Official 2015 IAAF Doha Diamond League Live Discussion Thread

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  • LetsRun.com
    your benevolent dictator
    4 years ago 05/15/2015 12:43am CDT
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    Track and field fans, your 8 month wait is about to be over with a great opening meet in Doha.

    You can read all about it in our meet preview here:

    http://www.letsrun.com/news/2015/05/2015-iaaf-doha-preview-mo-farah-doesnt-duck-the-competition-in-a-stacked-mens-3000-asbel-kiprop-mo-aman-abeba-aregawi-and-sifan-hassan-to-clash-in-1500/

    TV and streaming info is here (it's important to note that the Diamond League isn't on Universal this year):

    http://www.letsrun.com/news/2015/05/television-and-streaming-information-for-2015-iaaf-doha-track-and-field-athletics-meeting/

    Schedule, entries and results here:

    http://www.letsrun.com/news/2015/05/schedule-entries-and-results-for-2015-doha-iaaf-diamond-league-track-and-field-athletics-meeting/
  • enquiring minds
    4 years ago 05/15/2015 6:43am CDT
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    Am I completely on my own in not caring in the slightest about the Diamond League?
  • somebloke
    4 years ago 05/15/2015 6:55am CDT
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    No pirate streaming?

    Arrrr
  • Augusto E. Perez
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    4 years ago 05/15/2015 6:58am CDT
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    adflkjaf wrote:

    I don't think those times are right. Doha is 7 hours ahead of EST, so if the meet begins at 1730 Doha time, then things should start at 1030 EST. (This is consistent with what is listed in the LetsRun preview.)

    Doha is seven hours ahead of EDT.
  • elmore345
    4 years ago 05/15/2015 9:33am CDT
    re: LetsRun.com
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    Apart from the 3000m I don't think this event is that exciting - and I need to leave for work just as that race starts!
  • Lenny Leonard
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    4 years ago 05/15/2015 9:42am CDT
    re: elmore345
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    elmore345 wrote:

    Apart from the 3000m I don't think this event is that exciting - and I need to leave for work just as that race starts!

    Ummm... have you heard of Asbel Kiprop?
  • rojo
    cofounder
    4 years ago 05/15/2015 9:44am CDT
    re: elmore345
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    elmore345 wrote:

    Apart from the 3000m I don't think this event is that exciting - and I need to leave for work just as that race starts!

    Are you on drugs? (Or just bitter that you can't watch it as you have work so you are trying to make yourself feel better - get off the internet and watch it taped on slingtv as you don't know the results).

    You don't think KIprop versus Souleiman and Aman at 800 is exciting? But I bet you loved watching the white guys run 1:46 in Oxy last night. ;)

    Kiprop and Souleiman are two of the greatest mid-d talents in history. Aman is an 800 stud.

    And saying "apart from the 3000m" is kind of like saying, "Apart from LeBron James, I don't think the Cavaliers are worth watching."

    For years, everyone has said Mo Farah doesn't run the circuit, he doesn't face the competition and he doesn't chase fast times. We get to see all of that go by the wayside today.

    One of the problems with track is their are so many events. In my mind, they could have a meet with just the men's 3000 and I'd pay to watch it. Hell have that and the men's 800 with fireworks and intros like World Relays.

    But there is A TON of other good stuff: The world's fastest man (of late)- Justin Gatlin, Allyson Felix and Sanya Richards-Ross, and a great women's 100 hurdles with the last two Olympic champs (Dawn Harper Nelson/ Sally Pearso)n.

    And oh yeah, we also get to see Jenny Simpson's biggest rivals show their early season form in the women's 1500.

    This meet is truly awesome if you are a true track fan, not just a fan of white Americans.
  • elmore345
    4 years ago 05/15/2015 9:45am CDT
    re: Lenny Leonard
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    Fair point but the 800 is not really his distance.
  • elmore345
    4 years ago 05/15/2015 10:28am CDT
    re: rojo
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    Im British so didn't watch the Oxy event last night - just as well as the British weather moved over there for the evening by the looks of things. Ok you are right there are some great races/athletes at Doha tonight - I guess its because Im a big fan of 1500s which is missing this time. Farah to go for the win but not time - even though I get the feeling he is is 7.25 shape and has been training like a beast since Jan.
  • reed
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    4 years ago 05/15/2015 10:33am CDT
    re: LetsRun.com
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    So yeah I screwed up the start times, my bad. Add 6hrs. I'm in PT and I did -3hr instead of +3hr.

    The live results aren't working on my iPhone, but apparently the iOS diamond league app works

    W1500m is in 45min
  • Fed up BBC viewer
    4 years ago 05/15/2015 10:38am CDT
    re: LetsRun.com
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    There is no live DL on the BBC this year except the UK ones just the paying Eurosport so its pirate streams or wait until tomorrow and stay off the internet until then.
  • Critical Thinking
    4 years ago 05/15/2015 10:39am CDT
    re: enquiring minds
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    enquiring minds wrote:

    Am I completely on my own in not caring in the slightest about the Diamond League?

    On letsrun? More or less; there might be one or two others.
  • Pullthecord
    4 years ago 05/15/2015 10:51am CDT
    re: elmore345
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    You're a bloody idiot. Stop writing stuff.
  • elmore345
    4 years ago 05/15/2015 11:01am CDT
    re: Pullthecord
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    Your Mum is here now so Ill stop writing stuff.
  • reed
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    4 years ago 05/15/2015 11:10am CDT
    re: elmore345
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    Batman (aka bershawn jackson) wins the 400mH in a MR 48.09
  • DohaOnTV
    4 years ago 05/15/2015 11:10am CDT
    re: elmore345
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    Live now on DirecTV Ch 620 BEIN
  • rojo
    cofounder
    4 years ago 05/15/2015 11:15am CDT
    re: DohaOnTV
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    Does anyone know where the results are being posted? I don't see anything here:

    http://doha.diamondleague.com/lists-results/timetable-2015/

    The link on the IAAF site isn't working.

    Bershawn Jackson has won the 400h in a world leading 48.09? 48 low. He's run 48 for 13 years in a row. Amazing.
  • Cashier
    4 years ago 05/15/2015 11:15am CDT
    re: reed
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    reed wrote:

    Batman (aka bershawn jackson) wins the 400mH in a MR 48.09

    Not liking the smell of his late career surge...
  • FIFA?
    4 years ago 05/15/2015 11:17am CDT
    re: DohaOnTV
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    Someone needs to find and shoot the jerkoff with the vuvuzela.
  • DaCloner
    4 years ago 05/15/2015 11:17am CDT
    re: Cashier
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    http://www.stream2video.tv/countries/united-kingdom/eurosport-2-live-stream

    Free stream.