Double Olympic 100 metres champion Elaine Thompson-Herah ran a Jamaican and Diamond League record of 10.54sec in Eugene to defeat a field including the two compatriots who joined her on the Tokyo 2020 podium and home sprinter Sha'Carri Richardson.

Noah Lyles clocked a 2021-leading 19.52sec in the men's 200m ©Getty ImagesGiven her earlier performance

unrelenting early pace, dropping down to 12th place in 4:05.92.In the men’s 200m the home 2019 world champion Noah

Lyles, who put a brave face on taking bronze in Tokyo behind winner Andre De Grasse of Canada and fellow

I don't think you understand how lifeless it was in Tokyo to have no crowd there," said Lyles.

Sifan Hassan is aiming to break the women’s 5,000 metres world record on the first of two days of stellar athletics in Eugene in Oregon in the United States that will conclude with the first Wanda Diamond League meeting since the Tokyo 2020 Games ended.

field along with home jumper Will Claye, who was fourth.The men’s 200m will include home sprinters Noah

Lyles and Kenny Bednarek, the respective Olympic silver and bronze medallists, along with the Olympic

Andre De Grasse held off three United States sprinters, including world champion Noah Lyles, to become

strongly in a national record of 19.62sec.Kenny Bednarek won silver in a personal best of 19.68, while Lyles

Alex Quiñónez, Ecuador’s 2019 world 200 metres bronze medallist, has been provisionally suspended for anti-doping whereabouts failures.

Championships, finishing behind silver medallist Andre De Grasse of Canada, who clocked 19.95, and winner Noah

Lyles of the United States, who recorded 19.83.He thus became only Ecuador’s second world medallist

World champions Noah Lyles and Grant Holloway safely proceeded to their respective 200 metres and 110m

following home 17-year-old prodigy Erriyon Knighton, who clocked 20.04.Knighton's winning time broke Lyles

with a minimum of effort after exerting himself in the 100m earlier in the trials.Erriyon Knighton, Noah

Lyles, and Fred Kerley show that speed early as they go 1-2-3 in their 200m heat!

Os9tY5KxCT— #TokyoOlympics (@NBCOlympics) June 25, 2021"Top two - there's no reason for me to gas out," said Lyles

Resurgent sprinter Trayvon Bromell lived up to his position as the fastest men’s 100 metres runner of the season as he claimed victory at the United States Track and Field Olympic trials in Eugene, Oregon in 9.80sec.

appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport against a five-year ban ©Getty ImagesWorld 200m champion Noah

Lyles, who had qualified with 9.97 in the semi-final, missed out as he finished seventh in 10.05, one

Sha'Carri Richardson produced two sub-10.80sec 100 metres times at the USA Track & Field Golden Games at Walnut, California, on a day when National Football League wide receiver DK Metcalf ran respectably but unspectacularly in his first meeting since high school.

number one spot on this year's world list.A surge over the final 10 metres earned world 200m champion Noah

Lyles victory in 19.90 ahead of fellow American Kenny Bednarek, who clocked 19.94.In the women's 200m

National Football League (NFL) wide receiver DK Metcalf looks likely to earn the headlines one way or another at tomorrow's USA Track and Field (USATF) Golden Games in Walnut in California.

10.05 or better to earn an automatic invitation to the US Olympic trials.World 200 metres champion Noah

Lyles will make his season's debut at that distance in tomorrow's World Athletics Continental Tour meeting

in Walnut, Califormia ©Getty ImagesWorld 200 metres champion Noah Lyles will open his season at that

Tokyo 2020 places are the target at the World Athletics Relays which starts tomorrow in Chorzow, Poland - while for the organisers the aspiration will be the staging of the sport’s World Championships.

Yokohama, where Paulo André Camilo de Oliveira held off the US' fast-finishing future world 200m champion Noah

Lyles by just 0.02sec.Four other nations already qualified for Tokyo 2020 are involved - France, Japan

Wayde van Niekerk has changed coach as he steps up preparations for his 400 metres Olympic title defence in Tokyo.

ImagesVan Niekerk's training partners at his new base in Florida will include America's 200m world champion Noah

Lyles and women's 400m Olympic champion, Bahamian athlete Shaunae Miller-Uibo.The 28-year-old has been

World 800 metres champion Donavan Brazier shaved one hundredth of a second off his own United States indoor record in New York as he equalled the fourth-fastest time ever, held by Emmanuel Korir of Kenya since 2018.

finish two metres clear in 6.50, with fellow American Demek Kemp second in 6.65.World 200m champion Noah

Lyles had warmed up for his specialist distance by running in the 60m heats, although he had said he

Michael Norman, denied the official world indoor 400 metres record on a technicality in 2018 after recording 44.52sec, has the chance to earn a valid one in New York tomorrow.

set as an under-20 athlete in 2013 and perhaps head towards sub-50sec territory.World 200m champion Noah

Lyles and world 800m champion Donovan Brazier are among other leading names competing.Lyles plans to

world best in 2019.His 800m rivals will include Britain's Jamie Webb, a European indoor runner-up.Like Lyles

Record-breakers Armand Duplantis of Sweden and Uganda's Joshua Cheptegei are among the competitors in the running for the Male World Athlete of the Year after World Athletics published the 10-strong shortlist for the award.

Donavan Brazier, Ryan Crouser and Noah Lyles of the United States, Kenya's Timothy Cheruiyot, Jacob Kiplimo

shortlist.Stahl won 17 of his 19 discus competitions and threw a world-leading 71.37m, while American sprinter Lyles

Karsten Warholm came agonisingly close to breaking the world 400 metres hurdles world record of 46.78 seconds at the Wanda Diamond League meeting in Stockholm, clocking 46.87 in a race where he had done everything right apart from knocking over the last hurdle.

round as she herself cleared 2.00, with Levchenko having to settle for 1.98.With world 200m champion Noah

Lyles having ended his season with his 2020 world-leading 19.76 clocking in Monaco, opportunities opened

Christian Taylor, the double Olympic and four-times world triple jump champion, is in the line-up in Hungary tomorrow at the second World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting of the season.

of six world champions due to take part, four of whom are from the United States.World 200m champion Noah

Lyles returns to action after his 19.76sec clocking at last Friday’s opening Wanda Diamond League meeting

pic.twitter.com/JZ3pkbFZ2s— Continental Tour Gold (@ContiTourGold) August 18, 2020Meanwhile Josephus Lyles