The Stade de France in Paris will be the place to be on saturday the 5th of July when the next meeting of the
IAAF Diamond League is scheduled to take place. A women’s 200m field and men’s 100m line-up both worthy of a major
championships final will be among the expected highlights.
For the first time since 2010, Allyson Felix will contest the
200m at the Stade de France where she won in a stadium record of 22.14. The Olympic
champion and three-time world champion will be up
against a host of top sprinters, including double world champion
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, world leader Tori Bowie, double world medallist
Blessing Okagbare and 2010 European champion Myriam Soumare.
Felix, Fraser-Pryce, Bowie and Okagbare have already raced against each
other over 200m this season. Bowie came out on top on that occasion with
Okagbare setting a PB in second place and Felix running a season’s best
of 22.44 in third.
The men's 100m line up features seven athletes who have all run under 10secs. Trinidad and Tobago’s Richard Thompson, who improved his own national record to 9.82 at last weekend’s
national championships and the fastest man in the world
this year, is one of seven men in the 100m field who have run
faster than 10 seconds for the distance.
Among those set to take him on include
world bronze medallist Nesta Carter, former world record-holder Asafa
Powell, former US champion Michael Rodgers, 2003 world champion Kim
Collins, European champion Christophe Lemaitre and European indoor
champion Jimmy Vicaut.
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