Athletics WA Grand Slam Track League 2025

[Grassmarket 4,300]

Grand Slam Track II from Miami* starts this evening.

 

Grand Slam Track | The new global league by legendary sprinter Michael Johnson

 

 

 

* And in a weekend where the Diamond League is nowhere near Shanghai, the GS is actually in Miramar.

 

 

[Grassmarket 4,300]

Fred Kerley will be....errrm....a no-show.

 

https://www.letsrun.com/news/2025/05/fred-kerley-arrested-at-meet-hotel-ahead-of-grand-slam-track-miami/

[heywoodu 16,461]

2 hours ago, Grassmarket said:

Fred Kerley will be....errrm....a no-show.

 

https://www.letsrun.com/news/2025/05/fred-kerley-arrested-at-meet-hotel-ahead-of-grand-slam-track-miami/

Well by now him being arrested is starting to be less rare than rain in Iceland. 

[Orangehair43 315]

I need to follow atheltics more. Of the guess challengers this time arround I only recognise a couple of names 

Edited May 2, 2025 by Orangehair43

[Josh 13,504]

A very entertaining women’s 100m hurdles in Miami, as Masai Russell and Tia Jones go 12.17 and 12.19, the second and third fastest times in history

Edited May 3, 2025 by Josh

[Grassmarket 4,300]

Very good evening overall, I thought.  OK, usually problem with too much bread and not enough filling, but pretty much all the races were exciting and close.  Whole thing a lot less early-season.   

[heywoodu 16,461]

5 hours ago, Grassmarket said:

Very good evening overall, I thought.  OK, usually problem with too much bread and not enough filling, but pretty much all the races were exciting and close.  Whole thing a lot less early-season.   

Plus the usual Florida tailwinds making for some interesting times  

 

The not enough filling at least made for a good breakfast view this morning: skipping the large parts of nothing made it possible to watch the whole meet (meaning, 8 races) in under half an hour or so, that's quite practical  

Edited May 3, 2025 by heywoodu

[heywoodu 16,461]

Not sure yet on one thing though: there are the 'Slam' winners, who gain the most points in the two events in a certain meet (i.e. someone won the Kingston 'Slam' in the short hurdles/sprint combo, this weekend someone else might win it). But, is there also an overall champion at the end?

 

Is it like, say, Formula 1: someone wins a race and thus has a win, but the actual champion is whoever collects the most points?

[Biathlonfan 835]

10 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Not sure yet on one thing though: there are the 'Slam' winners, who gain the most points in the two events in a certain meet (i.e. someone won the Kingston 'Slam' in the short hurdles/sprint combo, this weekend someone else might win it). But, is there also an overall champion at the end?

 

Is it like, say, Formula 1: someone wins a race and thus has a win, but the actual champion is whoever collects the most points?

yes,there's overall champions in the end.

[Josh 13,504]

43.98 WL for  Jacory Patterson in the men’s 400m!