No Grand Slam Track in 2026 until athletes paid for 2025, confirms Michael Johnson
Johnson admitted in a statement that the company is struggling to compensate athletes from the three meetings that took place in 2025 in Kingston, Jamaica, Miami and Philadelphia.
The four-time Olympic sprint gold medallist said he had taken the decision to cancel the fourth and final meeting in Los Angeles to avoid further losses and start the lengthy process of stabilising the company to get back on track.
He added: 'The 2026 season will not happen until those obligations are met -- and that is my first priority.'
Johnson launched Grand Slam as an alternative to the Diamond League series of international meetings with an important difference -- it would only feature track events and not field events.
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