{"id":1253,"date":"2016-12-13T09:46:08","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T09:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/diamond-league-2017-explained-track\/"},"modified":"2016-12-13T09:46:08","modified_gmt":"2016-12-13T09:46:08","slug":"diamond-league-2017-explained-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/diamond-league-2017-explained-track\/","title":{"rendered":"Diamond League 2017 Explained: Track"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Next year&#8217;s Diamond League will see athletes competing within their discipline for a place in the Final at either Z\u00fcrich or Brussels. Whoever wins the Final will be crowned Diamond League Champion.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/giphy.com\/embed\/pkINTEEbCJf4Q\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" frameborder=\"0\" class=\"giphy-embed\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<link https:\/\/giphy.com\/gifs\/diamond-league-race-pkINTEEbCJf4Q>via GIPHY<\/link>\n<p>Each Diamond Discipline on the track will stage six qualifying meetings next season, where athletes can pick up points in their bid to qualify for the Final.<\/p>\n<p>At each of the 12 qualification meetings, Athletes are awarded 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 or 1 points for ranking 1st&nbsp;to 8th&nbsp;respectively. The top 8 or 12 Athletes (depending on the discipline) will be awarded a start at the Final. In case of a tie, the best legal performance of the qualification phase wins.<\/p>\n<p>That means that each discipline will have its own Diamond Journey around the world during the season.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To make sure you can follow your favourite disciplines as they unfold over the summer, here is the breakdown of the Diamond Journey for all track events.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"storify\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/storify.com\/Diamond_League\/track-diamond-journey\/embed?header=false&amp;border=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"750\" frameborder=\"no\" allowtransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><script src=\"\/\/storify.com\/Diamond_League\/track-diamond-journey.js?header=false&amp;border=false\"><\/script>&lt;noscript&gt;[&lt;a href=&quot;\/\/storify.com\/Diamond_League\/track-diamond-journey&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;View the story &quot;Track Diamond Journey&quot; on Storify&lt;\/a&gt;]&lt;\/noscript&gt;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, we announced a new format. Here we take a closer look at how the superstars of the...","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1033,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[235,240,6,65,218,242,234,214,241],"city":[],"class_list":["post-1253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-championship","tag-diamond-journey","tag-diamond-league","tag-hurdles","tag-long-distance","tag-middle-distance","tag-new-format","tag-sprints","tag-track"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1253"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=1253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}