The competition director of the Zurich Diamond League says why the Norwegian star had not had a matter for the final event.
Jakob Ingebrigtsen did not qualify for the Diamond League finals. EPA / AOP
In Norway, there was an uproar when the star runner Jakob Ingebrigtsen The Diamond League’s 2025 -culminated Zurich finals were thrown into the yard.
Ingebrigtsen would have liked to compete in Switzerland.
– Jakob clearly expressed his desire. We also wanted him here. We applied for a wild card for him, says the competition director of Zurich Diamond League Andreas Heidiger.
In many cases, the organizers of the competition have the right to self -determination to grant wild cards, but the rules are different in the final event.
– According to the rules, the athlete must have starts under the Diamond League for the season so he can get to the finals with a wild card. Jakob has no starts. After that it was Game Over. Unfortunately, but the rules are rules, Heidiger comments.
The Wild Card system might be a place of rule focus, as Zurich has as many as 15 Swiss athletes -most with the wild card issued by the race organizers.
For example, in the men’s spear throwing, the Swiss who has thrown 79.33 meters this season Simon Wieland.
-The athletes of the Diamond League Finals have a separate wild card system separately. A wild card can be granted most to one Swiss athlete per kind if his or her basic level is sufficient for the Diamond League, Heidiger explains.
The Diamond League website is defined in detailhow wild cards can be admitted.
Andreas Heidiger is the competition director in the Zurich Diamond League. Santtu Silvennoinen