When the Wanda Diamond League season got underway in Doha last May, few could have imagined what an incredible campaign lay ahead. 2023 proved to be a vintage year in athletics’ premier one-day series, delivering seven world record, 13 Diamond League records and nailbiting drama across the 14 meetings. <\/p>\n
It began, as so many great sporting sagas do, with some good old-fashioned trash talk. <\/p>\n
Ahead of the season opener, all eyes were on Fred Kerley. The US sprinter was reigning world champion, and a firm favourite to claim the Diamond Trophy in the men’s 100m and 200m. He had also been stoking the fires ahead of the series by demanding a showdown with Olympic champion Lamont Marcell Jacobs. <\/p>\n
“I’ll be there. I don’t know if he’ll show up,” said Kerley ahead of the Seashore Group Doha Meeting, at which he cruised to a comfortable victory with 19.92m in the 200m. At that point, Jacobs had not appeared at a Diamond League meeting for two years amid ongoing struggles with injury, and the two men had already been exchanging barbs on social media in the weeks previously.<\/p>\n
Jacobs later made his first Diamond League appearance in two years at the Meeting de Paris, while Kerley picked up further wins in Rabat and Florence. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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