We’re into September, which means the 2024 track season is drawing to an end. But before we say goodbye, there are still two big-time Diamond League meets remaining: Thursday’s Weltklasse Zurich (2-4 pm ET), and next week’s Diamond League final (Friday-Saturday) at the Memorial Van Damme in Brussels.
There are a couple of massive Olympic rematches in Zurich, with world champ Sha’Carri Richardson against Olympic champ Julien Alfred in the women’s 100 and a stacked men’s 1500 featuring Jakob Ingebrigtsen, Cole Hocker, Yared Nuguse, and Josh Kerr. The women’s 5,000 is worth a watch as well as Olympic champ Beatrice Chebet is rumored to be attacking the world record of 14:00.21 set last year by Gudaf Tsegay.
There’s also a fun 100-meter showdown between hurdles star Karsten Warholm and pole vault god Mondo Duplantis. LetsRun.com will claim a little credit for helping nudge this race into reality. When we were in Zurich last year, we asked the two at the pre-meet press conference if they would actually get together and race at some point and it was clearly a topic that excited both men, with
My winning time prediction: 10.38. These guys have to be faster than the fastest woman in history.
And the winner? Warholm is a professional runner so I think he wins, but my boss Robert Johnson thinks Mondo will crush Warholm. Rojo reminds me that Duplantis ran 10.57 (+2.1 m/s) for 100m in high school and said last year he’d be surprised if he can’t break 10.30 whereas Warholm has a 10.49 pb from when he was
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