Why is there no German Diamond League meet?

It's a charity league. No money is made. There's no incentive to join. In fact it costs too much. Seb wants free perks for his family and entourage. Seb wants his old friend's crews to run the meeting. In Germany, Japan, and China it is against the law. In Hollywood it is against trade union agreements,

The Netherlands, Spain, and Portugal don’t have one either. But as a continent, Europe has plenty. Africa, South America, and Oceania have none. I thought it was World Athletics, not Mostly European Athletics.

There is one in Rabat

Wokism.

Only country where women's discus is promoted to be on the same level of interest than men's 1500m. So are the meetings scheduled. Interest in rest of world goes down, since years.

Athletics in Germany is dead.

I mean, adidas and Puma are based there. Two of the major sporting shoe brands. But no meet. Strange.

DL is non-profit yet it makes a load of Euros for the old boys network in Monaco, UK, France and Switzerland. It's 3rd Generation athletics families that fake out the DIamond League as if it's not making money while in fact they make millions.

They have a meet with long traditions: ISTAF Berlin.

Some results:

800m - David Rudisha 1:41.09 WR (2010)
2000m - El G 4:44.79 WBP (1999)
1500m - Said Aouita 3:29.46 WR (1985)
3000mSC - Kerry O'Brien 8:21.98 WR (1970)

Edwin Moses won the 400mH six times. Kevin Young won it twice. Geb ran a couple of sub 13s there in 1998/99. The current marathon WR holder, Tigist Assefa, won the 800m in 2014. Gidey ran a 14:08 last year. Lyles won the 100 in 2022. Warholm usually prioritizes this meet (German main sponsor, Puma) and won the 400mH each time.

Germans are too woke for that

Amazing post considering China has 2 DL meets.

Actually a bit sad for the biggest country in Europe, but apparently there is no one in Germany willing to pay enough money to set up a Diamond League.

Even ISTAF in Berlin which used to be a significant meet and could be Diamond League, doesn’t have the funds necessary.
It’s only Silver Label now.

There is one other Silver Label (Rehlingen), but that’s it.

It seems like Germans don’t care about competitive sports enough. But there are a lot of factors at play.

Istaf produces good results in four or five disciplines each year and they invite top athletes, but often there is no real depth or some disciplines are just set up to show off the best German athletes

Xiamen/Suzhou used local Chinese TV crews, local cameramen, local writers, local ITOs, local meet management, local photograohers, and local announcers. It's against the law to use foreign crews in China. Japan NHK, TTV, Kyodo, Seiko, Ji Ji Press, etc. are the exception.

Outside of the Eugene DL meeting, the DL Club is how old Europe used to be. Class based, controlled by Royalty, not what you know but who you know. It's nearly impossible to break into the DL Club. It takes more than money. China, Morocco, and Qatar had to spend a fortune on bribes to get into the DL Club. To be one of the few DL meetings is special. The personnel in the DL Club are the best in the sport of Athletics. If you can get in, that is, it's a lifetime of effort to earn your way into the DL Club.

It is dead in Most Countries, Many Countries have a handful of Good Runners and no depth Example in The Marathon Kenya, Ethiopia, Japan Have lots of Good Runners, Using the Criteria how many Runners Each Country has in the Top 1000 on the Alltime List, Those 3 Countries and maybe 1 or 2 otherAfrican Countries are getting more runners coming into Top 1000 Then they have Leaving, Look at The Countries with most runners in the top 1000 and see how many they have in 2030 Almost All will be lower, Some Countries have given up and just rely on Africans, It is not like they are developing who have been in that Country for ever, some Countries like Bahrain, will tell you flat out they are not looking to Find A Bahrani who has potential in running to develop over 10-15 Years to lets say run a 2:06 Marathon, When they can just pay an A Kenyan or Ethiopian or Morroccan who is already able to run that time or faster To run for Bahrain

This is nice...but what does depth of marathoners have to do with holding a diamond league meet in Germany?

I don't want to reach too much, but I know a lot of Germans and work with Germans so here is my take:

After the 1990s and the EPO scandals of cycling and running, the Germans were the leaders in testing, busting, and reporting on drug use. They broke most of the biggest scandals through real journalistic work from the ARD (German news)

The knock-on effect is that Germans are cynical and disinterested. There is a "well, it is all a fraud" attitude about cycling, swimming, and track. Not to mention, in modern Germany, athletes cannot effectively dope (anymore) and as such they have almost no Sportler at the peak international level anymore. This fact has caused interest to drop dramatically.

Prior to the 1990s, the Germans were one of the world's track & field powerhouses. They averaged 10 medals per WC in the 1990s. In Budapest, they got zero. The days at the top are over. Uta Pippig, Dieter Baumann, Heike Dreschler, Heike Henkel, Lars Riedel, Stephane Franke, are all long gone.

The journalist Hajo Seppelt is a hero of clean sport but having no dopers in your country also impacts your country's odds of doing well on the biggest stages: OG, WC, etc.

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Hajo Seppelt

Hajo Seppelt (born 1963) is a German journalist and author. Personal life and education Seppelt was born in West Berlin, and is the son of Alfred Seppelt, who was the head of the Berlin Chess Federation from 1984 to 2004. In...

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The German sports machine is dead & stinking. They now suck at just about everything.

Had to agree to it post 1945.

They are only good in Marathon at the moment. But athletics is not too popular, if you would have a DL it would be hard to fill the stadium. People want to watch soccer. They host the Euro soon. There goes the money.