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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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Eugene: Provisional Entry Lists are Online
The provisional entry lists for the Prefontaine Classic meeting in Eugene (29th and 30th May) are now online.
Eugene: Fast is Back in the Pre Classic Women’s 100 Meters
The world’s fastest women from each of the last four years will meet in this year’s Prefontaine Classic 100 meters. This group features versatile performers who have won a total of seven IAAF Diamond Trophies across three events.
Oslo: Campbell-Brown to Debut in Bislett
One of the world’s most highly decorated female sprinters, Veronica Campbell-Brown, will make her long awaited first appearance in Oslo, when she competes in the Diamond League 100m at this year’s ExxonMobil Bislett Games on 11 June.
Rome: Fraser-Pryce, Pichardo and Stowers added to Golden Gala Fields
With just 10 days to go until the Golden Gala Pietro Mennea, organisers have revealed another handful of stars set to compete at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Rome on 4 June.
Paris: A possible record for Barshim and Bondarenko at MEETING AREVA
The air of the summits is set to blow in the Stade de France, on Saturday 4 July 2015, at the MEETING AREVA. In addition to Renaud Lavillenie, king of world pole-vaulting and a familiar face at the French stage of the IAAF Diamond League, two other athletes are making serious headway at very high altitude: Qatari Mutaz Essa Barshim and Ukrainian Bohdan Bondarenko. The two high-jump prodigies who, for the past two seasons, have been embroiled in a duel, could well smash the world record in the discipline - 2.45m by Cuban Javier Sotomayor on 27 July 1993 - and earn a place in the history books
Lausanne: Pichardo, Taylor, Storl, Felix, Perkovic will be present at Athletissima!
The 40th edition of Lausanne’s famous Athletissima meeting on July 9, an IAAF Diamond League meeting, will have a rematch between superstar triple jumpers Pedro Pablo Pichardo and Christian Taylor, announced the meeting organisers on Thursday (21).
Diamond Race Update after Doha and Shanghai
It was a weekend of old rivalries, surprise packages and huge opening statements as the 2015 Diamond Race got underway in Doha and Shanghai.
Oslo: Women’s Javelin back in Bislett
It has been 13 years, but finally the women’s javelin, one of the sport’s more traditional events, returns to Oslo’s Bislett stadium for the 50th anniversary ExxonMobil Bislett Games, the 6th stop of the 2015 IAAF Diamond League . Javelin has almost folklore status in Norway which has long been regarded as a “factory” for javelin throwers and competitors like Halse, Sunde, Danielsen, Pedersen and Thorkildsen quickly became household names in Norway.
Eugene: Men’s 5K a Pre Classic Specialty
The Pre Classic 5000-meter race has a history of producing fast races, including the only sub-13:00 times—five and counting--recorded on U.S. soil.
Ayana Steals the Show in Shanghai
The Shanghai IAAF Diamond League meeting on Sunday (17) was supposed to be about Bohdan Bondarenko and Mutaz Essa Barshim and their pursuit of the world record in the men’s high jump.