Osaka 2007 IAAF World Championships - Broadcast Opening Sequence
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For the event's 11th iteration held from 24 August to 2 September 2007, the IAAF World Championships in Athletics came back to Japan with Osaka, this time, served as the main site. Being chosen by the IAAF in 2002 as the only remaining candidate, the meet was the city's effort to compensate itself from its unsuccessful bid for the 2008 Olympics, which, in 2001, was eventually given to Beijing.
Concernedly, the Championships were held during an unseasonably hot summer in Japan; temperatures earlier in the month had reached 40 °C, which resulted in several people killed. Temperatures had eased somewhat by the start of the track meet, but with early-morning temperatures around 30 °C and humidity high, the IAAF maintained a colour-coded advisory scale warning of the risk of heat stroke. Casualties of the heat were not as high as initially feared, but dozens of athletes failed to finish the race walks and marathons and a few did require medical treatment.
In the week running up to the Championships, there were issues regarding the low level of ticket sales – only 46% of seats had been filled by August 20. The Nagai Stadium was less than half full for the opening ceremony, and there were around 15,000 empty seats on the night of the men's 100m final race. A number of reasons were cited for the poor attendance, including high ticket prices (especially since the streets were lined during the marathons), the heatwave and the disappointing performance of the Japanese team; the hosts gained its only medal on the final day with a bronze for Reiko Tosa in the women's marathon.
Notably, these World Championships saw no world records being broken, but the event witnessed a number of significant personal and team achievements. The US dominated the overall standings ahead of Kenya and Russia, equaling its best ever medal haul (first achieved in Tokyo 1991) with 26 medals - 14 of them golds. While there is Team USA's Tyson Gay winning a hat-trick golds at Osaka, the event also saw the opportunistic growth of Jamaica's young trackster Usain Bolt, who sees these Championships as a mature wake-up call in his career after gaining two silver medals in the men's 200m and 4x100m relay races respectively.
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