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      • Official 2019 Lausanne Diamond League Live Discussion Thread 6/30/2019 10:38AM
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      • Not long between whistle stops for this circus. Start lists are out. lots of key match-ups still nearly three months out from the World Champs.

        Editor's note: This thread started 5 days ago but we turned it into the officail thread. It was initially entitled, "Lausanne Diamond League is only five days away"
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      • RE: Lausanne Diamond League is only five days away 7/1/2019 2:21AM - in reply to Aussiestatman
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      • The biggest clash is lyles v divine v degrasse over 200
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      • RE: Lausanne Diamond League is only five days away 7/1/2019 2:29AM - in reply to Aussiestatman
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      • What about barega v chelimo v cheptegei again, this time 5000 and throw in T.Bekele who beat them all in Rome. Add Balew, Hadis, n.kimeli, Wanders, and Berihu. Sensational.
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      • RE: Lausanne Diamond League is only five days away 7/1/2019 2:40AM - in reply to Aussiestatman
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      • Aussiestatman wrote:

        What about barega v chelimo v cheptegei again, this time 5000 and throw in T.Bekele who beat them all in Rome. Add Balew, Hadis, n.kimeli, Wanders, and Berihu. Sensational.

        And Davis Kiplangat yesterday?
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      • RE: Lausanne Diamond League is only five days away 7/1/2019 3:36AM - in reply to Aussiestatman
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      • The World Championships is completely irrelevant. These are the races that matter.

        Unfortunately, Diamond League spreads itself too thin for any of them to be really good. Lausanne is one of the ones that should be axed, there's no reason Switzerland should get two meets. Make the UK choose between London and Birmingham too, better yet neither, they're both terrible.
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      • RE: Lausanne Diamond League is only five days away 7/1/2019 5:09AM - in reply to Aussiestatman
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      • Aussiestatman wrote:

        Not long between whistle stops for this circus. Start lists are out. lots of key match-ups still nearly three months out from the World Champs.

        More importantly it's only 12 days until Monaco.
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      • RE: Lausanne Diamond League is only five days away 7/2/2019 7:23AM - in reply to Bad Wigins
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      • I am hoping that SAFP, talou, and Asher-Smith are given the central lanes for the 100
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      • RE: Lausanne Diamond League is only five days away 7/2/2019 9:46AM - in reply to Aussiestatman
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      • Aussiestatman wrote:

        What about barega v chelimo v cheptegei again, this time 5000 and throw in T.Bekele who beat them all in Rome. Add Balew, Hadis, n.kimeli, Wanders, and Berihu. Sensational.

        Men's 800m:
        Amos v korir v saruni v murphy
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      • RE: Lausanne Diamond League is only five days away 7/2/2019 9:58AM - in reply to Baby shark
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      • Baby shark wrote:

        Aussiestatman wrote:

        What about barega v chelimo v cheptegei again, this time 5000 and throw in T.Bekele who beat them all in Rome. Add Balew, Hadis, n.kimeli, Wanders, and Berihu. Sensational.

        Men's 800m:
        Amos v korir v saruni v murphy

        I don't see Amos in the Lausanne lineup. Maybe you were looking at the Monaco list?

        I didn't realize there is a 1500 in Lausanne too.

        The lineups for Lausanne and Monaco look pretty much the same, so Lausanne is a good dress rehearsal for Monaco. Only notable difference I can see is that Jake Wightman goes in Lausanne and in Monaco Josh Kerr.

        Will be very interesting to see if Kerr can get close to 3:30. Above John Mayock at 3:31.86 are the four greats - Farah, Cram, Coe, Ovett at the top of the GB all time list.
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      • RE: Lausanne Diamond League is only five days away 7/2/2019 11:51PM - in reply to Coevett
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      • Coevett wrote:

        Baby shark wrote:

        Aussiestatman wrote:

        What about barega v chelimo v cheptegei again, this time 5000 and throw in T.Bekele who beat them all in Rome. Add Balew, Hadis, n.kimeli, Wanders, and Berihu. Sensational.

        Men's 800m:
        Amos v korir v saruni v murphy

        I don't see Amos in the Lausanne lineup. Maybe you were looking at the Monaco list?

        I didn't realize there is a 1500 in Lausanne too.

        The lineups for Lausanne and Monaco look pretty much the same, so Lausanne is a good dress rehearsal for Monaco. Only notable difference I can see is that Jake Wightman goes in Lausanne and in Monaco Josh Kerr.

        Will be very interesting to see if Kerr can get close to 3:30. Above John Mayock at 3:31.86 are the four greats - Farah, Cram, Coe, Ovett at the top of the GB all time list.
        The 1500 in Lausanne pits the top four from bowerville (Cheruiyot, soulieman, Filip, and Jakob) and adds in three Kenyans plus musagala all with 3.33+ this year.
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      • RE: Lausanne Diamond League is only five days away 7/3/2019 12:44AM - in reply to Baby shark
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      • Murphy in the 800 here and then in the 1500m at Monaco. I think Murphy has raced every DL + Payton + Oxy. I'm surprised Salazar has him racing this much. It's like the more Bowerman TC rest their athletes, the more frequently NOP runs their athletes.

        Speaking of, Berega has ran a TON so far this year. I'll be surprised in he's not burnt out by the end of the year unless he takes down time the rest of July and August.
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      • RE: Lausanne Diamond League is only five days away 7/5/2019 4:59AM - in reply to Aussiestatman
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      • Aussiestatman wrote:

        What about barega v chelimo v cheptegei again, this time 5000 and throw in T.Bekele who beat them all in Rome. Add Balew, Hadis, n.kimeli, Wanders, and Berihu. Sensational.

        Only five hours or so away
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      • RE: Lausanne Diamond League is only five days away 7/5/2019 5:09AM - in reply to Not at all Subway
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      • Not at all Subway wrote:

        Wanders will likely do 13:30

        Are you serious? He is a 59:13 half marathoner / 27:44 10k guy. He already ran 13:20 a month ago, without focusing on the distance.
        I'd say he has potential to do 13:15 in a fast race.
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      • RE: Lausanne Diamond League is only five days away 7/5/2019 5:59AM - in reply to Aussiestatman
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      • Aussiestatman wrote:

        What about barega v chelimo v cheptegei again, this time 5000 and throw in T.Bekele who beat them all in Rome. Add Balew, Hadis, n.kimeli, Wanders, and Berihu. Sensational.

        My stats friend, Peter Matthews rated last season 5000 best performers as: barega, balew, chelimo, edris, gebrhiwet, and hadis. This year started in Shanghai with Kejelcha [not here] over barega and gebrhiwet. chelimo disappointed there. Roma saw Bekele rise to the top over barega and gebrhiwet. three days later in the Netherlands bekele beat a different crew of kimeli and berihu. last sunday over 2 miles there was a classic battle between cheptegei, barega, and chelimo. i'd say here in Switzerland, barega wins over bekele and cheptegei with balew and gebrhiwet next.
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      • RE: Lausanne Diamond League is only five days away 7/5/2019 6:39AM - in reply to Aussiestatman
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      • the 1500 looks like Cheruiyot, Soulieman, jakob I., v.kibet, and birgen could be the top 5.