Diamond League: Silesia start lists are out

400mH specialist Alison Dos Santos runs the flat 400 vs. Niekerk, Norwood et. al.

Akbache and Sowinski pacing the 1500.

Remains to be seen if the rumors about Stewart McSweyn being a superpacer are true or not.

Sub 3:30 PB for Farken?

Chorzow has a new super fast track.

Is the rumor that McSweyn is the 3rd pacer?

The old school 1230m pacer a-la William Tainui. I will check with some sources and see if there is any heat to that. If this was true then it wouldn't be unreasonable to think they would want him to run under 2.46 through 1200 which would mean Jakob is looking to run in the low 27's

Jackson vs Richardson vs Ta Lou in the women's 100m

Where is Katir? This will be 3 weeks without racing.

There are 15 listed for the Womens 800m?

Took until mid-July, but I'm very happy to see entries full of the biggest names across events. Looks like it's going to be a great meet.

Yes, that’s the rumour (journalists in the Norwegian podcast “I det lange løp» -«In the long run», a few days ago. But of course hard to be 100% certain….)

Yes I agree. An earlier write up on the Diamond League site had him entered..

this would be incredible. he seems to be the guy out there that everybody respects, and this doesn't seem outside of the character he's shown on the track, considering he doesn't appear to be in a position to challenge this year.

1200+ meters at 3:26/3:27 pace would be a heck of a workout for him anyway.

Understandable that Jakob keeps chasing times, but you’d think at least once before Budapest he might like to try a 1500 against quality competition with no pacers. Is it like a rule that every DL distance race must be paced? It’s sort of boring after a while. Who decides about the pacers? Can the athletes, or an athlete of Jakob’s stature, say no pacers this time out?

Is Stewie capable of pacing a 3,26 race for 1200 meters this year? What does it take?

Someone is going to pull out.

No. I’d rather see one of the Kenyans as second pacer over Sowinski or an ailing Stewie. If Tim was in the race, perhaps Keter could do it. Munguti/Kiprugut also viable.

The big attraction for me will be to see Reynold Cheruiyot. Basically stopped trying with spot secure at Kenyan trials, he might really go right at Jakob. Jakob will surely outlast him, but could be exciting nonetheless.

someone is pulling out.

This looks very good for a new Jakob PB. No Katir or Tim means that no one are likely to follow him if he goes sub 3:28 pace. He can thus risk more, and won't have to save that much of a kick to ensure a win.

Stewie seems to approach 3:31-32 shape, and should hopefully be able to hold at least 1100m at 3:27 pace if he really is pacing this. That would be huge.

If Jakob's management bother to both have Katir delisted and hire McSweyn to pace, I believe Jakob must be in shape to target sub 3:27 and close to 2:46 for 1200. Let's hope for good conditions!