2014 IAAF Diamond League: Everything that you want to know about the DL but, were afraid to ask, release, deep thoughts by Larry Eder

The Diamond League is a collection of some of the best track and field meets in the world. I went ten of the fourteen in 2012, and will see how many I can visit in 2014. Last year, I was able to visit the Belgacom Van Damme Memorial this past fall. The crowd of 50,000 fans, the great races and the music show were fantastic!

Make sure you hit the Pre and NYC in US. I love Paris, the AREVA meet, and DL Galan in Stockholm. Each meet has its’ own special appeal, that is the beauty of the DL. This year, I am hoping to see Shanghai and Zurich, two that I have missed so far!

Here is the info on the 2014 schedule….

The IAAF Diamond League is delighted to announce the distribution of event disciplines for the 2014 season.

Commencing on 9 May 2014 in Doha (QAT), the fifth season of the IAAF Diamond League comprises 14 of the best invitational track and field meetings in the world. The meetings are spread across Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the USA, and compose the top tier of the IAAF’s global one-day meeting competition structure.

This series of 14 meetings, which began in 2010, showcases 32 event disciplines which are carefully distributed among the meetings.

In each of the 32 event disciplines there is a “Diamond Race” with points available throughout the 14-meeting season. Winners of each Diamond Race receive a USD $40,000 cash prize and a spectacular Diamond Trophy, but more importantly they will have shown season-long consistency to earn the unchallenged honour of being the world No.1.

Each of the 32 event disciplines is staged seven times with the top three athletes being awarded points at each meeting – four for the winner, two for second place, and one for third – with the exceptions being the Finals in Zurich (SUI) on 28 August 2014 and Brussels (BEL) on 5 September 2014, where the points are doubled.

See the ‘Related Documents’ panel on the right-hand side of this page to download the 2014 distribution of event disciplines in PDF format.

Get set for the IAAF Diamond League 2014!

IAAF

2014 Calendar
Doha, QAT – 9 May
Shanghai, CHN – 17 May
Eugene, USA – 31 May
Rome, ITA – 5 June
Oslo, NOR – 11 June
New York, USA – 14 June
Lausanne, SUI – 3 July
Paris, FRA – 5 July
London, GBR – 11-12 July
Monaco, MON – 18 July
Stockholm, SWE – 21 August
Birmingham, GBR – 24 August
Zurich, SUI – 28 August
Brussels, BEL – 5 September

For more on how the events are broken down, please download the two pdfs below!

http://www.iaaf.org/news/press-release/iaaf-diamond-league-2014-event-disciplines

Author

Larry Eder

Larry Eder has had a 52-year involvement in the sport of athletics. Larry has experienced the sport as an athlete, coach, magazine publisher, and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America's first sub-4 minute miler, was published in RW in 1983. Larry has published several magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. version of Spikes magazine. He currently manages the content and marketing development of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his daily pilgrimage with the sport, Larry says: "I have to admit, I love traveling to far away meets, writing about the sport I love, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, the most of anything I have ever done, except, maybe running itself." Also does some updates for BBC Sports at key events, which he truly enjoys.

Theme song: Greg Allman, " I'm no Angel."

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