Track Is Back: Enter the Lausanne (Thu 8/22) and Silesia (Sun 8/25) Fantasy DLs This Week

Enter the Lausanne DL Prediction Contest by 2pm ET Thursday here:
https://hpr.github.io/2024
Then, enter the Silesia DL Prediction Contest by 8:59am ET Sunday here:
https://hpr.github.io/2024/#/silesia24

It’s been a month.

With the Paris Olympics officially in the books, it feels like ages ago that we had our last Fantasy DL contest in London — props to g2g4gold, Seth Hall, and dknumnum for topping the leaderboards that time. But the good news for those with post-Olympic hangover is that pro track is still here, and it’ll be continuing this week with meetings in Lausanne (Thursday Aug. 22) and Silesia (Sunday Aug. 25).

This past month, 42 individual Olympic champions have been crowned — some expected like Mariledy Paulino and Emmanuel Wanyoni, some unlikely as Cole Hocker and Letsile Tebogo, and some a long time coming such as Grant Holloway. Thanks to the Diamond League, all of the aforementioned will be racing this weekend to defend their titles while those left off the podium will be hungry for revenge.

Of particular interest in Lausanne: Will Jakob Ingebrigtsen attack the 1500m WR after being left of the podium in Paris? And if there with 150m to go, will shock Olympic champ Cole Hocker’s kick have anything to say about that? With the pressure off his back and a target now on it, what can Letsile Tebogo do in the 200m against phenom Erriyon Knighton and new Olympic 100m bronze medalist Fred Kerley?

In Silesia, the entries window ends earlier than the TV window due to the semifinal round of the women’s 100mH. The two-round format may favor the green Olympic champ Masai Russell, but she’ll again have to beat a veteran in Tokyo champ Jasmine Camacho-Quinn and the two other American 100mH finalists to get it done. In the men’s 3000m, double bronze medalist Grant Fisher will face Ingebrigtsen again and Yomif Kejelcha, who scared the 5000m WR earlier this year but didn’t get to run that event in Paris as the Ethiopian federation only entered him in the 10K. The entire Olympic podium will return in the men’s 3000m steeplechase, and Kenneth Rooks will get another crack at the king Soufianne El Bakkali, undefeated at global championships since 2021. The best chance of a world record might be in the men’s 800m, where Emmanuel Wanyoni will want to show his 0.01-second margin of victory over Marco Arop was no fluke.

Click the unified links below and remember to submit your entries before the deadline, being sure to check that your submission was received by going to the “Submissions” page. Good luck, and feel free to reply to this email or click the email icon on-site with any feedback.

Enter the Lausanne DL Prediction Contest by 2pm ET Thursday here:
https://hpr.github.io/2024
Then, enter the Silesia DL Prediction Contest by 8:59am ET Sunday here:
https://hpr.github.io/2024/#/silesia24