Ese Brume pulls out of Paris Diamond League meet?
Reigning African Games and African Championships champion, Ese Brume looks to have pulled out of Sunday’s Meeting de Paris, the eighth leg of the 2024 Diamond League meetings, athletics’ premier one-day meeting series will hold.
The Nigerian was included in the first list of confirmed athletes for the event billed to hold at the Charléty stadium in Paris. She is however not in the updated list released on Friday, two days to the competition.
This will be the second straight Diamond League meeting where the women’s long jump is among the events to be competed for that Brume will have her name removed from the final list of participants after an earlier confirmation.
The 28 year old missed the opening leg of the event at the Suzhou Diamond League meeting in Suzhou, China in April due to visa issues.
With just two Diamond League meetings left where the women’s long jump will hold after the meeting in Paris on Sunday and before the final in Brussels in September, Brume will have to be among the top three in both meetings to stand a chance of making the final of the competition.
Last year in Eugene, Oregon, USA, the Nigerian made history as the first field eventer to compete in the Diamond League final.
She was denied the chance to make another piece of history as the first Nigerian in the field event to be crowned a Diamond League champion when she lost the gold medal on countback to reigning world champion, Ivava Vuleta despite both jumping 6.85m.
