Athletics season 2020

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Glasgow Indoors on Saturday....

Men's 400m

1 Akeem BLOOMFIELD JAM 46.20
2 Obi IGBOKWE USA 46.41
3 Yousef KARAM KUW 46.49

Women's 60m

1 Shelly-Ann FRASER-PRYCE JAM 7.16
2 Murielle AHOURÉ CIV 7.22
3 Natasha MORRISON JAM 7.30

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Diamond League 2020....

Calendar 2020
MEETING COUNTRY DATE
Doha QAT 17th April 2020
China (venue to be advised) CHN 9th May 2020
Shanghai CHN 16th May 2020
Stockholm SWE 24th May 2020
Rome / Naples ITA 28th May 2020
Rabat MAR 31st May 2020
Eugene USA 7th June 2020
Oslo NOR 11th June 2020
Paris FRA 13th June 2020
London GBR 4th July 2020
Monaco MON 10th July 2020
Gateshead GBR 16th August 2020
Lausanne SUI 20th August 2020
Brussels BEL 4th September 2020
FINAL: Zurich SUI 11th September 2020

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“Due to the growing number of countries affected by the COVID-19 virus, the first three meetings of the 2020 Wanda Diamond League season, scheduled for April 17 in Qatar, 9th and 16th May 2020 in China, cannot be held as planned,” the Diamond League said in a statement.

The Diamond League said the”decision was made in close consultation with organising committees, local authorities and sports governing bodies.”

Qatar suspended incoming flights for at least two weeks, and the government banned all national and international events for 30 days.

“While the number of new infections is now decreasing in China, the fact remains that preparations for the meetings have been set back by several weeks,” the release said.
It also said, “the closed borders and travel restrictions make it impossible to organise top-level international competitions.”

https://trackalerts.com/tokyo-2020-blow ... rly-meets/

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The Tokyo Olympics are to be postponed until 2021 after talks between Japan’s prime minister, Shinzo Abe, and the International Olympic Committee president, Thomas Bach, led to confirmation of a decision made inevitable by the coronavirus pandemic.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/ ... s-pandemic