"Problem being, Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone is a genius, having moved across from the 400m hurdles for the challenge and looking like she's been running flat all her life. She was spectacularly good in the semis, devastating her personal best by half a second while barely seeming to make contact with the track, and if she gets it going today, Marita Koch's world record of 47.60 one of the oldest in the book, set in 1985 is under threat."
"We've various qualifying to enjoy women's 5000m featuring Faith Kipyegon, plus high jump and 800m, featuring Kelly Hodgkinson and Georgia Hunter Bell along with a pair of field finals men's javelin, women's triple jump. But it's the sprints that'll really get us going. First, we've the semi-finals of the women's 2o0m, as Sherickah Jackson of Jamaica takes on a powerful American contingent led by Melissa Jefferson-Wooden, the surging 100m champion."
"Meantime, in the men's competition, we get another look at Gout Gout, while Noah Lyles, Letsile Tebogo and Kenny Bednarek, the medal favourites, jostle for position. So far, so tantalising. Then, after the semis of what promises to be an extremely stressful set of men's 800m semis, just two from each heat to qualify, we've both 400m finals. First go the men, with Botswana's Collen Kebinatshipi having set down a marker out of nowhere, running a world-leading time in the previous round."
Night six features sprints, middle-distance, jumps and throws with multiple semi-finals and two 400m finals. Women's 200m semi-finals include Sherickah Jackson and Melissa Jefferson-Wooden, while men's sprints feature Gout Gout, Noah Lyles, Letsile Tebogo and Kenny Bednarek. Women's 5000m, high jump and 800m qualifying will include Faith Kipyegon, Kelly Hodgkinson and Georgia Hunter Bell. Men's javelin and women's triple jump are field finals. Men's 800m semis will be tight with only two qualifiers per heat. Collen Kebinatshipi and Zakithi Nene headline the men's 400m, and Mariledy Paulino, Salwa Eid Naser and Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone shape the women's 400m with a potential world record challenge.
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