Official 2024 Paris DL Live Discussion Thread (10-12 am ET Sunday) + Live Reaction Show at 12 noon ET

Thank you Rojo, for this incredible post!

Please feel free to add anything you got......

After running that sub 20 earlier in the year, Tarsis was a no show for the NCAA 200M. Tebogo, not Tarsis will be the spoiler.

Excited for the return of the DL. Also, this is Wanyonyi's first race since his 1:41 800, and his first race since with an actual rabbit. If the pace is fast enough and he PBs, there's only two more people on the all-time list he can pass...

Feel free to enter the Fantasy DL prediction contest for this (plus Monaco next week) as well, entries close 9am ET one hour before the TV window this time because of the 110mH semifinals.

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Fantasy Athletics: Diamond League '24

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Has this Uganda sprinter tried the 800m yet? He sure seems like a medal threat at 200m. Does he ever run the 400m? He apparently ran 11.2 and 22.46 at age 14 and has gradually improved.

Listened to the Coffee Club podcast and Beamish has been all kinds of sick lately, including bronchitis. Hope he gets out of this alive.

Are there seriously 2 heats of the 110? I've never seen that before at a DL meet

France always has really good 110m hurdlers so they always use the opportunity to bring in bigger fields for it and highlight the event. Same for Pole Vault with really strong fields every year. Grant actually ran his slowest time of the year, 13.20, in the heats of last year's Paris Diamond League. They run it before the TV window starts.

Look likes the 800m has a pacer.

For the one that said the 3000m SC is a joke:

“I saved my butt”: injured but on the French podium, Alexis Miellet qualified for the Olympics The 3,000m steeplechase of the French championships in Angers, this Saturday June 29, promised to be exciting. It was, with a champion Nicolas-Marie Daru and a courageous Alexis Miellet 3rd. Injured in the calf, the European champion lined up to validate his ticket for the Olympic Games.

Freweyni Hailu no longer listed in 1500 and looks like no pacer in women's steeple?

Eid Naser is a shell of her former self. Hmm wonder why that is

As far as sprints go, the timing of this meet isn’t great for north americans, they might be doing it for a paycheck.

I look to Africans to deliver some good performances.

Good chance Dos Santos turns into Djokovic but to do so he has to win Paris. Otherwise he's simply too far behind in a 1 in 4 sport.

Women's steeplechase is loaded in Paris. The other East Africans are not going to allow Beatrice to cruise on her own in front. That is an 8:50 event unless the weather is unbearable like Tokyo. Constantien didn't even go with a 3:05 pace in Eugene. She'll be quickly off the screen in Paris. To medal in that event you need to establish among the East Africans all season long, not have one breakthrough race and pretend it means anything.

Regarding the women's 400 Kaczmarek needs to build on her European Championships gold by continuing to push the pace early. She did that in Rome and was rewarded with a personal best by half a second.

However, it is not Kaczmarek's tendency. She seemed stunned. Just like Bol at 400 hurdles Kaczmarek is overly cautious and prefers to build into the race. Somehow the commentators praise her for it even though it was always blatantly obvious she was leaving plenty out there.

The only reason Kaczmarek pushed early in Rome was the knowledge it was head to head with Adeleke, and her determination to win that race. She wasn't as intimidated by Adeleke as she had been two years earlier in the European final against Bol, when Kaczmarek allowed Bol to get the jump on her coming out of the turn.

I root for Kaczmarek but expect her to revert to her prior strategy. Paulino can get away with closing emphasis. The others can only win Paris from the front.

Paulino is short favourite for Olympic gold if Miller-Uibo is not involved. Sada Williams is in the mix for medals if fit with Kaczmarek and Adeleke.

The 3k is being rabbited for 4:00 at 1600, so it’s possible we’ll see a pretty quick time if Krop’s ready to finish fast off of that. Still kinda weird that it’s in the middle of the DL program, since a “possible 7:27” isn’t what it used to be.