World championship ‘crotch cams’ rolled back after athletes’ complaints

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  • Athletes in Doha say new camera angles are intrusive
  • Dina Asher-Smith says pictures ‘weren’t very flattering’

With cameras in the starting blocks peering up the legs of athletes into their eyes, television viewers have been taken closer to the action than ever before at the world championships – and it is a little too close for some athletes.

“I’m not too keen about it because it’s kind of invading my private space in a sense,” said South Africa’s Akani Simbine, who finished fourth in the men’s 100m final. “Being in the blocks is one of the athlete’s sacred spaces and that’s the point where you just want to be alone and be free. You have a camera in your face and you don’t really want to have a camera in your face.”

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Written by Associated Press
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World championship ‘crotch cams’ rolled back after athletes’ complaints

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