experience of helping bring international obstacle course racing championships to Ireland, including the 2026 OCR World Championships, Sergej Dikun examines how a seemingly sensible commercial partnership can gradually turn into dependency.How NOT to Run a World Championship is not an argument against private companies in sport. Commercial partners can bring capital, technology, marketing, production expertise and professional event delivery that developing federations desperately need.The question is what the federation must never give away.Through real experiences, organisational failures and the lessons that followed, the book explores: - how responsibility can become separated from authority- why access to data and information is a governance issue, not an administrative detail- when outsourcing turns into dependency- why an organiser should never become impossible to replace- how commercial and sporting interests can coexist without either side surrendering its purpose- why critical functions must be 'two deep' in people, knowledge and access- how to build partnerships in which autonomy is earned rather than simply handed over- how to measure a championship by what the sport still owns after everybody goes home- why the true legacy of an event is not the size of the crowd, but what remains on Monday morningAt its heart is one principle: Every decision made by a governing body should leave the sport capable of surviving if every commercial partner disappeared tomorrow.Written for federation presidents, board members, sports administrators, event organisers, volunteers and anyone responsible for the long-term stewardship of an emerging sport, this is a practical examination of what can happen when good intentions meet weak governance.Because the real test of a partnership is not how impressive the championship looks while the partner is there.It is what remains when they are gone.…