Brussels Memorial Van Damme DL 2019

[ATK]

Entries are up. Everyone you expect who qualified is here, making for some very stacked fields in every event. A few notables qualifiers are absent though.

M 110mH: McLeod
W 100m: Thompson
W 5000m: Dibaba
W HJ: Cunningham

[Juicy News]

Why is there a random 400m hurdles at the end?

And McLeod chose Berlin over this?

[The Flying Pigdog]

Thompson not in the w100? Wonder why...oh look, there's SAFP in the race.

[steveu]

And McLeod chose Berlin over this?

Maybe he felt like he wanted a less competitive race that he "knew" he could win to boost confidence, rather then tangle with the heavy hitters before he feels he's truly ready?

[Juicy News]

Maybe but at an opportunity cost of 50k?

[Atticus]

some very stacked fields in every event

That's an understatement. All the events have (what I consider to be) all the medal faves:

mSP
wDT
wLJ
wPV
wHJ (-VC)
m400 (-Cedenio?)
w100 (-ET)
mDT
m3000St
m200
mTJ
110H (-GH, McL)
m1500
100H
w800 (-Alemu?)

the m5000 and w400H seem to be C-events


plus the field of the meet, the w5000

[steveu]

And, in what has become almost an annual treat, we get to see not one, not two, but THREE Borlee brothers tangle in the (national) 400.

[Juicy News]

Managoi scratched, replaced by Engels. He should get the olympics standard.

[tandfman]

Engels, in turn, has withdrawn from the USA team in Minsk next week.

[Juicy News]

Norman is not on the startlist anymore.

[Atticus]

Norman is not on the startlist anymore.

?! I see him on it.

[gh]

bummer: NBC Gold won't have Thursday's men's SP

[Alan Shank]

bummer: NBC Gold won't have Thursday's men's SP

Yeah, they generally don't cover the "day-before", city-center events. Anybody know of another source for live coverage, or at least live results?
Hopefully,
Alan Shank

[Alan Shank]

?! I see him on it.

As of just now, he is on the list.
Cheers,
Alan Shank

[Juicy News]

As of just now, he is on the list.
Cheers,
Alan Shank

I swear I did not see him on the list when I was checking that time!