Noah Lyles just announced he's skipping the Diamond League final. I'm trying to convince him to change his mind.

Don't blame Lyles for bad WA scheduling - he's had great season. Worlds should be the DL final with possibly of one meet after like Zurich for those who want to redeem themselves.

What logic? Sorry have to tell you, there is no logic to your stance.

The guy is tired and has accomplished what he set out to do for the year. He should run himself into the ground to prove what? Please you?

He has made the call that works for him and I'm good with that.

Yeah, but adding a Diamond League trophy would be nice.

He actually is wealthy enough to turn that down.

for all we know adidas may be paying him more to not show up at a Nike sponsored meet.

Noah Lyles needs to recover then slowly peak for 2024 Olympics. Why should Noah Lyles give lesser athletes an opportunity post-W.C?

..he's also doing the Masonic symbol of silence on the graphic you have on this post and on the front page of letsrun. SO many athletes have no idea what he is doing...

This is the funniest post I've ever read on letsrun.

I was going to attend Eugene but now I am cancelling. Kidding. Do plan to go and don’t need to see Noah. The other sprinters are right there with him, impressive, he barely beat them. All accolades to him for his wins, but he’s not the only track star, not even the only sprint star. Kenny! Erriyon! Fred! And others from the world over. But I agree I think he is making a mistake. Must be all the put downs LR makes about Eugene.

Tracktown USA.

He’s basically said he thinks Eugene is horrible for high profile meets due to the lack of crowd, which makes Track look like no one cares, as it’s supposed to be the “Mecca”. This meet gets a lot of hours on NBC, and he doesn’t want to be running in front of a weak crowd. He might even be sending a message to USATF to get trials moved to a bigger city.

wild to see this one right after the one that says "don't talk down to him as if he's a teenager"

Last year after the time he ran in Eugene he could pretend something special might happen if he raced through the end of the season. This year there's nothing to pretend. He's threatening 20 flat more than 19.1 if he kept going. Vulnerable to more motivated guys.

Agreed. Noah has raced 21 times this outdoor season plus half a dozen races indoors. He raced 8 times in the last two weeks alone. He’s earned the right to call it a year.

Mu missing Pre as well, she is on vacation, must be exhausted from running in three meets this year.

The real issue this year is that the Diamond League final (both schedule and location) is just a total pain in the a$$ for everyone and top of the list are the athletes.

Like outside of the World Champs, the DL final should be the one event everyone wants to be at except there is a large and growing sentiment from athletes that they will either skip it or begrudgingly do it. When you even have US stars like "yeah no thanks" when it's in their home country, you know there is something wrong.

Like the world champs, this meet needs to be in Europe. I personally hated the 2 meet "final" they used to have in Zurich and Brussels, either alternate it between those meets or include 2 of either Paris, Monaco, London (I personally would leave Monaco where it is in the season because it's optimal for fast times) and have each venue host it once every 4 years.

This year it is 2 weeks too late and Eugene just isn't the place to have it. Now you have this meet the athletes don't want to do in a small stadium that they can never fill (maybe we will see some $15-20 tickets but it's Eugene, of course we won't) - just a big meh.

Btw I just checked the ticketing website - this is an example of how absurd this venue is. Tickets in sections 104-106 which is in the bottom tier down the back straight - $95-$125. That's for just Sunday. I have always defended Eugene as a venue because I guess it's my "home" stadium - but I'm done, can't defend the stadium and the now fentanyl zombie infested hobbitville of Eugene.\

So just like Noah, I'll watch this on the TV.

If you support the Diamond League, it makes a lot of sense to have Diamond League finals every year. There is $60k in prize money for the first 8 places. For a guy like Lyles, the $30k for first place isn't really that much so financially not much reason to appear and promote a Nike meet. But for non-World Champions, particularly Africans, it's a great payday. The whole point of Diamond League points and final is to get athletes to compete more often, rather than like Mu competing three times and then calling it a season. Next, I want to see WA do away with the bye for defending champions, which goes agains their campaign to get more athlete participation.

Weak sauce by Lyles.

Mu couldn't go if she wanted to, you have to run DL meets to make the DL final.