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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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Paris: Near Miss For Dibaba, But Lavillenie Loses On Home Soil
In the end it wasn’t even a world-leading time for the year, but the Ethiopian pair of Genzebe Dibaba and Almaz Ayana threw almost everything they had at their assault on the 5000m world record in Paris on Saturday (4).
Paris: Adams Loses Her Gamble, And Her Winning Streak
Valerie Adams may have described her competitive comeback at the Meeting Areva in Paris today as something of “a lottery” yesterday, but even the 2014 World Athlete of the Year cannot have imagined the numbers would fall so hard against her at her first IAAF Diamond League outing of 2015 on Saturday (4).
Paris Press Conference Highlights
An array of world stars lined up to meet the media in Paris on Friday (3) ahead of the Meeting Areva Diamond League event at the Stade de France as the IAAF Diamond League continues after a three-week break.
Paris: Adams In Fighting Mood On Eve Of Return
The IAAF’s female athlete of 2014 Valerie Adams laid down the gauntlet to her shot put rivals on Friday (3), just 24 hours before she makes her first appearance of 2015 at the Meeting Areva IAAF Diamond League event in Paris on Saturday (4).
Paris: Lavillenie And Adams Look To Maintain Dominance
Two of the biggest names in world athletics are set to capture the crowd’s attention at the Meeting Areva in Paris on Saturday (4) when the IAAF Diamond League resumes after a two-week lay-off for various national championships and European team contests.
Stockholm: World 110m hurdles champion David Oliver confirmed
World 110m hurdles champion David Oliver will compete at the Stockholm Bauhaus Athletics meeting on 30 July where he hopes to notch up his second victory at the IAAF Diamond League meeting.
London: Sainsbury's Anniversary Games Ready To Raise The Bar
The world’s best high jumpers will be aiming for new heights when they compete at the Sainsbury’s Anniversary Games at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London on Friday 24 July.
A Close-Up on Paris
Has three weeks ever felt so long? With the last IAAF Diamond League meeting having taken place back on June 13th, the world’s best athletes finally return for meeting number eight of the 2015 season in Paris this weekend. Following national team appearances and trials for this summer’s World Championships, attention rightly turns back to the tricky business of securing Diamond Race points, with five Diamond League meetings taking place between July 4th and July 30th.
Monaco: World Champions Simpson, Perkovic And Holzdeppe To Star
A handful of world champions and Diamond Race winners will head to the Herculis meeting at the Stade Louis II on 17 July to compete at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Monaco.
Paris: Provisional Entry Lists Online
The provisional entry lists for the 2015 Meeting AREVA in Paris on Saturday, 4th July, are now online.