Usain Bolt Pulls Out Of Jamaican Trials To Focus On Diamond League..

Sprint Supremo Usain Bolt has pulled out of the 100 metres at the Jamaican national trials. But this would in No way affect his Eligibility to defend his world championship title in August Bolt automatically qualifies to defend his title.

It is believed Bolt’s coach Glen Mills decided that the Jamaican Sprint king should concentrate on training for the Diamond League races in Paris and Lausanne as a build up to the world championships.

Bolt has not had a particularly outstanding season so far as his 10.12sec best time is a far cry from his 2009 world record of 9.58.

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A sharp Contrast to Usain Bolt’s recent performances is exactly what American athlete Justin Gatlin has had so far, and the Controversial athlete as returned the fastest time so far this year at 9.74secs and pundits are already talking up a straight battle between Bolt And Gatlin at the world championships in.

Wether this will come to pass still remains to be seen but if it happens it might be Bolt’s biggest challenge yet.

IAAF Diamond League 2015:Event Disciplines Per Each Meeting

The IAAF Diamond League is delighted to announce the distribution of event disciplines for the 2015 season.

Commencing on 15 May 2015 in Doha (QAT), the sixth season of the IAAF Diamond League comprises 14 of the best invitational track and field meetings in the world. The meetings are spread across Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the USA, and compose the top tier of the IAAF’s global one-day meeting competition structure.

This series of 14 meetings, which began in 2010, showcases 32 event disciplines which are carefully distributed among the meetings.

In each of the 32 event disciplines there is a ‘Diamond Race’ with points available throughout the 14-meeting season. Winners of each Diamond Race receive a USD $40,000 cash prize and a spectacular trophy, but more importantly they will have shown season-long consistency to earn the unchallenged honour of being the world No.1.

Each of the 32 event disciplines is staged seven times with the top three athletes being awarded points at each meeting – four for the winner, two for second place, and one for third – with the exception being the finals in Zurich (SUI) on 3 September 2015 and Brussels (BEL) on 11 September 2015, where the points are doubled.

Get set for the IAAF Diamond League 2015!

2015 IAAF Diamond League calendar

Doha, QAT – 15 May

Shanghai, CHN – 17 May

Eugene, USA – 30 May

Rome, ITA – 4 June

Birmingham, GBR – 7 June

Oslo, NOR – 11 June

New York, USA – 13 June

Paris, FRA – 4 July

Lausanne, SUI – 9 July

Monaco, MON – 17 July

London, GBR – 24-25 July

Stockholm, SWE – 30 July

Zurich, SUI – 3 September

Brussels, BEL – 11 September