The Diamond League are scrapping long distance athletic track events:
https://www.sport24.co.za/OtherSport/Athletics/kenya-slams-iaaf-scrapping-of-5-000m-in-diamond-league-20190314
Kenya and other east African countries are rightfully outraged. They've dominated these events for most of the last 50 years.
Lesson: Europe make it up as they're going along and if they find they cannot win, they ban it. Everyone should take note, especially New Zealand's All Blacks who are dominant in Rugby Union and almost never lose. Get that good and the Europeans ban you. Oh yes, the World League at the stroke of a pen wrote out smaller Pacific Island nations, they're seen as feeders only. It's the old colonial mindset. And if you need a further athletics example, Athletics started talking about scrapping the shot put from the Olympics at the same time non-Europeans started becoming dominant.
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