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Meet Preview: Zurich Golden League

Posted August 28th, 2008 at 1:46 PM by Jesse Squire

Section: News & Results, Track & Field

Tommorrow the IAAF’s Golden League comes to Zurich for the Weltklasse meet, the fifth out of six competitions in the series.

TV / Web coverage:

ESPN Classic, 4-6 p.m. Friday (replays Saturday at 7 a.m.)
CBC, 4-6 p.m. Saturday (replays Monday at 12:30 a.m.)
Trackshark.com, 2 p.m. (live)

Still in the hunt for the $1 million jackpot are Kenya’s Pamela Jelimo in the 800 meters and Croatia’s Blanka Vlasic in the high jump.

Other superstars among the 41 Olympic medalists slated to compete are Usain Bolt, Kenenisa Bekele, Dayron Robles, and Yelena Isinbayeva. Great matchups are the sixth faceoff of the year between Jeremy Wariner and Kerron Clement, a rematch between Vlasic and her Olympic spoiler Tia Hellebaut, and a men’s 4×100 relay featuring the USA and Jamaica.

A deeper listing of top entrants can be found at The Track & Field Superblog.