Thursday, July 25, 2024

London Athletics Meet 2024

25 July 2024

On Saturday we were back at the London Stadium in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in East London for the Diamond League London Athletics Meet. We were part of a crowd of 60,000 watching some of the top athletes in the world in their final warm-up for the Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games. As at last year’s London Athletics Meet (reviewed here in July 2023), the stand-out performance was Femke Bol of the Netherlands in the Women's 400m Hurdles who looks on course both to win the Olympic title and to break the world record. Among the British Olympic hopefuls, Keely Hodgkinson ran the fastest 800m time since Caster Semenya in 2018, with Jemma Reekie and Georgia Bell making a British 1-2-3. And Matthew Hudson-Smith beat his own European 400m record to move to the top of the world rankings. It’s going to be interesting to watch them all compete in Paris.

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