{"id":135759,"date":"2026-03-27T13:02:46","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T13:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/doha-diamond-league-to-go-ahead-as-planned-despite-travel-restrictions\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T13:02:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T13:02:46","slug":"doha-diamond-league-to-go-ahead-as-planned-despite-travel-restrictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/doha-diamond-league-to-go-ahead-as-planned-despite-travel-restrictions\/","title":{"rendered":"Doha Diamond League to go ahead as planned despite travel restrictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The opening meet of the 2026 Wanda Diamond League set for May 8th in\u00a0 Doha, Qatar, will go on as earlier planned despite travel restrictions in Asia as a result of the Israel\/USA airstrikes in Iran.<\/p>\n<p>However, Diamond League will continue to monitor the situation in Doha, working closely with meeting organisers, the Qatar Athletics Federation, the relevant authorities in Qatar, and World Athletics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe safety of athletes and spectators is our primary concern, and we are also exploring alternative options with all stakeholders,\u201d read the statement<\/p>\n<p>Organisers have promised to make a final decision at least a month before the scheduled date.<\/p>\n<p>The 2026 Diamond League season will begin in Doha on May 8 and end at the two-day series final in Brussels on September 4-5.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/doha-diamond-league-to-go-ahead-as-planned-despite-travel-restrictions\/\">Doha Diamond League to go ahead as planned despite travel restrictions<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/\">KBC Digital<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The opening meet of the 2026 Wanda Diamond League set for May 8th in\u00a0 Doha, Qatar, will go on as earlier planned despite travel restrictions in Asia as a result of the Israel\/USA airstrikes in Iran. However, Diamond League will continue to monitor the situation in Doha, working closely with meeting organisers, the Qatar Athletics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}