{"id":919,"date":"2016-03-10T10:15:48","date_gmt":"2016-03-10T10:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/diamond-race-points-revolutionised\/"},"modified":"2016-03-10T10:15:48","modified_gmt":"2016-03-10T10:15:48","slug":"diamond-race-points-revolutionised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/diamond-race-points-revolutionised\/","title":{"rendered":"Diamond Race Points Revolutionised"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17.1429px; \">From 2016, the points system will be changed to state that athletes finishing in the&nbsp;<span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; \">top six<\/span>&nbsp;will all win points. The new breakdown is as follows:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\">\n<li style=\"box-sizing: border-box; \">1st place: 10 DR points<\/li>\n<li style=\"box-sizing: border-box; \">2nd place: 6 DR points<\/li>\n<li style=\"box-sizing: border-box; \">3rd place: 4 DR points<\/li>\n<li style=\"box-sizing: border-box; \">4th place: 3 DR points<\/li>\n<li style=\"box-sizing: border-box; \">5th place: 2 DR points<\/li>\n<li style=\"box-sizing: border-box; \">6th place: 1 DR point<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17.1429px; \"><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 17.1429px; \">In all six previous seasons of the series, athletes could win Diamond Race points at any given meeting by finishing in the&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 17.1429px; font-weight: bold; \">top three<\/span><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 17.1429px; \">&nbsp;in their Diamond Race discipline. In the IAAF Diamond League Finals in Z\u00fcrich and Brussels, points are doubled. The athlete with the most Diamond Race points at the end of the season wins the Diamond Trophy. If two or more athletes are tied on points at the end of the season, the athlete with the most victories wins the Diamond Trophy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17.1429px; \">With more points up for grabs this season,&nbsp;<span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 17.1429px; \">more athletes will find themselves in the running for Diamond Race glory.&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; \">2016 promises to provide some of the most competitive and thrilling Diamond Races yet.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-version=\"6\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:658px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\">\n<div style=\"padding:8px;\">\n<div style=\" background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:50.0% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;\">\n<div style=\" background:url(data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAAGFBMVEUiIiI9PT0eHh4gIB4hIBkcHBwcHBwcHBydr+JQAAAACHRSTlMABA4YHyQsM5jtaMwAAADfSURBVDjL7ZVBEgMhCAQBAf\/\/42xcNbpAqakcM0ftUmFAAIBE81IqBJdS3lS6zs3bIpB9WED3YYXFPmHRfT8sgyrCP1x8uEUxLMzNWElFOYCV6mHWWwMzdPEKHlhLw7NWJqkHc4uIZphavDzA2JPzUDsBZziNae2S6owH8xPmX8G7zzgKEOPUoYHvGz1TBCxMkd3kwNVbU0gKHkx+iZILf77IofhrY1nYFnB\/lQPb79drWOyJVa\/DAvg9B\/rLB4cC+Nqgdz\/TvBbBnr6GBReqn\/nRmDgaQEej7WhonozjF+Y2I\/fZou\/qAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\" margin:8px 0 0 0; padding:0 4px;\"> <span style=\" color:#000; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none; word-wrap:break-word;\"><link https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BCxpaEIjuNW\/ _blank>Revolution is in the air&#8230;The #DiamondRace points system will change in 2016. From now on, the #Top6 will all get points, rather than just the #Top3.<\/link><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;\">A photo posted by IAAF Diamond League (@diamondleagueathletics) on Mar 10, 2016 at 6:23am PST<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script src=\"http:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/typo3\/\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The IAAF Diamond League has introduced a new points format for the 2016 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":920,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[6,8,82,83],"city":[],"class_list":["post-919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-diamond-league","tag-diamond-race","tag-points","tag-reform"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919","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=919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}