Luke Phillips

1 week ago | barrons.com | Luke Phillips

Unheralded Azzedine Habz and Grace Stark lit up a drama-loaded Diamond League meet in Paris on Friday, snatching the limelight with two outstanding performances that put a raft of higher-profile athletes in the shade. Paris proved to be the perfect testing ground as athletes continue to fine-tune their form ahead of September's world championships in Tokyo.

1 week ago | barrons.com | Luke Phillips

Yaroslava Mahuchikh headlines the Diamond League meet in Paris on Friday as athletes continue to fine-tune their form ahead of September's world championships in Tokyo. Here, AFP Sport looks at four stand-out disciplines at the eighth meeting of the 15-event Diamond League circuit at the Stade Charlety:Mahuchikh has conquered the world of high jumping at the age of 23. The world and Olympic champion set the current world record of 2.10 metres at last year's Diamond League meet in Paris.

2 weeks ago | sports.yahoo.com | Luke Phillips

Karsten Warholm, Julien Alfred and Armand 'Mondo' Duplantis lit up Thursday's star-studded Diamond League meet in Oslo where Jamaican sprint legend Usain Bolt was on hand to lend further glitter to a gripping evening of track and field. Bolt, the 100 and 200m world record holder, had been introduced to the baying, sell-out 15,000-strong crowd in the Bislett Stadium by World Athletics president Sebastian Coe, who had himself set three world records at the Norwegian venue.

2 weeks ago | barrons.com | Luke Phillips

Armand 'Mondo' Duplantis headlines a star-studded Diamond League meet in Oslo on Thursday featuring eight other champions from the Paris Olympics. AFP Sport looks at five stand-out events at the sixth meeting of the 15-event Diamond League circuit where athletes have collectively won more than 15 individual Olympic gold medals and over 20 world championship golds:Julien Alfred made history at the Olympics last summer when she won a first ever medal for her tiny island homeland of Saint Lucia.

2 months ago | sports.yahoo.com | Luke Phillips

Armand 'Mondo' Duplantis heads up a stellar cast of athletes kicking off the 16th Diamond League season in Xiamen on Saturday amid a changing landscape that has seen Michael Johnson launch his Grand Slam track series. AdvertisementPetr Stastny, CEO of the Diamond League, insisted that he welcomed competition, but added he thought the 15-meet circuit he oversees was the "backbone" of global athletics, with a record US$9.2 million in prize money on offer.