Explain this to me please wrote:
The Diamond League wrote:
2021 will also see the introduction of a new award for “Most Consistent Athlete”, to honour those who delivered consistently excellent performances throughout the Wanda Diamond League season. Ten athletes will receive the award, with a male and female winner respectively in the sprints, hurdles, distance events, jumps and throws. Each winner will receive US$20,000 in prize money.
Can someone please explain how they are going to determine this? What's the criteria? Is it published anywhere? Did anyone even know this existed? Like what's the point of having it if you aren't going to promote it ahead of time to get people to run more events?
Plus I can't believe it pays $20k when the win is $30k.
https://www.diamondleague.com/news/general/six-things-to-know-about-the-wanda-diamond-league-final/
looking more closely at the diamond league standings:
https://www.diamondleague.com/fileadmin/IDL_Zurich/user_upload/QualificationStanding_post_Brussels_2021.pdfi suspect it will be given to the highest point total in each category, prob the wins as a tiebreaker
Mens
Sprints - Bednarek - 38 pts, 1st/1st/2nd/1st/2nd
Distance - McSweyn - 41 pts, 3rd/2nd/1st/4th/2nd/1st
Hurdles - dos Santos - 37 pts, 2nd/2nd/1st/2nd/1st
Jumps - Duplantis - 44 pts, 2nd/1st/1st/4th/1st/1st
Throws - Walsh - 28 pts, 1st/1st/4th/2nd
Womens
Sprints - Ta Lou - 49 pts: 28 pts (100m), 3rd/4th/1st/5th/4th; 21 pts (200m), 2nd/2nd/2nd
Distance - Kiyeng - 27 pts, 4th/1st/1st/3rd
Hurdles - Bol - 40 pts, 1st/1st/1st/1st/1st
Jumps - Spanovic - 31 pts, 1st/2nd/1st/1st
Throws - Perez - 30 pts, 1st/2nd/2nd/1st
most of these athletes competed at all of the DLs available with their event, or at least 6/7 or 5/7