The Diamond League season has returned, and world-class athletes are heading to Lausanne, Switzerland to proceed the momentum set in movement in Paris–or to hunt redemption if they didn’t obtain their Olympic objectives. The assembly begins with males’s pole vault on Wednesday, Aug. 21 at 12 p.m. ET, with the remainder of the occasions following on Thursday, Aug. 22 at 1 p.m. ET.
Males’s 800m
Canada’s personal Olympic 800m silver medallist, Marco Arop, will as soon as once more face off in opposition to Olympic champion Emmanuel Wanyonyi of Kenya. Arop ran 1:41.20 in Paris and is the fittest he has ever been, so this may undoubtedly be one other very shut race. Olympic fourth-place finisher Bryce Hoppel of the U.S. will likely be seeking to take one of many prime spots within the race after simply lacking the rostrum in Paris.
Males’s 1,500m
The Lausanne assembly will see one other match-up between newly-minted Olympic 1,500m champion Cole Hocker and Tokyo 2020 gold medallist Jakob Ingebrigtsen following Hocker’s shocker of a win in Paris, the place he knocked Ingebrigtsen off the rostrum fully.
“I’m the fittest I’ve ever been, and I don’t wish to go away something on the desk,” Hocker stated on the Lausanne Diamond League press convention. “I hate shedding, so each time I race I wish to win. Now that the world report is within the dialog, I’m clearly so excited–I hope to take a stab at that, whether or not it’s this season or subsequent yr.”
Fifth-place finisher Hobbs Kessler of the U.S. will likely be battling with Kenya’s Timothy Cheruiyot to spherical out the rostrum.
Males’s 110m hurdles
The 110m hurdles will likely be function your complete podium from the occasion in Paris–Olympic champion Grant Holloway and runner-up Daniel Roberts will battle with Jamaica’s Rasheed Broadbell, Olympic bronze medallist, as he tries to improve his third-place end. Holloway can have his sights set on taking down the world report, which is only one hundredth of a second sooner than his 12.81 private greatest.
Ladies’s 800m
A stacked discipline of athletes will toe the road for the ladies’s 800m. Olympic bronze medallist Mary Moraa of Kenya will likely be battling different Olympic finalists Shaniqua Maloney of Saint Vincent and Rénelle Lamote of France. Individuals Nia Akins and Allie Wilson will even be within the combine. It was introduced that their teammate, former Olympic champion Athing Mu, could be racing to re-establish her dominance within the 800m, after a crash at U.S. Olympic trials saved her from defending her Olympic title; nevertheless, she is now not listed within the Lausanne lineup.
Ladies’s 400m hurdles
Femke Bol will likely be searching for redemption off a devastating third-place end in Paris. With out world report holder Sydney-McLaughlin-Levrone and Olympic silver medallist Anna Cockrell within the lineup, the Dutch sprinter is predicted to simply take the win in Lausanne.
Males’s 200m
Newly-minted Olympic champion Letsile Tebogo of Botswana will exhibit his health as soon as once more, aiming to carry off a discipline with three different Olympic finalists and 100m bronze medallist Fred Kerley of the U.S.
Males’s pole vault
Starting Wednesday, Aug. 21 at 12 p.m. ET is the boys’s Diamond League pole vault. Armand “Mondo” Duplantis, two-time Olympic champion, world indoor and world out of doors champion, will likely be making an look. The pole vault GOAT is contemporary off a brand new world report of 6.25 m, which is nearly 30 cm greater than the second-best peak within the stacked discipline–the one individual Duplantis will likely be competing in opposition to is himself as he chases one more record-breaking soar.
