Memorial van Damme is an annual athletics event at the King Baudouin Stadium in Brussels, Belgium that takes place in late August or early September. As of 2009, it is the fifth part of the IAAF Golden League, and will become the final event of the Golden League's successor, the IAAF Diamond League, starting in 2010.
It was first organized in 1977 by a group of journalists in honour of Ivo van Damme, a Belgian double medal winner at the Montreal ...
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