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Back on top ๐ ShaโCarri Richardson gets back to work with a strong run at the #ZurichDL 100m, taking down Olympic champ Julien Alfred with a 10.84 run on a wet evening in Switzerland. Richardsonโs start looked better than many of her rounds in Paris, allowing her top-end speed to
A bet is a bet ๐ค Karsten Warholm may not have contested the 400m hurdles in Zurich after feeling tightness in his hamstring in warmups, but the Norwegian nevertheless showed up in a Swedish competition kit after Mondo Duplantis took down his Scandinavian rival over 100 meters
๐ฃ๏ธ โI donโt want to repeat past mistakes or past feelings, so I think right now itโs about just talking to myself better and setting up a really good support system for myself and just being happy. I think those things need to come first before I can really be the best version
๐ฃ๏ธ โItโs been up and down. Still working on fine-tuning and still working on all that stuff.โ 100m Olympic champion Julien Alfred shares about how training has been going since Paris, her plan for the Diamond League Final in Brussels, and what sheโs looking forward to most when
๐ฃ๏ธ โIโm speechless right now. I didnโt think it could be done. You look at someone like Allen Johnson, Aries Merritt โ they were the pinnacle. Coming up in the sport, I never thought I could be what they did. Itโs like watching Michael Jordan in a sense. Youโre always like,
WHAT A BATTLE ๐ฑ Kung Fu Kenny makes Letsile Tebogo WORK to keep his win streak, with the American taking the Motswana Olympic champ to the line in the #ZurichDL 200m. Tebogo comes out with the win in 19.55 but Bednarek gets a lifetime best 19.57 in second, his second
ZURICH DIAMOND LEAGUE, MENโS 1500M: Yared Nuguse overtakes Jakob Ingebrigtsen on the home straight to hand the Norwegian a rare Diamond League loss, winning in 3:29.21. 1. ๐บ๐ธ Yared Nuguse โ 3:29.21 2. ๐ณ๐ด Jakob Ingebrigtsen โ 3:29.52 3. ๐บ๐ธ Cole Hocker โ 3:30.46 4. ๐ณ๐ฑ Niels
ZURICH DIAMOND LEAGUE, WOMENโS 100M HURDLES: Jasmine Camacho-Quinn flips the Olympic podium on its head to take the win in Zurich, running 12.36. 1. ๐ต๐ท Jasmine Camacho-Quinn โ 12.36 2. ๐ซ๐ท Cyrรฉna Samba-Mayela โ 12.40 3. ๐บ๐ธ Masai Russell โ 12.47 4. ๐บ๐ธ Grace Stark โ 12.49
๐ฃ๏ธ โAfter Paris, I just go back to training as normal and focus on the Diamond League. My focus was just to come and try a world record for 5000 again. Itโs not easy, but itโs good to try and see how it goesโฆ I will go back and prepare well. Itโs just a matter of time.โ
๐ฃ๏ธ โHe did a great thing yesterday. I wonโt be surprised if he goes 10.1 or 10.0. 10.3 in that condition yesterday, standing around, I give him a 10.0 or 10.1.โ Fred Kerley weighs in on Mondo Duplantisโs potential in the 100m after watching him defeat Karsten Warholm in yesterdayโs
๐ฃ๏ธ โThat was mentally very tiring. I donโt have a week-after-week time trial brain, so these races are kind of boring to me sometimes. Getting up for it was one thing. I was excited to race, Iโm in a good place, trainingโs been going wellโฆ But itโs a long year. Itโs tough to
๐ฃ๏ธ โThe stress is kind of off and now itโs just racing to race, racing to have fun, and getting to compete โ which is the best part of what we do.โ No pressure, no problem๐ชฟ With the Olympic 1500m bronze medal in his back pocket, Yared Nuguse is just out here having fun. And
๐ฃ๏ธ โItโs all about enjoying it. Without enjoying the races, I donโt think there would be these kind of times. Thereโs never going to be an enjoyable time on the track if you zone in so much.โ Keep doing you, Tebogo ๐ Letsile Tebogo has dominated race-after-race this season โ