So the Diamond League begins again, and here in Doha for Friday’s first meet I’m genuinely excited about it all.

The whole raison d’etre of the Diamond League is to create more of the head-to-heads between the big stars and rivals. That didn’t really happen in its first year, partly because of injuries to people like Usain Bolt or Sanya Richards-Ross or fallow years for the likes of Yelena Isinbayeva.

It should be different this year, even if David Rudisha and Abubaker Kaki have both pulled out of what looked like a fantastic 800m clash here in Qatar. Read more>>

Source: BBC via Trackandfieldnews.com