the world athletic championships are being held in london.
where are the world athletic championships being held?
london
london had bid to host the 2015 world athletics championships using the olympic stadium. it went up against beijing's olympic stadium and the polish city of chorzów. however, the stadium had to withdraw their bid due to uncertainties arising out of the timing of the announcement of who would operate the stadium after the olympics, thus gifting beijing the championships. with issues resolved over the stadium's future, london again used the stadium to bid for the 2017 world athletics championships. the bid was made official in august with lord coe personally submitting the bid a few weeks later at the 2011 world athletic championships in daegu which was supported by london's mayor boris johnson and the british government. on 11 november 2011, the iaaf officially awarded the 2017 world championships to london. the world para athletics championships (formerly the ipc athletics world championships) were planned to take place a month before the able-bodied event and were formally confirmed for the stadium in december 2012. the 2017 able-bodied athletics event was the final track championship for mo farah and usain bolt.
london stadium
on 30 august 2003, haile topped the polls when elected as a member of the iaaf athletes commission. also in 2003, at the world championships in paris, haile was involved in one of the most remarkable 10,000 metres races of all time while gaining a silver medal behind countryman kenenisa bekele. the last half of the 10,000 metres final at the championships was completed in a staggering 12:57.24 (12:57.2 for bekele and 12:58.8 for haile). according to the iaaf, "not only was this split the fastest closing 5000 metres in the championships 10,000m (the previous record was 13:12.12, recorded in atlanta), but it was also the fastest 5000 metres in a global championships surpassing the 12:58.13 salah hissou recorded when he won the 5,000m in sevilla'99." (this remark remained true until a week later when the world athletic championships 5000 metres medalists (including bekele) all ran faster than the second 5000 metres split in the previous week's 10,000 metres.) "the difference between the closing 5000 metres splits (12:57.24) and the 5000 metres world record (12:39.36) was 17.98 seconds, which is a record. the previous best of 18.4 seconds (13:31.4 for the closing 5000 metres when the world record was 13:13.0) was recorded in the 1976 olympics."
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