This will start on 1 May 2019 (instead of 1 July 2019), to include more international competitions such as the IAAF Diamond League, and end on 29 June 2020. Apr 23rd, 1:15pm. I have not seen this course first hand yet… but the athletes times and comments after the recent shorter race held on the same loop course left me with the distinct feeling that it was a “slow hilly course”, especially if one has to do that same loop 4X!! Wanda Diamond League announces new provisional 2020 calendar. Most dramatic was news that the 3000-meters will be the longest track event on the schedule. The changes will certainly affect them—and maybe not in a good way.Rankings are a strong feature in many individual sports like tennis and golf, where the world No. A race with pace makers for at least 18-20 miles! "This will start on May 1 instead of July 1 to include more international competitions such as the IAAF Diamond League, and end on June 29, 2020," says the release. There is no “B” standard in 2015, but there are a variety of alternate qualifying methods. What’s more, the number of DL meetings will be cut from 14 to 12 with only one meeting per week leading to a single, one-day Final, rather than the two-meets that currently end the season. Athletes will have more opportunities to achieve the Olympic entry standards under the new system, which extends the qualification window by two months for most events. The new system is trying to give rankings similar importance in track and field and make them an equal method of qualifying.The distance has become plagued by rabbits, and an addiction to world record attempts at Diamond leagues, which blows the field up from the start. With the cutoff deadline for the ranking system falling after both the U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials and Track and Field Trials, there will be much confusion at both events as athletes, fans, and media try to work out who is eligible to compete in Tokyo.The U.S. Olympic Trials remains one of the great spectacles in all of sports, with dreams realized and crushed in every event. The highest athletes on world rankings will be offered the remaining places.Runners at shorter distances were riled up by the new qualifying standards.When the rankings are better understood and eventually used as the main qualifying method for global championships, they should encourage more head-to-head competition on the sport’s professional circuit. Featured. The Wanda Diamond League encompasses 24 Diamond Disciplines, following a championship style model. The qualifying standards for next year’s IAAF World Championships in Doha, taking place from September 27 to October 6, have been announced by the sport’s world governing body.
Given the lack of air time, sponsors will be far less likely to invest in such athletes, meaning their livelihoods will inevitably be put at risk.This is a legitimate concern, given that athletes rely on agents to get into the best races, such as invitation-only Diamond League meets and World Marathon Majors.But the rankings are not not just based on your best time during the designated qualification period.
Olympian Molly Huddle took to Twitter to voice her disapproval. Wanda Diamond League to postpone May meetings. It remains championship event so 5/10,000m athletes will need to race it.”Each event in Tokyo will also have a designated quota—lowering the number to 45 athletes in both men’s and women’s 1500-meter, 27 in each 10,000-meter race, and 80 in each marathon—with about half the places filled by athletes who achieve the new, stricter time standards. The record incentive is one of the only ways Diamond leagues have tried to make the event “sellable.” This feeds doping.With Atlanta being billed as a hilly course, and high humidity expected, it’s unlikely the Marathon Trials will produce fast times.