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The post-Paris leg of track & field’s Wanda Diamond League starts in the Olympic capital of Lausanne, Switzerland with the annual Athletissima meet on Thursday, with the main program starting at 1:45 p.m. Eastern time.
The headliners are eight Olympic champions who will be in action:
● Men/200 m: Paris gold medalist Letsile Tebogo (BOT) against Americans Erriyon Knighton (fourth in Paris) and Fred Kerley (100 m bronze), and ex-Florida star Joseph Fahnbulleh (LBA).
● Men/800 m: Paris winner Emmanuel Wanyonyi (KEN) against runner-up and 2023 World Champion Marco Arop (CAN/silver), and American Record-setter Bryce Hoppel, among others.
● Men/1,500 m: Olympic champ Cole Hocker of the U.S. against 5,000 m Olympic champ Jakob Ingebrigtsen (NOR), with 2019 World Champion Timothy Cheruiyot (KEN) and the U.S.’s World Road Mile champ Hobbs Kessler.
● Men/110 m hurdles: Olympic winner Grant Holloway, runner-up Daniel Roberts, 2023 Worlds team member Cordell Tinch of the U.S. against Jamaica’s Rasheed Broadbell (bronze) and Tokyo 2020 Olympic champ Hansle Parchment.
● Men/Long Jump: Greece’s two-time Olympic winner Miltiadis Tentoglou dominated in Paris; Wayne Pinnock (JAM/silver) and Italy’s Mattia Furlani (bronze) will try to get closer.
● Women/High Jump: The entire podium is in, with winner Yaroslava Mahuchikh (UKR), silver medalist Nicola Olyslagers (AUS), and bronze winners Iryna Gerashchenko (UKR) and Eleanor Patterson (AUS).
● Women/Shot: Yemisi Ogunleye (GER) facing World Indoor winner Sarah Mitton (CAN) and two-time World Champion Chase Jackson of the U.S., who did not make the Paris final.
Look out for something special from Femke Bol, who finished third in the women’s 400 m hurdles, and the women’s 100 m hurdles has silver and bronze winners Cyrena Samba-Mayela (FRA) and Jasmine Camacho-Quinn (PUR), plus Americans Grace Stark (fifth) and Alaysha Johnson (seventh).
There’s a lot more. The meet will be shown in the U.S. on the Peacock streaming service on Thursday beginning at 2 p.m. A replay will be shown on Sunday at 2 p.m. Eastern on CNBC.
The next meet comes on Sunday in Chorzow, Poland, also on Peacock, beginning at 10 a.m. Eastern, with a same-day replay at 4 p.m. on CNBC.
The remaining Diamond League meets are on 30 August (Rome), 5 September (Zurich) and the final on 13-14 September in Brussels.
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