Rai Benjamin claimed the spoils in a clash of the hurdling titans at Friday's Monaco Diamond League as Djamel Sedjati and Quincy Hall both set world leads in perfect fine-tuning for the Paris Olympics. Another stunning night of track and field in perfect conditions at the Stade Louis II saw Norway's Jakob Ingebrigtsen set a European record of 3min 26.73sec in the 1500m.
Karsten Warholm insisted on Thursday he would not be using a magic wand in his bid to defend his Olympic 400m hurdles title at the Paris Games in three weeks. Warholm, 28, smashed the world record to win gold in the Tokyo Olympics, clocking a stunning 45.94 seconds to win ahead of American Rai Benjamin (46.17) and Brazil's Alison Dos Santos (46.72).
The American sprinter opted to stay home in order to better prepare his upcoming Olympic assault and will miss out on the Monaco meet, now featuring Norwegian world record holders Karsten Warholm and Jakob Ingebrigtsen as headliners.
The 35-year-old marathoner may advance his retirement due to the seven-year punishment from the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) announced on Wednesday. His case joins other recent ones, such as Mehdi Frere, also revealed this week.
Kenya's Faith Kipyegon delivered a perfect boost for the Paris Olympics by breaking her own world record in the women's 1500m at the Paris Diamond League on Sunday.
British sprint hurdler Andrew Pozzi has announced "with great sadness" his retirement from athletics following "a serious ankle fracture", meaning he will not compete at the upcoming Olympics in Paris.
Less than three weeks before the start of the Olympic athletics competition, Paris will host the eighth meeting of the Diamond League this Sunday, a competition that, with Sebastian Coe at the helm of world athletics, is losing its old magic with too many meetings and many of the best athletes missing.
Shot putter Amelia Campbell is among the numerous British athletes who have met the World Athletics ranking criteria but were not selected for the Paris Olympics team due to stringent UK Athletics standards.
Neeraj Chopra returned home to India a national hero after winning Olympic javelin gold in 2021 but the farmer's son has never forgotten his humble roots. The 26-year-old will defend his title in Paris, having made history in Tokyo three years ago with India's first Olympic track and field gold ever.
Reigning South African 400m champion Lythe Pillay booked a spot at the Paris Olympic Games last April after dethroning 2023 winner Wayde van Niekerk --the South African that has inspired Pillay to take on the international stage.
Transgender and nonbinary runner Nikki Hiltz qualified for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, clocking in a time of 3:55:33 in the women's 1500m race at the US Olympic Trials Sunday: breaking Elle St. Pierre's trials record of 3:58.03, set in 2021. Hiltz is not the first transgender non-binary person to compete at an Olympics --Canadian football player Quinn, who competed at Tokyo 2020, was the first openly transgender and nonbinary athlete to participate and win a medal at the Games.
The last time she raced the 400metres hurdles at Hayward Field in the 2022 championships, the New Jersey native set the world record at 50.68 seconds. On Sunday, she smashed her own mark by clocking three hundredths of a second less in order to book her spot at the Paris 2024 Games.
After imposing her will on the 100metre race on Friday, the Jamaican sprinter won the 200m final on Sunday at the Caribbean country's athletics trials and set up her sprint double gold bid at the upcoming 2024 Games.
The star pole vaulter who smashed the 21-year-old record by the great Sergey Bubka will miss out on the 2024 Olympics on his home turf after failing to achieve the qualifying height in his final chance at the French championships on Sunday.
Noah Lyles won the final of the 200-metre dash Saturday, which will allow him to fight for the speed double at the Paris Games, as Sha'Carri Richardson's dreams of an Olympic sprint double ended in disappointment at the US trials. The world champion of the 100m had looked poised to claim at least a top-three finish in the women's 200m after the Texan had shone in the semifinals on Friday with a time of 21.92.