Additional Diamond League conferences to finish off an exhilarating 2024 season

The Paris 2024 Olympics might need come to an end–nevertheless the 2024 observe season is approach from over. There are nonetheless 4 Diamond League conferences between now and the Diamond League final in Brussels on Sept. 13, the first as early as subsequent Thursday, Aug. 22 in Lausanne, Switzerland. No matter a very prolonged season, many athletes are desperate to proceed the momentum set in motion in Paris–or to hunt redemption in the event that they didn’t receive their Olympic aims.

The Lausanne meeting will see one different 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 podium completely.

Crew USA’s Athing Mu will seemingly be desperate to re-establish her dominance throughout the 800m, after a crash at U.S. Olympic trials saved her from defending her Olympic title. (Newly-crowned Olympic champion Keely Hodgkinson received’t be competing.)

Canada’s private Olympic 800m silver medallist, Marco Arop, will as quickly as as soon as extra face off in the direction of Olympic champion Emmanuel Wanyonyi of Kenya. Arop ran 1:41.20 in Paris and is the fittest he has ever been, so this may increasingly undoubtedly be one different very shut race.

Josh Kerr and Yared Nuguse might be a part of Hocker and Ingebrigtsen as soon as extra in Zürich on Sept. 5, reuniting the Olympic quad that gave the world in all probability essentially the most epic (and quickest) Olympic 1,500m final in historic previous. The 4 males will battle for a Diamond League title and USD $30,000 in prize money.

Current off a world report in Paris, the Olympic and world champion pole vaulter Mondo Duplantis is dropping no time returning to opponents; will yet one more world report be on his radar in Switzerland?

Proper right here’s a take a look on the the rest of the 2024 Diamond League meeting schedule: