Can anyone confirm if the Shenzhen DL meet is still on for September 2nd? I haven't seen any announcement that it's not, but I noticed that it's no longer listed/linked along with the other host locations at the top of the Diamond League website.
Shenzhen Diamond League canceled?
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good catch. its not on the header bar, but it is on the sxhedule page. wtf?
google gives no news about it, the best i can find is this;
maybe its an it snafu?
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PeterG505 wrote:
Can anyone confirm if the Shenzhen DL meet is still on for September 2nd? I haven't seen any announcement that it's not, but I noticed that it's no longer listed/linked along with the other host locations at the top of the Diamond League website.
Off due to Covid
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Weird. Now it's back on the DL website but they're saying it's in Xiamen instead of Shenzen. I don't recall the DL ever making that announcement.
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pupil3142 wrote:
good catch. its not on the header bar, but it is on the sxhedule page. wtf?
google gives no news about it, the best i can find is this;
maybe its an it snafu?
Strange! The World Athletics news item dated 24 Mar 2023 at that link states that a Diamond League would be held in Shenzhen on 2 Sept 2023. Also on 24 Mar 2023, it looks like a news item on the Diamond League website stated that a meet would be held in Xiamen on 2 Sept 2023.
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Master in Asia wrote:
pupil3142 wrote:
good catch. its not on the header bar, but it is on the sxhedule page. wtf?
google gives no news about it, the best i can find is this;
maybe its an it snafu?
Strange! The World Athletics news item dated 24 Mar 2023 at that link states that a Diamond League would be held in Shenzhen on 2 Sept 2023. Also on 24 Mar 2023, it looks like a news item on the Diamond League website stated that a meet would be held in Xiamen on 2 Sept 2023.
It appears that news item dated "March 24th" originally said Shenzhen but some time yesterday it was stealth edited to replace "Shenzhen" with "Xiamen".
As proof, you can see the archived title ("Wanda Diamond League Shenzhen will be staged 2nd of September 2023. Disciplines released for the first edition of the Meeting.") and link here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20230402003450/https://shenzhen.diamondleague.com/home/
You can also see on the article, if you view the HTML source it has a tag saying it was edited just yesterday:
<metaname="Last-Modified" content="2023-07-25T11:39:25+02:00" />Something fishy going on that they would not explicitly announce such a late change to the schedule in its own article instead of stealthily deleting the Shenzhen site as if it never existed.
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Seb Coe was pressured by Western powers to cancel the meet. Xi (Winnie the Pooh) is not pleased!
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Why are more people not concerned about this?
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Invisible things happening in an opaque and shady country. Who knew?
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Jonathan Gault wrote:
Weird. Now it's back on the DL website but they're saying it's in Xiamen instead of Shenzen. I don't recall the DL ever making that announcement.
Either way it's just the most bizarre DL scheduled meeting on the program. I don't know who they expect to run there? You already have a long season as the World's are even by traditional standards quite late (disregard Doha which was held so late because of dangerous heat in August) and then you have Zurich on the 31st (a Thursday?) and Brussels on the 8th - with a meet in China sandwiched in between on the 2nd? Like who does that meet?
It's bad enough they take the DL final out of Europe to be honest and have it in Eugene - the scheduling of these final 4 meetings of the year is quite frankly idiotic.
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