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| Saturday, 20 July, 2002, 17:18 GMT 18:18 UK How the Golden League works Athletes of the calibre of Mo Greene compete in the Golden League The Golden League consists of Europe's seven biggest single-day athletics meetings of the summer. These meets are the Golden Gala in Rome, the Meeting Gaz de France in Paris, the Bislett Games in Oslo, the Herculis meet in Monaco, the Weltklasse in Zurich, the Memorial Van Damme in Brussels and the ISTAF in Berlin. The League was introduced in 1998 to unify and promote the elite individual European meetings. For competing athletes, the concept is simple: win your discipline at five of the seven Golden League events and share a jackpot of 50kg of gold ingots.
Last year the jackpot was split between Andr� Bucher (800m), Hicham El Guerrouj (1500m/mile), Allen Johnson (110m hurdles), Marion Jones (100m), Violeta Beclea-Szekely (1500m/mile), and Olga Yegorova (3,000m/5,000m). As an extra incentive, anyone who breaks a world record receives a �32,350 bonus. | Top Athletics stories now: Links to more Athletics stories are at the foot of the page. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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