{
  "id": 760239,
  "title": "Not enough bums in Brum: Why so many empty seats at European Athletics Championships?",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/13/not-enough-bums-in-brum-why-so-many-empty-seats-at-european-athletics",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-08-13T10:06:42.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "City AM",
    "slug": "city-am",
    "url": "https://www.cityam.com/not-enough-bums-in-brum-why-so-many-empty-seats-at-european-athletics-championships/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Britain loves sport yet ticket sales for the European Athletics Championships in Birmingham have been slow. Ed Warner wonders why. British sport has a capacity problem or a bandwidth one, depending on which way you want to look at it. Too many seats in too many venues with too few bums to fill them. Or [...]",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}