Diamond League Rabat 1500m

Correction Sadiki was not apart of goofed start but zeleke was and ran 334. But it’s crazy to me in the highest league in the sport that sht like this happens

Yup. Idiot announcer said Sadiki as well. Gressier and Habz even worse starts.

All good. Was still a great race to watch. Wightman is looking dangerous. He's on par with Kipsang now. Wonder what his last lap was..

Would be awesome to see him PR again this year and get into the 3:28s

It's just considered a Appreciation Tour for international elites. Like a the NFL Pro Bowl you get a T-shirt, small appreciation fee, and free travel. The only ones that I liked were at the world class cities, Frisco, L.A., Tokyo, ...

55.45 as per clip above.

That's for the field, but Wightman was pretty close at the bell so around 55.2 for him?

I believe it was 55.xx. Last 300m was 40.xx. Definitely had a nice gear shift.

Let’s not go overboard on Wightman - it’s a strong race indicating 3:31 fitness, but Kipsang had a similar big finish in a 3:31.01 win at altitude and beat Heyward by a similar margin in a bad race by his standards at Pre.

It’s the diamond league. The only time other than championships that track is on tv

It was really noisy in the stadium and the gun didn't sound very loud tbh. It was an odd start! They seemed to stand there looking confused.

Some poor girl was left frozen on the starting blocks in the women's 100m.

It was so noisy in the stadium that you couldn't hear the gun. I like that problem.

They said there were 25K there and the stadium didn't look much bigger than that.

I think that "closed", loud atmosphere lends excitement to the meet.

I always think that meets like the ATL Meet from Nashville Sunday would be more exciting in a smaller more "enclosed" stadium.

We have a few local high school stadiums that hold about 5k-7k filling both sets of bleachers with buildings and trees closing them off.

Big high school meets in those stadiums get that loud exciting atmosphere.

She never even came to the set position. She must not have heard the set call, much less the gun. I like the idea of a boisterous crowd, but a little pause for the athletes to hear the commands is needed.

I noticed that. It seems that she would see everyone else coming to set and, if nothing else, put her arm up and then say that she couldn't hear.

That must be awful to get a shot at a Diamond League Meet and have it end that way.

Wightman is only going to get better as the season goes.

That gear change and finishing speed is dangerous in championship races