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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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A Close up On… Monaco
The IAAF Diamond League comprises 14 world-class meetings across four continents. Every event has its own unique flavour and story…
Bondarenko Prevails at adidas Grand Prix in History's Greatest High Jump
The 10th-annual adidas Grand Prix played host to the greatest men's high-jump competition in history.
Diamond Race: Post Glasgow Update
The competitiveness of the IAAF Diamond League was underlined once again in Glasgow, as only one of the 11 Diamond Race leaders on show managed to pick up maximum points in the Scottish city.
Glasgow: Rudisha delivers, Ayalew leads the world over the barriers
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Glasgow: Double Dutch delight for Schippers
Dutch sprinter Dafne Schippers had a day to dream of at the Sainsbury’s Glasgow Grand Prix, part of the 2014 IAAF Diamond League, setting two national records in the space of two hours to light up a damp and cool Hampden Park stadium on Saturday (12).
Feature: Scottish win is dream come true for Lewis-Smallwood
You might think beating the reigning world and Olympic champion at an IAAF Diamond League meeting, and setting a personal best at the ripe old age of 35 is reason enough to be pleased with your day’s work. But for Gia Lewis-Smallwood her shock discus victory over Sandra Perkovic at the Sainsbury’s Glasgow Grand Prix on Friday was made so much sweeter simply because it happened in Scotland.
Glasgow: Hassan beats Aregawi again with a Meeting record
Just six days after setting a Dutch national record with 3:57.00 in Paris last Saturday, Sifan Hassan produced another fantastic 1500m finish to beat Abeba Aregawi in a meeting record of 4:00.67 at the Sainsbury’s Glasgow Grand Prix, an IAAF Diamond League meeting, at Hampden Park on Friday (11).
Glasgow: Perkovic beaten, Bartoletta goes close to her best
Sandra Perkovic’s perfect IAAF Diamond League record came to an end on a bright and breezy evening at the Sainsbury’s Glasgow Grand Prix as the 35-year-old Scotland-loving American, Gia Lewis-Smallwood, produced a personal best to end the Croatian’s winning streak on Friday (11).
Feature - Glasgow: Rudisha plots world lead
When you’ve broken one of the toughest world records in the book in an Olympic final and produced arguably THE performance of the games, you could be forgiven for believing that life will remain sweet forever.