After an opening act in China, the Wanda Diamond League comes to Doha, Qatar, the traditional beginning of track and field's regular season. It'll feature some interesting DL openers from the likes of Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, and great chances for Americans like Bryce Hoppel to try for a win against the world's best.

To help you watch along, you'll be able to pick your favorite athlete in Wanda Fantasy Diamond League game for each Diamond Discipline event. Here's how to enter and a guide for each DL event.

Click here to enter the Wanda Fantasy Diamond League contest for Doha by 10:45 AM U.S. Eastern Time on Friday 

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Pick your dream team of Diamond League athletes and earn points every meet based on their real-world performances. Climb the leaderboard, claim bragging rights, and win prizes.

The competition will be taking place early morning Saturday U.S. time in a colossal brand new stadium, and you'll have to get your picks in before then if you want to see how your winners stack up. Here's a brief guide on what to look out for.

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Men's discus (10:48am ET): Denny, the '23 and '24 DL Champ, begins his 2025 quest

Australia's Matt Denny has been the king of the Diamond League discus lately, and he's coming fresh off a PB in Ramona, only losing to Alekna's world record. But behind him are the 2022 World champion (Kristjan Čeh) and 2021 Olympic champ (Daniel Stahl), and both will be looking for some early-season glory. UPenn grad Sam Mattis finished 3rd in Ramona and would do well to duplicate that here, as the host country enters their national champ Moaaz Mohamed Ibrahim.

Women's pole vault (11:02am ET): Olympic champ and World Indoor champ will challenge Newman

Although the current reigning Olympic champ (Nina Kennedy) and reigning World Indoor (Marie-Julie Bonnin) won't be in Doha, the preceding champs at both competitions (Katie Moon at the '21 Olympics, Molly Caudery at the '24 WIC) will be. And they're not the only ones with a chance at victory, with '24 Olympic bronze medalist Alysha Newman lying in wait. With most of the field yet to jump outdoors this year, a mystery will unfold and you can expect an opening for the rest of the U.S. delegation in veteran Sandi Morris, last year's Pre Classic winner Emily Grove, or upstart Gabriela Leon (5th in Nanjing this year). 

Women's triple jump (11:23am ET): Can Olympic champ LaFond find her groove?

One of the defining moments of the Paris Games was when Dominica's Thea LaFond won the first ever Olympic medal for her country, and it was a golden one. She surprisingly placed 4th at World Indoors in her only outing this year, but the three women who beat her there aren't in Doha. Other than LaFond, Slovenia's Neja Filipic (6th) is the top returning finisher from those championships, but Jamaica's Shanieka Ricketts and Ukraine's Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk are the top seeds by PB as the only women aside from LaFond who have broken 15 metres before.

Women's 400m (12:04pm ET): Naser has been crushing it at Grand Slam Track and will bring her talents to the DL

Bahrain's Salwa-Eid Naser is coming back into her own after returning from her whereabouts ban two years ago, and she got to show it off at the first two Grand Slam events this year finishing runner-up at both. Natalia Kaczmarek of Poland is the only other Paris individual medalist in the field, but it'll be interesting to see how Razorback Amber Anning or Olympic 800m 4th-placer Shafiqua Maloney will fare.

Men's high jump (12:10pm ET): Massive questions about hometown hero Barshim

Mutaz Essa Barshim of Qatar has been the face of the men's high jump for well over a decade now, with Olympic medals spanning back to 2012 and a 2.43-meter PB set back in 2014 that's unmatched by this field. But he had to withdraw from his own What's Gravity Challenger meeting in Doha on Friday, making his health a major question mark as he sits on the start list. Top American Shelby McEwen is probably wishing he chose to split his Paris Olympic gold medal like Barshim did in 2021, and he'll have a chance for redemption over his rival and gold-medal thief Hamish Kerr. But the big story here is that both of them couldn't hold a candle to breakout Japanese star Ryoichi Akamatsu at the What's Gravity Challenger last week, who beat a stellar field and finished only behind Woo Sang-hyeok who isn't in Doha. Vernon Turner is the 2025 U.S. indoor champ but didn't go to World Indoors.

Men's 800m (12:13pm ET): Could Bryce Hoppel get his first ever Diamond League win?

After a bitersweet 1:41.67 4th-place Olympic finish, the USA's Bryce Hoppel has gained the confidence that he can compete with the world's best. And because none of the medalists ahead of him are in Doha, he has an excellent shot to win his first-ever Diamond League race this Friday. His best competition will be two 1:42 Kenyans, Wyclife Kinyamal and Aaron Cheminingwa. Kinyamal ran his 1:42.07 to finish 5th at the '24 Paris DL, and fascinatingly has been spending his time this year running some 400m and 100m sprints in Kenya (his best time? 11.5 hand-timed, so look out for him in a kick). Cheminingwa tied with Kinyamal at the Paris DL to the hundredth, but was given the nod by the FAT timers so we'll say his 1:42.07 is a little bit faster. He's more of an unknown entity, with an 800m PB of only 1:46 before last year. Qatar's two entrants, Ibrahim Chout and Hatim Oulghazi, have both PBed this year but have never dipped under 1:45.

Men's 110mH (12:24pm ET): Broadbell should take advantage of Holloway's absence here

After a disappointing performance at World Relays, Jamaica is looking for wins where they can take them. Rasheed Broadbell is in a great position to notch one on Friday, as he's coming off a 3rd-place finish in Shanghai and is one of only two men in the field to have broken 13.0 seconds, along with Daniel Roberts who was 4th and 5th at his two GST outings. Fellow American Jamal Britt beat Roberts in Miami, and the host country sends Oumar Abakar who is the 60mH national record-holder. Almost as interesting as the field is who isn't here: Grant Holloway has been mysteriously absent since his loss to Cordell Tinch at the Shanghai DL, and neither Tinch nor Shanghai 2nd-placer Rachid Muratake are coming to repeat in Doha.

Women's 100m (12:36pm ET): The weight of a nation rests of SAFP's shoulders, unless her compatriots have anything to say about it

She has five global 100m titles to her name, and her status as the GOAT is undisputed. But she's also 38 years old, and it's about time for a new guard to take the mantle. Jamaica's Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce is the top seed by a mile, and all eyes will be on her to see if she's still got it in her last-ever pro track season. Her greatest foreign competition will come from Mujinga Kambundji, who surprised to win the World Indoor 60m title earlier this year. But in an American-less field, there will be three other Jamaicans in Natasha Morrison and twins Tia and Tina Clayton who could put at ease Jamaican fans' worries with a commanding win in Doha.

Men's javelin throw (12:43pm ET): Neeraj Chopra's DL return will be highly anticipated

By some measures, the most popular athlete in track and field isn't Noah Lyles. It isn't Sydney McLaughlin or Sha'Carri Richardson either. It's Neeraj Chopra, who has lit up the Indian subcontinent with his Olympic gold in 2021 and managed a silver in Paris last year behind Pakistan's Arshad Nadeem, who isn't in the field. Grenada's Anderson Peters is a legend of the sport with two world titles to his name and should be the first to challenge Chopra in Doha.

Men's 5000m (12:45pm ET): Kuma Girma, Lamecha's brother, showed he'll be a force this year in Shanghai

Although 3000m steeplechase world-record-holder Lamecha Girma is on the road to recovery following a concussion in the 2024 Olympic final, his brother Kuma Girma has been creating a name for himself in his absence. At the Shanghai Diamond League, Kuma nearly beat Berihu Aregawi in a mad dash to the finish, and without Aregawi here and Addisu Yihune as the only sub-12:50 performer, he's the man to beat. Cooper Teare is the lone American. He's had some solid Grand Slam Track results this year, but it'll be interesting to see how he can hang in a fast race unlike the sit-and-kick shows in Kingston and Miami.

Women's 1500m (1:08pm ET): This one looks pretty wide-open

With no Americans in the field, a host of high-performing Kenyans and Ethiopians will do battle and one will likely come out on top, though it's hard to say who. Top seed Susan Ejore has demonstrated form at the Miami Grand Slam, and actually qualified for the Olympic final where she finished 6th, unlike second-best seed Nelly Chepchirchir who was out in the semis. Look out for the likes of Saron Berhe behind though, who broke the world U18 mile record last year (4:24.23) and will be one to watch in the years to come.

Men's 200m (1:22pm ET): Tebogo's first Diamond League 200m of 2025 will be a treat

He's had a few tests in the 100m this year, but we all know that the Olympic champ Letsile Tebogo's best event is the 200m. After withdrawing from World Relays due to a payment dispute with his federation, Letsile Tebogo will do his first Diamond League 200m of the year and he'll be massively favored. Top American Courtney Lindsay has actually beaten Tebogo before over 200m in Nairobi last year, and he'll be hoping to re-create that magic this Friday. Kyree King rounds out the American field, who is a regular on the U.S. relay squad. Speaking of relays, look out for Canada's Aaron Brown who notched bronze at World Relays in China last weekend.

Men's 400mH (1:33pm ET): It's a rare 400mH without any of the Big Three

Men's 400-meter hurdling over the last few years has been dominated by the Big Three -- Karsten Warholm, Alison Dos Santos, and Rai Benjamin. But without any of their presence in the Doha DL, your guess is as good as mine who will cross the line first. American hopes will rest on CJ Allen, who is a fixture of the Diamond League but performed inconsistently in his Grand Slam Track debut. Jamaica's Malik James-King has fared better at both Grand Slam Track meets so far and comes in as the top seed.

Women's 3000mSC (1:44pm ET): The entire Olympic podium returns in a scorcher

There's a reason Doha organizers picked this event to close the meet -- it features the entire 2024 Paris Olympic podium, namely Winifred Yavi (gold for Bahrain, 2nd-fastest PB of all time), Peruth Chemutai (Uganda, silver), and Faith Cherotich (Kenya, bronze). Yavi is also the reigning world champ, following 2022 world champ Norah Jeruto of Kazakhstan who is also in this race. The only knock on Yavi is that she hasn't raced this year, so we'll see how her fitness stacks up. An important American looking to make a splash will be Val Constien, who won the 2024 U.S. Olympic trials in a meet-record 9:03 clocking.

Click here to enter the Wanda Fantasy Diamond League contest for Doha by 10:45 AM U.S. Eastern Time on Friday