Diamond League season opens with Olympic rematches in Doha; TV, live stream schedule

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The primary Diamond League observe and area meet of 2022 will conjure Olympic reminiscences with eight occasions that includes clashes between medalists from the Tokyo Video games.

Competitors in Doha airs reside on Peacock on Friday at 12 p.m. ET. CNBC airs protection Saturday at 10 a.m.

Olympic rematches embrace the boys’s excessive bounce (co-gold medalists Mutaz Barshim and Gianmarco Tamberi) and 200m (gold medalist Andre De Grasse and bronze medalist Noah Lyles) and girls’s 400m (gold medalist Shaunae Miller-Uibo and silver medalist Marileidy Paulino) and 100m hurdles (silver medalist Keni Harrison and bronze medalist Megan Tapper).

Most American athletes are making ready for June’s USATF Outside Championships, the place the highest three in most occasions qualify for July’s world championships on the similar web site in Eugene, Oregon. Some, like Lyles, have a bye into worlds as a reigning world champion or Diamond League champion.

Doha will present one of the best glimpse but this yr of medal prospects.

Here are the Doha entry lists. Right here’s the schedule of occasions (all occasions Jap):

11:10 a.m. — Males’s Pole Vault
11:23 — Girls’s Triple Bounce
11:25 — Girls’s Shot Put
12:04 — Girls’s 400m
12:15 — Males’s Excessive Bounce
12:17 — Girls’s 3000m
12:35 — Males’s 400m Hurdles
12:43 — Males’s Javelin
12:49 — Males’s 800m
1:02 — Girls’s 100m Hurdles
1:12 — Males’s 200m
1:23 — Males’s 1500m
1:36 — Girls’s 200m
1:47 — Males’s 3000m Steeplechase

Listed below are 5 occasions to observe:

Males’s Pole Vault — 11:10 a.m. ET
Olympic champion Mondo Duplantis, a Louisiana-raised Swede, already upped his world file by one centimeter on two separate events in March. He opens his out of doors season in Doha towards American Chris Nilsen, who took silver in Tokyo. Nilsen was the final man to win a pole vault competitors with Duplantis within the area, at a post-Tokyo Diamond League meet, and in addition beat him on the 2019 NCAA Championships.

Girls’s 400m — 12:04 p.m. ET
Miller-Uibo of the Bahamas leads a area of 4 of the highest 5 finishers from Tokyo, lacking solely bronze medalist Allyson Felix. Miller-Uibo’s lone defeat over one lap for the reason that 2017 World Championships was on the 2019 Worlds to Bahrain’s Salwa Eid Naser, who’s banned into 2023 in a case of missed drug exams from 2019. The Dominican Republic’s Paulino, a 100m/200m runner pre-pandemic, lowered her private finest by .79 of a second in Tokyo. Her last time — 49.20 — would have received gold on the earlier 4 Olympics, however was nonetheless a distant .84 behind Miller-Uibo. In her one race up to now this yr, Paulino lowered her private finest within the 200m.

Males’s 400m Hurdles — 12:35 p.m. ET
5 of the highest six from the Tokyo Olympics, however lacking gold medalist and world-record smasher Karsten Warholm. American Rai Benjamin, who additionally went beneath the world file in Tokyo, possible won’t face Warholm earlier than July’s worlds. He’ll nonetheless face a problem in Doha in Brazilian Alison dos Santos, the third-fastest man in historical past together with his Olympic bronze-medal efficiency.

Males’s 200m — 1:12 p.m. ET
How will De Grasse and Lyles reply to 18-year-old Erriyon Knighton‘s 19.49-second scorcher from two weeks in the past? Knighton, fourth on the Olympics, zoomed previous each males into fourth place on the all-time listing behind Usain Bolt, Yohan Blake and Michael Johnson. De Grasse clocked a personal-best 19.62 right into a headwind to win the Olympics. Lyles ran 19.50 in 2019 after which 19.52 two weeks after the Olympic last. Each could possibly be upstaged in Doha by Olympic 100m silver medalist Fred Kerley, who ranks within the high three up to now this yr within the 100m, 200m and 400m.

Males’s 3000m Steeplechase — 1:47 p.m. ET
The day’s last occasion options one of the best area of the meet — the highest 5 from the Olympics. Morocco’s Soufiane El Bakkali took gold in Tokyo within the absence of Kenyan Conseslus Kipruto, who received the 2016 Olympics, 2017 Worlds and 2019 Worlds. Kipruto didn’t end the Kenyan Olympic Trials and, up till putting fifth in a Saturday race, had not completed a steeple since successful the 2019 World title by one hundredth of a second. Kipruto just isn’t within the Doha area, however silver medalist Lamecha Girma of Ethiopia and bronze medalist Benjamin Kigen of Kenya are.

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