This Week In Track and Field: Rome Diamond League Recap + World Athletics Test Events Mostly Flop At Track Lab
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🗓️ 2 September 2024
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
This week, Chris Chavez, Paul Hof-Mahoney and Preet Majithia recap the Rome Diamond League and the Track Lab event in Switzerland.
Rome Diamond League
– The women's steeplechase saw Winfred Yavi come heartbreakingly close to a world record, missing by just .07 seconds.
– Faith Kipyegon extended her unbeaten streak in the women's 1500.
– In the men's 5000m, Hagos Gebrhiwet outkicked a loaded field to win after the world record attempt fizzled out.
– Letsile Tebogo dazzled in the men's 100, celebrating early and still securing a win in 9.87 seconds.
– Ryan Crouser continued his dominance in the shot put, recording six throws over 22 meters, including a meet-record 22.49m.
Track Lab
This unique event introduced new and modified disciplines, including a completely new mile steeplechase and adjusted sprint formats with zero-tolerance reaction times. The field events saw significant changes with the pole vault measuring being changed, the long jump featuring an extended take-off zone and the javelin throw only measured if it improved on previous attempts.
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| 1:31.9 | support of all things, Sidious Mag. It is September 2nd. It's Labor Day in the United States. Most people are off for work, but we are not. We are here to recap everything that took place at the Rome Diamond League. We also had this odd track meet taking place in Switzerland called the track lab where they tested out a bunch of world athletics is new concepts that they've been trickling out over the past couple months, |
| 2:13.2 | everything from that long jump takeoff zone to the steeple chase mile. |
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