A last-minute deal signed by the BBC means viewers in Britain will be able to watch Diamond League athletics streamed live on television – and also on the Wanda Diamond League YouTube – starting with tomorrow's opening meeting in Monaco.

Britons due to take part is former European 200 metres champion Adam Gemili, who will face world champion Noah

Lyles of the United States.The Stade Louis II venue will have a reduced capacity of 5,000 spectators

Willie Banks has donated to the World Athletics Heritage Collection the singlet and bib number he wore in 1985 when he set a world record for the triple jump that lasted a decade.

and four-time World Championship gold medallist Christian Taylor and America’s world 200m champion Noah

Lyles.

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.

been.It was nevertheless a startlingly good performance by the then-22-year-old world 200m champion Noah

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

— Noah Lyles (@LylesNoah) August 2, 2020On his 21st birthday, speaking on the eve of the Diamond League

Noah Lyles has something of the natural showmanship of Usain Bolt, the world 100m and 200m world record

The message is clear - if Noah Lyles can get depressed, anyone can get depressed.

briefly – but erroneously – to have produced an unfeasible world 200m best from Felix’s fellow American Noah

Lyles.

Lyles, despite running into a 3.7 metres-per-second headwind at his base in Bradenton, Florida, stopped

couple of minutes the explanation became clear.It was nevertheless a startlingly good performance by Lyles

Martina, who was timed at 20.81 running in blustery wind and 18C at Papendal in The Netherlands.Noah Lyles

metres ©Wanda Diamond League"I’ve been working really hard on running the bend and that felt fast," said Lyles

Organisers of the annual Weltklasse in Zurich are preparing for tomorrow’s staging of another international track and field event involving competitors in different venues – the Inspiration Games.

Felix, Katerina Stefanidi of Greece, Christian Taylor and Jamaica's Omar McLeod, and world champions Noah

Lyles and Sam Kendricks.Felix - Olympic 200 metres champion in 2012 and four times a world champion

Olympic pole vault champion Katerina Stefanidi, American world champion sprinter Noah Lyles and Jamaican

hurdlers Zuzana Hejnova of Czech Republic and Switzerland's Lea Sprunger in the 300 metres hurdles while Lyles

Top-tier Olympic sponsor Intel has announced the first four athletes who will represent the company en-route to the re-arranged Tokyo 2020 Games.

and Rio 2016.The double world champion, who retired in 2017, is joined by world 200 metres champion Noah

Lyles, who was the Youth Olympic gold medallist over the same distance in 2014.Two-time World Cup winning

 World 200m champion Noah Lyles has signed-up for Team Intel ©Getty Images"We look forward to supporting

Lyles added: "As I work towards qualifying for Tokyo next summer, it's inspiring to be able to team-up

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.

medallist Mujinga Kambundji will race on a home track.Other events will involve US world 200m champion Noah

Lyles in his principal distance and a 100 yard race involving Canada’s Olympic silver and bronze medallist

Noah Lyles donated his kit from the 2019 World Championships in Doha to the World Athletics Heritage

medals in the Qatari capital, triumphing in the 200 metre race and 4x100m relay.During his time in Doha, Lyles

 Lyles donated one of his singlets, a pair of socks and a signed bib number to the collection.

 Noah Lyles earned gold in the 200m and 4x100m events at the 2019 World Athletics Championships

World Athletics Heritage has thanked Lyles for his donation and is set to display his kit at exhibitions

The United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) has begun testing athletes virtually using video conference software in an effort to plug the gaps in the system caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

A total of 15 American athletes, including sprinter Noah Lyles and five-time Olympic swimming gold medallist

World Athletics has announced the launch of a new series designed to help people of all ages stay fit, active and engaged during the ongoing period of lockdown across the globe due to the coronavirus pandemic.

films to watch and music playlists from leading athletes, and includes the likes of American sprinter Noah

Lyles' pre-race tunes.On Monday (March 30), World Athletics confirmed that next year's World Championships

Eliud Kipchoge, the first man to run the marathon in under two hours, and Dalilah Muhammad, who twice broke the world 400 metres hurdles record in a year that saw her become world champion, have been named the respective male and female athletes of the year at the World Athletics Awards here.

of the United States, who retained his world pole vault title and cleared 6.06m, and his compatriot Noah

Lyles, who won the world 200m title and ran 19.50sec, the fourth fastest time in history.On the women

Among the many advantages of the International Association of Athletics Federations becoming World Athletics is the fact that it is three fewer words to say - or type.

without making the final, contains two more of the sport’s hottest young talents in world champions Noah

Lyles of the United States and Dina Asher-Smith of Britain.As an exasperated Tony Soprano might put

Gymnast Simone Biles, figure skater Nathan Chen and the American men’s 4x100 metres track and field team have been named as the winners of the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) Best of October awards.

America title last month ©Getty ImagesThe US men’s 4x100m team of Christian Coleman, Justin Gatlin, Noah

Lyles and Mike Rodgers took the gold medal at the International Association of Athletics Federations

Kenya's Brigid Kosgei, who broke Paula Radcliffe's 16-year-old marathon world record in Chicago last month, has been named as one of five finalists for the Female World Athlete of the Year 2019 award.

be announced at the World Athletics Awards in Monaco on November 23.Eliud Kipchoge, Sam Kendricks, Noah

Lyles, Joshua Cheptegei and Karsten Warholm were confirmed as the men's finalists yesterday.