The IAAF wants to make the Diamond League more marketable and believes longer races slow things down.

Another development at the Diamond League could affect the future of generations of athletes.

The IAAF wants to sideline the 5,000 and 10,000-metre events, which are dominated by East Africans.

Al Jazeera’s Catherine Soi travelled to the high-altitude training camps in the Great Rift Valley in Kenya to find out how it could affect a deep-rooted culture of long-distance running.

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