There are some in the Olympic core is just sports, as the athletics is your Tradition to the Play because of love. Hardly the world Cup is celebrated in the desert state of Qatar, is not fighting World Athletics, such as the world Association for this week i.e., on new fronts:
the Olympic marathon in the summer of the next heat debacle like to live in Doha, has moved the race from Tokyo to Sapporo.
running shoes called for by President Sebastian Coe also a decision in the matter. The latest model from the house of Nike, with the world record holder Eliud Kipchoge ran as the first person in the 42,195 km in under two hours, it seems, according to several studies in the division to fall “performance-enhancing drugs”. Allowed or not?
And then there are against the former coach Guru of the Oregon Project, Alberto Salazar, fresh allegations surfaced that not the favorable Image of the sport contribute. This time, it is important that he should at least have a young athlete is insulted, which relates to your weight.
communicated to the world Federation of clumsy?
Almost a storm of protest among athletes, the announcement of the Diamond, however, has triggered in the last days of the League disciplines by 2020. Not more the 200 m, 3000 m Steeple, Discus and the triple jump include: – look at first. The Meetings of the highest series will last only 90 minutes, the program will be streamlined, 24 subjects (12 men’s and women’s), instead of the previous 32 to form the core. Surveys of viewers, Online click-through rates, and studies should have spoken out against the four disciplines.
A second look at the decision, however, suggested that the world Federation has communicated the change is not very clever. Because both the 200m and the 3000m Steeple accounted for 10 of the 14 Meetings (each 5 men and women) in the 90-minute program, the prize money remains the same, but there is no final race. The technician hits it harder than the sprinters and runners: their disciplines in the context of the Diamond League only once at harvest. For more start-up opportunities you get in a newly created Continental Tour on the second highest level – so a demotion. However, annually is a debate as to which disciplines will receive the highest Status, it does not seem so far is also clear to all.
“it is Clear that all of your discipline to find the most attractive”
Christoph Joho and Andreas Hediger, Co-Directors of world-class Zurich to give such subtleties “are difficult to convey”. On the question of whether athletes at the be Decide have been involved, there Hediger to remember that “this Feedback is a little misleading”. “It is clear that everyone feels his or her discipline as the most attractive.” Joho, a member of the Board of the Diamond League, says: “There have been organizational, logistical and TV technical factors.” We waived the 200 m Diamond League discipline, “because a Sprinter starts, mostly over 100 m and 200 m, and in 2020, it is impossible for the Meetings, national Championships, Olympic Trials, and partly Continental title fight, with heats, semi-finals and Finals best out of riding”.
“We want a voice, and the time of the real changes is now.”Christian Taylor, triple jumper
Christian Taylor responded immediately. The outstanding triple jumper, twice Olympic champion and four-time world champion has immediately established “The Athletics Association”. Until yesterday, joined her several Hundred athletes in the world, as he writes on Twitter. He says: “The message is clear. We want a voice, and the time of the real changes is now.” They wanted to fight for the rights of the athletes, a place at the discussion table and have a say in which the sports take.
Hediger does not respect the protests, the excitement he understands, however, very. Some time ago, as the Prestige series have yet to “find a warm, Golden Four,” then “Golden League”, had always been in the fall determines which of the twelve disciplines included in the next season. “But now, since all of us are, also all have the feeling that you take away something to you.”
Instead of 12, but 14 Meetings, plus Final
While the Meetings are streamlined to 2020, but not the series. From the Plan of the “12 plus a Final” has now become “the Status quo (14) plus a Final”. With the Chinese Wanda Group, the Diamond League has found after a long time a title sponsor. Its condition is a second Meeting in China next to Shanghai. Therefore, it comes to two “English weeks”, each with three Diamond League Meetings in seven days. Joho is not out there, that this was ideal, and Hediger says: “For 20 years, trying to structure the calendar. Season 2020/21, there should be a unification with Windows for national Championships.”
That the protests of the athletes are silent up to then, little is likely to be. Because there will be other meets each season.
Created: 15.11.2019, 15:38 PM
