The world 400m hurdles record-holder and a number of Olympic champion should be capable to compete in Brussels however solely in non-Diamond League occasions
Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, who had deliberate to finish her unbelievable 2024 season by doing the 200m and 400m on the Diamond League ultimate in Brussels, is “ineligible” to race in each occasions, in accordance with Diamond League CEO Petr Stastny.
The 25-year-old claimed her second Olympic 400m hurdles gold medal in Paris – breaking her personal world report with 50.37 – and was additionally a part of the US girls’s 4x400m group that stood on the highest of the rostrum.
Nevertheless, hopes of ending off her marketing campaign within the Belgian capital this season could also be dashed after Stastny’s feedback.
In an e mail despatched to LetsRun, he said that “it’s not about permitting a particular athlete to compete or not” however “about guidelines and standards which should be fulfilled by all to changing into eligible to compete on the WDL Ultimate”.
McLaughlin-Levrone’s eligibility revolves round “world wild playing cards”.
Most athletes qualify for the Diamond League ultimate via accumulating factors however they will additionally e book their spot by way of these wild playing cards.
4 world wild playing cards will be given out to athletes they usually have been created to make it possible for among the greatest athletes on the planet compete within the Diamond League ultimate.
Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone (Getty)
One athlete who benefited final 12 months was Jakob Ingebrigtsen, who competed within the 3000m in Eugene.
Nonetheless, there are stipulations that need to be met for an athlete to qualify for that wild card.
Based on the principles laid down by World Athletics for the Diamond League, an athlete will need to have both competed or achieved a end in at the very least one Diamond League assembly throughout that season.
McLaughlin-Levrone hasn’t raced at a Diamond League since final July, when she clocked 49.71 over 400m in Paris.
Stastny added: “Ms McLaughlin-Levrone doesn’t fulfil these standards, both by accumulating sufficient factors or receiving a wild card.
“The ultimate leg of the Diamond League will not be an invitational assembly and any athlete proposed for a world wild card will need to have competed at the very least in one in every of our occasions throughout this season.”
McLaughlin-Levrone may nonetheless finish her season in Brussels however it could imply operating in a non-Diamond League occasion, which normally have weaker fields.
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