Athletics WA Grand Slam Track League 2025

[Grassmarket 4,027]

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 4,027]

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 15,997]

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 285]

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

Edited May 2 by Orangehair43

[Josh 11,493]

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 by Josh

[Grassmarket 4,027]

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 15,997]

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 by heywoodu

[heywoodu 15,997]

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 792]

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 11,493]

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