Chapter 309: Diamond League

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It will take almost a week to get the final result.

But Lu Kai has already begun to help Zhang Qiyang plan for the future.

He checked the World Athletics schedule last night.

In mid-December, Melbourne, Australia, will host the final IAAF Challenge of the year. A week later, Melbourne will also host this year's IAAF Diamond League Finals!

The Melbourne Challenge is a mat performance for the year-end finals, and some big-name athletes will participate in this challenge in a training attitude to adapt to the local climate and venue conditions.

Zhang Qiyang certainly does not qualify for this year's IAAF Diamond League finals, but he is still very promising to participate in the Melbourne Challenger.

As long as he can set a new national record at the Chengdu Grand Prix in mid-November, and even surpass the world record, the Chinese Athletics Association will have the capital to recommend Zhang Qiyang to participate in the Melbourne Challenge.

The Melbourne Challenger is not the top IAAF event like the Diamond League, but the IAAF recognises world records in such challenges.

If Zhang Qiyang can set a new world record at the Melbourne Challenge and become the world record holder, he will be eligible to participate in any of the IAAF events, including the World Championships in Athletics, the highest level!

However, continental events such as the Asian Games and the Olympic Games still need to be recognized by the Chinese delegation, and if the Chinese delegation does not recruit Zhang Qiyang, Zhang Qiyang can only participate as an independent athlete.

In any case, as long as he can set a new world record that will be recognized by the IAAF, it will be equivalent to getting a ticket to all the races, and the future competitions are up to him.

In Lu Kai's view, Zhang Qiyang must participate in this year's Melbourne Challenge, because only when he achieves results in this competition will Zhang Qiyang be eligible to participate in all IAAF competitions from the beginning of next year.

And the most important of these is the IAAF's Diamond League.

Unlike the previous one, the IAAF Diamond League in this plane has adopted a monthly model of one city and one stop per month, starting in January and continuing until the finals in December, with a total of 12 races.

And unlike the previous one, where there were only seven competitions in each event, there will be 32 competitions in each event of the IAAF Diamond League on this plane!

And each event will have a special point, and the top three players in each individual competition will get four points, two points and one point for each individual event.

Over the course of a season, the athlete with the highest points will become the world No. 1 in the event and receive a $100,000 year-end prize and a platinum diamond ring worth $100,000 to symbolize the top track and field athletes!

These bonuses, for a super noble boy like Zhang Qiyang, are just a drizzle, not much at all, not as much as the money he makes by borrowing a random activity in the entertainment industry, but the glory of being the first in the world is precious, and the economic benefits behind it will be infinitely huge.

So far, no Asian athlete has won the glory of winning the world number one in a single year-end event in the IAAF's Diamond League.

Chinese women's long-distance runners dominated the international women's long-distance running scene in the 90s of the last century.

But at that time, the IAAF had not yet established a diamond league, nor did it establish such an honorary title as "world first".

When the IAAF established the Diamond League in 2005 and also had the title of No. 1 in the world, the Chinese women's long-distance running declined in various drug prohibitions.

At present, no Asian athlete has the strength to dominate the world in the world of athletics in which European and American athletes play the leading role.

If Zhang Qiyang can participate in next year's Diamond League and win the world's first place in many events, it will play an immeasurable role in promoting the development of China's track and field career!

It is even possible to take athletics to a new level all over the world!

Therefore, in Lu Kai's view, Zhang Qiyang must participate in next year's Diamond League, shine as soon as possible, and shine all over the world!

At noon that day, the leaders of the Athletics Association took the initiative to invite Zhang Qiyang to have a working meal.

During the meal, Lu Kai expressed his hope that the Chinese Athletics Association would fully support Zhang Qiyang's idea of participating in the Diamond League.

In fact, there is no need for the support of the Athletics Association to participate in the Diamond League, as long as Zhang Qiyang can set a new world record at the Melbourne Challenge, he will be eligible to participate.

But if you want to participate in the Melbourne Challenge, you must have the support of the Athletics Association, and with Zhang Qiyang's current zero-starting identity, only through the sponsorship of the Athletics Association can you get a wild card for the Melbourne Challenge.

The leaders of the Athletics Association also expressed during the meal that they would fully support Zhang Qiyang to show the demeanor of our Chinese athletes on the world stage, whether it is in the front arena or in terms of logistics support, the Athletics Association will fully support Zhang Qiyang to participate in the competition.

Zhang Qiyang himself is a little hesitant to participate in the IAAF Diamond League.

Although Lu Kai and the leaders of the Athletics Association have blown the Diamond League into the sky, Zhang Qiyang has always felt that participating in this kind of competition is too wasteful of time, unlike participating in continental events such as the Olympics or the Asian Games to shock the Chinese people.

One of Zhang Qiyang's original intentions in athletics is to establish his hero image through sports, whether it is a positive hero image or a ruffian hero, anyway, if he wants the public to mention him, he has to give him a thumbs up. Even if you have a lot of complaints about him, you must admire him from the bottom of your heart.

In order to achieve such a goal, it is an efficient and time-saving way to achieve results in the continental events that Chinese people are most concerned about.

Compared to the Olympics, how many people will pay attention to the IAAF's Diamond League?

Even if he achieves amazing results in the early stage and attracts everyone's attention, when this novelty passes, there should not be too many people watching him compete, and he has to spend a lot of time competing for this, which is a bit more than worth the loss.

This kind of Diamond League competition can usually be completed in two days, but it is a lot to fly around the world, and the time spent on the journey before and after, plus a certain amount of training time.

may be a week smaller than one stop, Zhang Qiyang.

He wasn't very fond of it.

Having him spend a week a month flying around the world competing in athletics is really boring and will disrupt a lot of his work plans.

So for this kind of diamond league that spans too long, Zhang Qiyang is really not interested.

He is still more interested in competitions like the Olympics and the Asian Games.