Damian Hall and Jasmin Paris are among a number of runners to sign a letter asking the organisation to ‘discontinue any commercial relationship’ with the oil company
A group of climate experts and high-profile runners, including Damian Hall and Jasmin Paris, are calling on European Athletics to drop Shell as a sponsor following the high profile branding at the European Indoor Championships.with 100 signatories, from Olympians to everyday club runners, was yesterday sent to European Athletics asking for this change to be made.
“Allowing athletes to be used as a billboard to promote a company like Shell, normalises a major polluter and gives them a social license to operate.” Among the athletes to sign the letter was U20 England runner Ellen Donald, who said: “As a young aspiring distance runner, I am appalled that European Athletics is willfully promoting Shell, a company whose reckless and destructive actions are already threatening the viability of athletics for young people worldwide, and are putting our hopes and dreams of a liveable future in jeopardy.”
Andrew Simms, co-director of the New Weather Institute, said: “Running is one of the best ways of experiencing the world, but major polluters like Shell are wrecking the climate that runners depend on. Oil companies are making ever more green claims while spending billions on drilling for more polluting fossil fuels. European Athletics letting itself be used as a billboard by Shell is like them blowing smoke in the face of their own athletes.
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