Lausanne’s Diamond League advertised its event under the name of Reetta Hurskee as early as June 16. In the end, despite the promises, the Finn did not have a running track among the superstars.
At the beginning of June, I ran a SE time of 12.70 for 100 meters Reetta Hurskeen the highlights of the competition season included the famous Diamond League in Lausanne, which the Tampere already did May 21 brought up on his own Twitter account.
Lausanne’s media department had told about Hurskee’s participation in the Diamond League competing on June 30 as early as May 9 – and the Finnish was still involved In the preliminary materials of Lausanne, June 16.
But when the beepers line up on the starting grids on Friday at 10:13 p.m. Finnish time ME woman, world champion Tobi Amusan and the Tokyo Olympic champion by Jasmine Camacho-Quinn in the lead, the Finn who won gold in the European Indoor Championships is missing from the crowd.
Viiva has three athletes with a worse statistical time this season than Hurske, but on the other hand, as many as five women out of eight have run under 12.40 at their best. Hurske ranks 16th in the world statistics, first among Europeans.
No spare seat
Responsible for Lausanne’s athlete procurement Laurent Meuwly told Urheilu on Wednesday that all eight are healthy and have confirmed their participation, so Hurske will be sidelined.
Hurskee’s competition manager, a very experienced player in the field Tero Heiska now reveal why this happened. According to Heiska, losing the desired place was a big disappointment for Hurskee, but the wounds will be healed already on July 2 in Stockholm’s Diamond League. There, Hurskee has a sure place.
Heiska says he met the Lausanne promoter Jacky Delapierre in March at the EC Indoor Championships in Istanbul, where Hurske and Wilma Murto won the gold.
– I offered Hursk, Murto, among my client athletes to Lausanne. Keshorn Walcott, Johannes Vetter, Oliver Helander and Kelsey Lee-Barberia. The reception was also very positive for Reeta, even though she was not 100% promised a place at the time.
All of the athletes offered by Heiska will compete in Switzerland on Friday except for Hurske and Vetter, who is on the sidelines for health reasons.
Double check
On May 9, an article appeared on the website of the Diamond League of Lausanne, in which the event was advertised, e.g. In the name of the pious. Of course, this did not go well with the athlete, the coach Marjukka Suihkon like past the competition manager’s eyes, and the place was considered safe.
– I take this in my name; I made a mistake. Of course, even after that, I should have double-checked the matter with the competition management, Heiska admits.
When Hurskee’s name disappeared from the lists, Heiska was surprised to contact the promoter Delapierre.
– He was very sorry that their media department had gone ahead of things and published such information on the event’s own pages, could not explain it any better.
Hurske remained in Lausanne as a reserve, but in the end the athlete and the competition manager blew it off and started to direct their thoughts to the Olympic Stadium in Stockholm.
Heiska emphasizes that he has had good cooperation with Lausanne for decades. Apart from this case, according to him, the action of the Swiss in sports matters has always been very professional.
As usual, Vakka Lausanne gathers a significant part of the world’s athletics elite, but the results may be left behind. At worst, the city is expected to have torrential rain and a temperature well below 20 degrees on Friday evening. Oliver Helander’s coach Tero Pitkämäki commented on Wednesday that the situation is especially interesting for his athlete:
– Oliver has never even practiced throwing in the rain, let alone competed.