Noah Lyles, Keely Hodgkinson and Julien Alfred are among medal hopefuls that could become household names in Paris
It’s not just athletes in the latest super spikes who have a spring in their step at these Olympics. The whole of track and field does too. And the sport is increasingly not afraid to shout about it.,” said the World Athletics president, Sebastian Coe , on Thursday. “These will be exceptional Games with jaw-dropping sport and the most exceptional talents we have seen in any generation.”
A second series is being made and already it has its eyes on a number of intriguing new challengers. The 23-year-old Jamaican Kishane Thompson is the fastest man in the world this year, having run 9.77 sec, but has not raced on the Diamond League circuit in 2024. His compatriot Oblique Seville, also 23, is almost as quick. Are they the real deal? We will find out in the coming days.
There will be rivalries galore too. In the women’s 400m hurdles, Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone will probably break her world record. And she might need to if she is to beat the Dutch athlete Femke Bol. Meanwhile the men’s 400m hurdles features a rematch of the three musketeers – Karsten Warholm, Rai Benjamin and Alison Dos Santos – that so lit up Tokyo. But really you could pick any event on any given night, and find a story that will captivate the mind.
“We’re really going to battle for as many finals as we can,” he adds. “And at that point, the medals are going to be there for the taking.”
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