Eugene Diamond League Entries Jakob Double, Athing Mu is Running?

Oh, ok. Probably national wildcard has priority and DL can grant global when no national spot taken by host country.

But where is detailed PDF!

Crazy that the US had 3 of the top 6 women at the World Championships and not one of them qualified for the Diamond League final. Why don't they run more Diamond League races? They are certainly fast enough to get in.

Mu has nothing but contempt for the DL. She is the perfect example of why you shouldn't give wildcards for athletes who do so little for the competition. In fact Coe has said he want to do more to encourage the elites to compete more and this is a strong counter-example. How many (non-final) DLs will Mu bother to do next year?

Yes she hasn’t shown up to one single one in Europe. Yet gets to run in the one in the US. Above others who have made the effort to travel and race.

Don't like to travel.

You almost got it. Decision makers are the local meet director for national wild cards and dl mgt for global. In this case Pre meet director.

You are right in that they could have picked Wiley, but they didn't. Given complete body of work they could go Mu, Ajee, Rogers, Akins, Edwards before getting to Wiley.

In 1500 they had Johnson, Mu, Hiltz, Wiley.

Both top choices accepted. Apparently, Wiley will do road mile in Riga.

Jakob is a global wild card added to the 3k/(5k dl points) final.

If USATF, meet directors, DL or Nike is pulling strings on behalf of any US athletes, why waste it on someone (other than Mu) running 800+? Several sprinters, hurdlers and field event athletes who need wild card or other special considerations are infinitely more deserving than “Team USA’s” pizz-poor distance corps.

Re: wild card entries

Why didn't the Pre meet organisers offer one to Josh Kerr immediately after he won in Budapest? He wasn't exactly shy about saying he didn't want to run Zurich just to get DL points and, arguably, that has contributed to his decision to not run the final. Or were they reserving wild cards for Americans and Nike athletes?

Is Cheptegei really racing the 3000m? Strange choice for an athlete that decided to skip the 5k in Budapest saying "i don't want ro get injured since i'm preparing for the Valencia Marathon".

I reckon Nike held him to his contract because so many others dropped out. None of the other medallists from Budapest are there (Katir and Krop), and the two fastest guys in the world over 3000 are also missing (Girma and Katir from their indoor run). Kiplimo injured as well. Cheptegei adds a bit of star power that the line-up lacks once you get past Jakob.

1 wild card per event. Idea for both local and int'l is to be able to generate more interest and excitement in host country and worldwide.

After some consideration this is rather absurd with these wildcards for DL finals.

Wildcards are maybe ok for global champs but here? Athletes travel, compete for points to qualify and then there could be just a wildcard for someone's favorite for final.

Also finals locations, limited to Switzerland, Belgium or USA like this year, make local/national wildcard not fair. There shouldn't be any wildcards. Maybe one for each track event granted by me :)

Cory McGee earned her spot in the final. what i would like to see, though, is Cory running a tactical race that allows her to get that sub 4 and not running to win from the gun

diamondleague.com / news/general/explainer-wild-cards-in-the-wdl-final/

Better late than never :):):)

"In case of victory, the national wild card will receive the full prize money, but will not receive the Diamond Trophy or be crowned Wanda Diamond League champion."

Maybe ok but rather a mess, really.

Also now we know why Athing Mu has not yet boarded the plane to her 2023 dream vacation location. She is just waiting to collect some pocket money for tips on this vacation :):):) Though Moraa is even more hungry while Hodgkinson likes vintage cars :):):) Also all of them have many siblings...

"In case of victory, the global wild card athlete will be crowned Diamond League champion and receive the Diamond Trophy, but will not receive full prize money."

Interesting, really, very interesting.

So, who has been given a wild card? I'm counting:

Lyles (though he might have made it after dropouts anyway)

Athing Mu (fair enough)

Cole Hocker

Sinclaire Johnson

Grant Fisher

Weini Kelati

Has anyone been granted a global wild card?

If athletes from the top eight choose not to take part and they invite lower ranked ones instead are those also considered wild cards? Or is there only ever one wild card in any event.

Ingebritsen global wild card in 3k/5k. The clout he has is quite amazing. He already had a 1500 changed to 2000. Now he has the 5k changed to 3k in the final.

also Laros men's mile Broeders men's pole vault.

randomly going back to the US for the Diamond League final after a month of all the Athletes being in Europe, is so misguided.