The AG Memorial Van Damme Diamond League athletics meeting will be held behind closed doors due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

will consist of the 100 metres hurdles, shot put and high jump.Pole vault world record holder Armand Duplantis

As soon as the time of 18.90sec came up for the 200 metres during last month’s Inspiration Games - almost three tenths of a second faster than the world record of 19.19 set at the 2009 World Championships by Usain Bolt - it appeared obvious that something was amiss.

hurdles world champion Karsten Warholm, newly established world pole vault record holder Armand "Mondo" Duplantis

Swedish Olympic Committee (SOC) chief executive Peter Reinebo has said the country is hoping to secure between eight to 12 medals at the postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

well as judokas Tommy Macias and Anna Bernholm, and athletics representatives Daniel Ståhl, Armand Duplantis

Pole vault world record holder Armand Duplantis is set to headline the Internationales Stadionfest (ISTAF

also be available with the ISTAF a World Athletics Continental Tour meeting.Also confirmed alongside Duplantis

British four-time Olympic champion Mo Farah has set his sights on breaking the one-hour world record at the Wanda Diamond League event in Brussels in September.

competition will consist of the 100m hurdles, shot put and high jump.Pole vault world record holder Mondo Duplantis

Karsten Warholm achieved his mission at the Impossible Games in Oslo tonight as, running alone in a largely empty stadium – but watched worldwide via a live TV link – he marked the sport’s first big break-out from coronavirus lockdown with a world best for the 300 metres hurdles of 33.78sec.

Herculis event in Monaco, which has been re-scheduled for August 14.World pole vault record holder Mondo Duplantis

The largest and most significant athletics meeting of the pandemic-blighted year will take place with Oslo’s Bislett Stadium at its centre tomorrow night – the self-styled Impossible Games – with another similar event, the Inspiration Games, based in Zurich set to take place on July 9.

which will also include a pole vault including the top-ranked performers of all time, Sweden’s Mondo Duplantis

t.co/qPsrswlNBH pic.twitter.com/YDW5ZjVL8w— World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) June 10, 2020Meanwhile Duplantis

Haugen Lillefosse.Lavillenie, competing on the runway in his back garden as he did last month when he, Duplantis

The three top-ranked decathletes of the moment will step up to action on Sunday (June 7) in the third of the Ultimate Garden Clash events staged by World Athletics.

ending in a tie between world record holders past and present, Renaud Lavillenie of France and Mondo Duplantis

Timothy Cheruiyot will lead a team of five Kenyan runners in a virtual 2000 metres race as part of the Impossible Games, a behind-closed-doors Diamond League event primarily in Oslo.

Norway's double world champion Karsten Warholm and a pole vault contest between world record holder Armand Duplantis

Katerina Stefanidi, Greece’s reigning Olympic pole vault champion, won the second of the World Athletics Ultimate Garden Clash events today as she managed 34 clearances of 4.00 metres in the space of half an hour in exhausting heat at her local track in Athens.

Ultimate Garden Clash on May 3.London 2012 champion Renaud Lavillenie, world record holder Armand 'Mondo' Duplantis

may have been the fact that he was taking a 14-step run-up, while Lavillenie was on nine steps and Duplantis

As someone who grew up supporting West Ham United I have long been familiar with the concept of footballers social distancing - it used to be a speciality of my team’s defenders at corner kicks.

triumphantly demonstrated by the self-styled Ultimate Garden Clash involving Renaud Lavillenie, Armand 'Mondo' Duplantis

World Athletics President Sebastian Coe says meetings may have to take place in empty stadiums as the sport attempts to return to normality in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.

self-styled Ultimate Garden Clash, which took place on May 3, involving Renaud Lavillenie, Armand 'Mondo' Duplantis

Three of the world's top female pole vaulters are set to take part in the second Ultimate Garden Clash on May 16.

first Ultimate Garden Challenge which featured three of the world's top male pole vaulters - Mondo Duplantis

Global Association of International Sports Federations (GAISF) President Raffaele Chiulli has praised efforts of International Federations to engage with athletes and fans during the coronavirus crisis.

saw French Olympic gold medallist pole vaulter Renaud Lavillenie, Sweden’s world record-holder Mondo Duplantis

Apart from halting most sport, the lockdown so widely applied amidst the current COVID-19 pandemic has also changed it profoundly. Suddenly all sport is nostalgic.

further down the plot.Meanwhile, on the other side of the Atlantic, the new world record holder, Mondo Duplantis

event.Well I say that – but the result did seem to matter quite a lot at the end, as Lavillenie and Duplantis