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“Think of the shot put like the high jump”
Two-time Diamond Trophy winner and reigning Wanda Diamond League champion Joe Kovacs talks us through the ins and outs of the shot put.
“The steeplechase is unpredictable”
Two-time world championship bronze medallist and Wanda Diamond League stalwart on what it takes to master the 3000m steeplechase at the highest level of athletics.
“The Diamond League has so much value in an Olympic year”
In part one of our exclusive interview with Katie Moon, the reigning Olympic, World and Wanda Diamond League champion talks about her Diamond League debut in 2016, broken poles and battling the post-Olympic blues.
“The 5000m is all in the mind”
US Olympic bronze medallist Paul Chelimo on the tactical, technical and psychological challenge of winning a Wanda Diamond League 5000m race.
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Diamond Race Update
While records and season’s bests were, understandably, the main focus in Monaco last week, as the dust settles on one of the finest one-day meetings ever, attention turns to the implications of all those world class performances on the Diamond Race standings.
Dibaba is Finally A Master Of All Trades
No athlete sets out to be an indoor specialist. Not even athletes such as Genzebe Dibaba, who has broken multiple world indoor records and has won two world indoor titles.
Monaco: Genzebe Dibaba Breaks 1500m World Record in 3:50.07
The Herculis meeting ended, as is tradition, with a pyrotechnic show on the infield. But the real fireworks at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Monaco on Friday (17) came on the track about 50 minutes earlier.
Monaco: Press Conference Highlights
Renaud Lavillenie arrives at Monaco’s Herculis meeting in unfamiliar circumstances. Never before has the five-time Diamond Race winner been beaten at two IAAF Diamond League meetings in a row.
Monaco: Mouth-Watering Clashes on Tap
Over the past few years, Monaco’s Herculis meeting has earned a reputation as one of the best IAAF Diamond League meetings in the world. Judging by the startlists, this year’s edition on Friday (17) looks set to match – and possibly even exceed – the excitement witnessed earlier this season in Lausanne, Paris and Eugene.
A Close-Up on Monaco
If there’s one place in Europe that athletes want to race at this time of year, it’s Monaco. Meeting Herculis, the 10th stop for the IAAF Diamond League in 2015, has developed a reputation in recent years for producing white hot competition and incredible performances from the participants lucky enough to compete.
Diamond Race: Storl's winning streak could break North American stranglehold
Shot putter David Storl could secure the Diamond Trophy with a victory in Monaco. The German would become the first European Diamond Race winner in his event, and crown what has been an extraordinary year of success.
Stockholm: World and Olympic champion Shelly-Ann Fraser Pryce confirmed
With just over two weeks until Stockholm BAUHAUS Athletics, it was announced that the world’s fastest woman is coming to Stockholm. Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce is the reigning World and Olympic 100m champion, who has recorded three of the five fastest times in the world over the distance this year. The 100m at Stockholm BAUHAUS Athletics on Thursday 30 July will be a lightning quick finale to a star studded evening.
Diamond Race Update
With just three IAAF Diamond League meetings remaining before the September finals in Zurich and Brussels, now is a good time to be leading the Diamond Race.
Feature: It Takes Two To Make a Thing Go Right
It became increasingly clear during Thursday’s outstanding IAAF Diamond League meeting in Lausanne’s Stade De La Pontaise that something very interesting is going on in the men’s field events.