Official Shanghai Diamond League (actually it's in Shaoxing) Discussion Thread + Live reaction show at 9:00 am ET

I would rather watch GST. This meet is a total non-factor.

This is actually a pretty great field for this early in the season! The women’s high jump and men’s 400 are loaded, and this will be Warholm’s season opener in the 400 hurdles, it’ll be interesting how it turns out after his WR 300h last meet

At the press conference for the meet, Karsten Warholm's pronunciation of the names of cities in China was impressive.

Wrong!

American Addy Wiley is what's known as a "red alert" athlete in the medical community, due to her ability to trigger health conditions in middle-aged American men whenever she races well.

The most recent meta-analysis in The American Journal of Anonymous Message Board Medicine linked race days of red alert athletes with the following health disorders:

Intermittent Explosive Disorder (IED), Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), High Blood Pressure (Hypertension), Heart Attack & Stroke, Gastrointestinal Issues, Headaches & Migraines.

Set your alarms early, meet starts in about 8 hours.

No men’s 800 or 1500. I think I’ll pass. This meet isn’t worth getting up early for.

El Bakkali dropped out of the meet. I suspect he realized he was likely to lose even worse to Firewu, probably Koech and perhaps even Serem. A good time to regroup for Rabat, where it would be rough if he doesn't finish 1 or 2.

Meet record for Chase Jackson, up on second place by nearly a meter after two throws.

Kendricks missed his opening height and then passed his remaining attempts.

72 degrees, 15 mph winds

Is there a YT live stream for those of us with a VPN?

Australian server should work

Chase Jackson with another meet record, #3 and #4 longest throws in her career.

Don't think there is a YouTube stream.

If you can find a UK IP, there's the BBC stream here:

bbc.co.uk

Athletics: Diamond League - 2025: Keqiao

A host of world-class athletes descend on Keqiao for the Diamond League 2025.

Open link

Warholm wins big, 47.28; CJ Allen in 6th

Women's 800m up next

Australia FTW

Also lol, Letsrun won't let me post when the VPN is on... When I clock post reply it just hangs forever with no error message.

47.28 even with a last 100 that wasn’t Kerron Clement but wasn’t pretty either. Firmly still ahead of Dos Santos right now, but we’ll see where Rais at soon.

CJ looked to be over-rotating coming down the home straight.

Hello track fans.Right affter this one is over, JG and I will be going live to break it down for you as well as last night's GST.