London looks to strike gold as IAAF ponders league overhaul

LONDON will have to wait to discover whether it will be given a Golden League meeting in a planned restructuring of the series, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) revealed yesterday.

London and Lausanne have been tipped to be included in an expanded schedule from 2010, but the IAAF are waiting to make a decision until all the necessary financial partners have been secured.

In a move designed to make the meetings more popular and spread them around the globe, the world governing body are hoping to increase the number of competitions from six to possibly 12 from next year, and to move the elite Golden League outside Europe for the first time.