World Athletics U20 Championships 2028*

It was an honor to be there in the stadium, the atmosphere was incredible. From my perspective, during the final the stadium was not as crowded as I expected. And there was no little Bigfoot mascot to buy as a souvenir.

It was great pleasure to see teenagers all over the globe doing so well and giving the best of themselves. As an athletics fan and mother of one of these athletes, who competed in Lima I would love to have full access to streamings and oportunity to share all track and field events, not just semi-finale and grand finale. Unfortunatelly our country did not buy rights to share live stream or show the evants on the national television, which I considered such a shame. Unluckily my son had a mishap during the qualifications and got injured so he couldn't finish his race. He was devasted, of course because his dreams ended without showing his best. For us, parents who watched this sudden moment of injury from another continent and not knowing for 15 minutes what was going on the track it was a nightmare. Regarding of injury it turned out it is a minor injury and we hope his recovery is about not to be very long when he return home to Croatia. At the end I just want to point it out one important thing, considering organisation. My son told me that there was a lot of injuries during the competition and the athletes had to wait in call room a pretty long time between the warm up zone and getting out on the track, which is not good for the athlete performance and also can be dangerous for its health. Nevertheless it was a lifetime experience for us and for him, for sure. And we enjoyed in athletics every minute.

I had a good time. Only one thing is wrong was getting tickets to the event.