Paris (AFP)

New US star Noah Lyles and Jamaican Olympic champion Elaine Thompson on the sprint, a fight for the 18m triple jump and most French stars will try to illuminate the new track Charléty Stadium on Saturday for the League meeting. Paris Diamond, one month away from the Doha Worlds (September 27-October 6).

- 200 m men: Lyles discovers Paris -

The young American Noah Lyles (22 years old) entered a new dimension by slamming a monumental chrono (19 sec 50) over 200 meters on July 5 in Lausanne, becoming the 4th fastest rider in history over the distance. Against defending Turkish World Champion Ramil Guliyev and Nigerian Divine Oduduru, Lyles is in action for the first time in Paris and enters the final stretch of his season which theoretically leads him to the world title in Doha, the first major international competition. of her career. The Frenchman Christophe Lemaitre hopes to take advantage of this very high level race to finally achieve the minima requested by the IAAF (20.40) to snatch his ticket for Qatar at the individual level.

- Women's 100m: Thompson to impress -

After an average 2018 season, Olympic champion Elaine Thompson came home with her title at the Jamaican Championships in 10 sec 73 in June. A win over Dutch double world medalist Dafne Schippers and Ivorian vice-world champion Marie-Josée Ta Lou would strengthen her favorite status ahead of the Worlds.

- Triple jump men: dial 18 -

A duel should be drawn close to the mythical barrier of 18 m between Christian Taylor, Olympic champion and world champion in title, and his dolphin on these two events Will Claye. Taylor dreams of getting into the history of his sport by defeating British record holder Jonathan Edwards (18.29m in 1995). But this year it was Claye who shone by becoming the third performer in history (18.14 m). The two Americans will be accompanied by their compatriot Omar Craddock (17.68 m this season) and the rising value of the discipline, the Burkinabe Hugues-Fabrice Zango (17.50 m in 2019).

- 110 m hurdles: life-size repetition for PML -

Without the king of the specialty, the Jamaican Omar McLeod, but with the young American Grant Holloway (21 years), best performer of the season (12 sec 98), the Russian Sergei Shubenkov, world champion 2015, and the Spaniard Orlando Ortega, 2nd of the 2016 Olympic Games, Pascal Martinot-Lagarde will be entitled to Charléty to a sort of general rehearsal of the Worlds. This is good for PML, blocked at 13 sec 34 in 2019 and who would like to go down a little time to go to Qatar free spirit.

- Ultimate settings for Lavillenie, Bosse and Mayer -

Renaud Lavillenie, Pierre-Ambroise Bosse and Kevin Mayer already have their tickets in hand for the Worlds but they need to reassure themselves before the big appointment of the season. The world record holder for the pole vault (6.16m) is currently observing by far the high-altitude battle fought by Sam Kendricks, Piotr Lisek and the prodigy Armand Duplantis, the only ones to have fluttered around the world. above 6 meters this year. Lisek and Duplantis will not be in Charléty but Lavillenie, who will tackle Doha in the only title missing from his huge record, would like to go higher than the 5.85 m cleared July 28 at the French Championships, just to boost his morale .

It is a 800 m hardly raised that awaits Bosse, only 42nd performer of the season (1 min 45 sec 43). But the world champion, who has played only 3 races in 2019, especially needs to run.

Mayer turned him into an organizer to set up a triathlon with "combinards" (weight, length, 110m hurdles). A novelty that the world champion of the decathlon would like to see continued in the future on the circuit of the Diamond League.

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