Oslo DL Official discussion thread. Live reaction show at 4:01 pm ET.

Huh??? What a confusing announcement. Really bothers me that bureaucracy stops the best from doubling... and now even showing up????

Anyway, Jakob I. prediction -- 3:48.56

Wow:

If everyone races and they do what they say they will do these athletes would be banished from Worlds. That is unless Tefera switches to the Dream Mile, which makes sense on numerous levels.

1500m: Tefera OUT, Lemi IN
5000m: Mengesha and Bekele OUT, not even sure who'd draw in (maybe they'd let Barega and Worku double)
3K ST: Wale OUT

Somewhat crazy to me that they would do this, but only Tefera and perhaps Wale (for bronze) would be a huge loss in terms of medal prospects.

Yeah, I'm thinking it's a miscommunication. Barega and Edris are both down to race the Paris DL on Sunday

Or the bluff is being called...? If all of the athletes/agents defy it, it's going to be hard to justifying banishing three guys from the 5,000, one from the 10,000, one from the 1,500 and one from the Steeple

You are forgetting the women Letesenbet Gidey and Gudaf Tsegay.

In Tokyo, Ethiopia only won 4 medals. So you are going to kick out 4 medal contenders because letting them run a 5000 a month out is too much?

What a joke.

w800
1. Keely Hodgkinson 1:57.1
2. Diribe Welteji 1:57.5
3. Natoya Goule 1:58.2
4. Laura Muir 1:58.4
5. Jemma Reekie 1:58.5

w5000
1. Gudaf Tsegay 14:19.4
2. Letesenbet Gidey 14:20.9
3. Dawit Seyaum 14:27.0
4. Eilish McColgan 14:31.2
5. Alicia Monson 14:32.6

m5000
1. Telahun Haile Bekele 12:58.7
2. Samuel Tefera 12:59.2
3. Milkesa Mengesha 12:59.7
4. Adel Mechaal 13:01.0
5. Getnet Wale 13:01.8
6. Joe Klecker 13:03.8

mMile
1. Jakob Ingebrigtsen 3:46.8
2. Jake Wightman 3:48.9
3. Oliver Hoare 3:49.1
4. Michal Rozmys 3:49.9
5. Charles Grethen 3:51.1

More likely to not break 3:48 😮‍💨

I respect your opinions but what about Ayana and Koko?

I will be a bit disappointed if Jakob breaks all of Crammy's European records and doesn't end up breaking El G's marks. But I think he has at least a 50/50 chance to take the European record this year, and maybe the WR next year.

So we won't know until they take the start line in 7 hours?? Bizarre. The complexion of these distance races change a lot without them.

McColgan will go out to run something pretty big, I'm guessing she has Hassan's European Record in her sights (14:22). She's supremely confident right now and ran 30:19 from the front into the wind in Hengelo. No way is she going to this just to cruise around. I only hope that the Ethiopians are in the race, if they are, at least one will definitely go with McColgan with $10k on the line.

I think we could see the first 1:56 of the year in the 800. With Muir in the race, Hodgkinson will have a pacemaker for 650m.

I'm also thinking 3:45 for Jakob

Amazing how she managed to run 10.000 m around a track and into the wind!

Obviously if Ingebrigtsen runs historically fast that will be significant, but the women’s 5k has the most potential to be an all around great race.

Ayana was presumed done before having an as of yet modest resurgence this year. But her two results, 5th at the Madrid half in 68:22 and 7th at the Ethiopian 10k trials in 30:48, do nothing to suggest she’s approaching her 2015-2017 form. She doesn’t have a 5k result listed since 2017. I think it’s way more likely she runs 14:4x than 14:2x.

Klosterhalfen hasn’t been quite the same since her stellar 2019 season, though she did clock a nice 14:35.88 last September. So far outdoors in 2022 she’s run 9:16.7y for 4th at Pre and 4:04.6 for 4th in Montreuil—solid, but not thrilling. She could well have a big run today, but 14:35-14:40 for 5th-8th would be my over/under for her.

The depth of this field is awesome (assuming all the Ethiopians race). Hawi Feysa, Fantu Worku and Karoline Grovdal could all also run sub-14:40 and mix it up for top-5.

Edris better be here.

It looks like it's raining pretty hard, based on the pre-DL videocast.

Let's go, interested to see what Bol can perform here today.

GO time! Track looks a bit wet but skies are clearing. Not seeing much wind.