Nine months after their decision to share the Tokyo 2020 high jump title created one of the most beautiful moments in Olympic history, friends and rivals Gianmarco Tamberi of Italy and Qatar’s Mutaz Barshim converge again for tomorrow’s opening Wanda Diamond League meeting of the season in Doha.

Andre De Grasse will take on a field that includes the formidable US pairing of world 200m champion Noah

Lyles and Olympic 100m silver medallist Fred Kerley.Others in a stellar field include Italy’s Tokyo

Gusting winds at the USATF Bermuda Games caused world 110 metres champion Grant Holloway to pull out of what should have been his outdoor season opener after asking organisers in vain for the track to be "flipped".

men’s 100m, clocking 10.38 to finish ahead of 18-year-old Erriyon Knighton and his fellow American Noah

Lyles, the wind reading showed a headwind of 5.6 metres-per-second.Knighton, running in his first meeting

since missing an Olympic 200m medal by one place in Tokyo, clocked 10.39, with world champion Lyles,

Grant Holloway and Noah Lyles, who will defend their respective world 110 metres hurdles and 200m titles

The World Athletics Championships due to be held later this year in Eugene, Oregon will be the first to feature team trophies, Oregon22 have announced.

eight finishers in every event.United States' 200 metres Olympic bronze medallist and world champion Noah

Lyles is among elite athletes to have welcomed the idea of introducing team trophies to the World Athletics

I’m excited to hear that there will be team trophies for the countries in Eugene in 2022," said Noah

Lyles, the Olympic 200 metres bronze medallist and 2019 world champion from the United States."

Olympic pole vault champion Mondo Duplantis cleared a season's best of 6.05 metres before coming agonisingly close to a world record of 6.19m in Birmingham, following Olympic silver medallist Keely Hodgkinson's smashing of the British indoor 800 metres record.

7.11 ahead of home sprinter Daryll Neita, who recorded a personal best of 7.13.World 200m champion Noah

Lyles won the men's 60m on a photo finish from his fellow American Ronnie Baker as both men clocked

World champion and Tokyo 2020 silver medallist Grant Holloway, unbeaten in the 60m hurdles since 2014, maintained his omnipotence on the boards today at the New Balance Grand Prix in New York as he won in a 2022 world-leading mark of 7.37sec.

-20 champion and a Tokyo 2020 4x100m gold medallist, second in 7.11.In the men’s 60m, home sprinter Noah

Lyles, world champion and Tokyo 2020 bronze medallist at 200 metres, was last out of the blocks but

Ryan Crouser appeared to have raised his own indoor shot put world record to a massive 23.38 metres at the Millrose Games in New York City - only to hear that there had been a measurement error and his best effort was inside his past mark of 22.82m.

fifth in the Olympic final - third in 6.54 from the 200m Olympic bronze medallist and world champion Noah

Lyles, who clocked 6.62.Blanket finish in the @MillroseGames men’s 60m.

Olympic pole vault champion Mondo Duplantis started 2022 by winning with 6.02 metres in Karlsruhe at the first of this year’s World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold meetings - with world 100 metres champion Christian Coleman poised to return to action in the second tomorrow after his doping ban.

major appearance since February 2020 as he competes against a field which includes fellow Americans Noah

Lyles, the world 200m champion, and Trayvon Bromell, the 2016 world indoor champion.Duplantis had targeted

Of course the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Lifetime Achievement Award - which went last night to American gymnast Simone Biles - is about longevity of performance.

stepping away from social media is okay" ©USADAWorld 200 metres champion and Tokyo 2020 bronze medallist Noah

Lyles, sitting alongside Young-Craddock in the discussion, added his own view on social media."

Social media, Lyles said, is "a tool and like any tool it can be used for good or for bad", but that

I try to use that tool for good but it can definitely hurt," Lyles added.

World 200 metres champion Noah Lyles has spoken about why he decided to "break a stigma" last year in

Lyles, 24, who won Olympic bronze at the Tokyo 2020 Games before setting the fastest time in the world

— Noah Lyles, OLY (@LylesNoah) August 2, 2020Asked if he thinks many other Olympians are on anti-depressants

 Noah Lyles won 200m bronze at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics ©Getty Images"It’s literally like, 'why are

Lyles and his younger brother have since established the Lyles Brothers Sports Foundation to "empower

Lyles spoke at the TrueSport event alongside Sochi 2014 figure skating bronze medallist Gracie Gold and

TrueSport - the athlete support programme run by the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) - lived up to its name this week as it staged an extended discussion on Mental Wellness & The Young Athlete. Rarely can so much truth have been spoken by elite athletes.

Noah Lyles, the world 200 metres champion and Tokyo 2020 bronze medallist, Sochi 2014 ice skating bronze

coach Peter Early to this news was representative of many others: "I doubt anyone would have thought 'Noah

Lyles seems depressed'," he tweeted.

— Noah Lyles, OLY (@LylesNoah) August 2, 2020At this year’s Tokyo 2020 Olympics, in an empty stadium,

World 200m champion Noah Lyles shared his personal experience of mental health issues at last week's

Ecuador’s World Athletics Championships 200 metres bronze medallist Alex Quiñónez has been assassinated in his home city.

2019 World Championships in Doha, he won his only major medal as he took bronze in the 200m behind Noah

Lyles of the United States, and Andre De Grasse of Canada.Earlier in 2019, Quiñónez had won the gold

Double Olympic 100 metres champion Elaine Thompson-Herah, whose winning time of 10.54sec in Eugene last Saturday (August 21) was the second-fastest time ever, will seek to maintain her breath-taking form here tomorrow as the Diamond League moves on to the French capital.

and Olympic 100m silver medallist Fred Kerley, will do battle again.They will be joined by Josephus Lyles

, younger brother of world champion and Olympic bronze medallist Noah, who will be seeking to improve

A dizzying array of Olympic champions will be on show at the Stade de la Pontaise in Lausanne tomorrow night for the first of four European meetings that will bring this season's Diamond League to its conclusion, watched by an expected capacity crowd of 12,200.

layout of its track, with its wide, generous curves, has always aided fast sprinting.Two years ago Noah

Lyles ran his fastest 200m there, 19.50sec, and back in 1994 fellow American Leroy Burrell lowered the

It comes from the world 200 metres world champion, Noah Lyles, and it says this: "Noah without a crowd

= 19.74 Noah with a crowd = 19.52."

Bolt at the 2009 World Athletics Championships.Noah without a crowd = 19.74Noah with a crowd =19.52— Noah

Lyles, OLY (@LylesNoah) August 22, 2021Later that year, in the stifling heat of Doha, Lyles, who had

Peter Early to this news will no doubt have been widely shared: "I doubt anyone would have thought 'Noah

Until Eugene, where it seemed as if the real Noah Lyles stood up.Dang I’m so proud of my brother @josephus_lyles

pic.twitter.com/smX0YeURWr— Noah Lyles, OLY (@LylesNoah) August 22, 2021There was an earlier tweet in