No more so than in perhaps the most keenly anticipated event on the programme, the women’s 200 metres, which brings together Jamaica’s Olympic champion Elaine Thompson and the Dutchwoman who she beat by just 0.10sec in Rio, world champion Dafne Schippers. 

Thompson’s compatriot Veronica Campbell-Brown, the 34-year-old Olympic 2004 and 2008 champion, and the American sprinter who won the London 2012 200m title, 30-year-old Allyson Felix, will also be involved.

That is what you call an all-star gathering - and a stellar performance looks in the offing.

"The track is fast, the curves are wide," said Campbell-Brown, for whom, strangely, this will be a first 200m run in Zurich.

"Something crazy could happen out there tomorrow."

It was on this track two years ago that Schippers confirmed her transition from a very good heptathlete to a great sprinter as she earned the 100/200m double at the European Athletics Championships.

"This is where I won my European titles in 2014, so I have very special memories of Zurich," she said.

As far as the Diamond Trophy for the overall best performance in this event is concerned, Schippers only needs to compete and show fitness to win, such is her points lead.

She is one of five in Zurich whose lead is more than 20 points - which is the maximum anyone can win on a night which, like the second part of the final in Brussels on September 9, sees the normal points totals doubled.

France’s Renaud Lavillenie is set to win a seventh Diamond Trophy and will become the only athlete, male or female, to finish top overall in their event on every occasion since the Diamond League began in 2010.

Other athletes who will, barring accident or injury, be getting their hands on Diamond Trophies will be American world 100m hurdles record holder Kendra Harrison, Serbia's Olympic long jump bronze medallist Ivana Spanovic and Olympic 2012 and 2016 discus champion Sandra Perkovic, who is set for a fifth consecutive overall victory.

Three other athletes have built up such significant leads that they also look odds on overall winners in Zurich. 

Olympic 400m bronze medallist and former champion LaShawn Merritt of the US has a 12-point lead over closest pursuer Isaac Makwala of Botswana, meaning he needs only to finish in the top three to secure his third title.

Likewise, Diamond Trophy holders Ruth Beitia and Christian Taylor look likely to retain their titles, holding 14 and 16-point leads respectively over their nearest challengers. 

American Taylor would have to finish fifth in the triple jump to give Alexis Copello of Cuba a chance of winning the title, while Spain's Beitia would need to slump to sixth in the high jump to open the door for Levern Spencer of Saint Lucia.

Bahrain’s Olympic champion Ruth Jebet, who took six seconds off the world 3000m steeplechase record in last Thursday’s IAAF Diamond League meeting in Lausanne, needs to finish ahead of the Kenyan world champion and Olympic silver medallist Hyvin Kiyeng.

The men’s shot put is set to become one of the most compelling competitions of the night as Diamond Race leader Tom Walsh of New Zealand holds a four-point lead over world champion Joe Kovacs.

Kovacs’ US compatriot Ryan Crouser is without a chance of winning the Diamond Race, but the recently installed Olympic champion will be keen to put the record straight after Saturday’s defeat in Paris to Walsh, bronze medallist in Rio behind Kovacs.

Britain’s Laura Muir paid for her high ambition in a tactical 1500m final in Rio, but at last week’s IAAF Diamond League meeting in Paris she ran a 2016 world-leading national record of 3:55.22, inflicting a first defeat of the season on Olympic champion Faith Kipyegon of Kenya and moving her to 13th on the world all-time list.

Another victory from Muir would mean that she’d win the Diamond Race, but it won’t be an easy task as the field in Zurich contains 10 of the 12 finalists from Rio, including Kipyegon and US bronze medallist Jenny Simpson.

Meanwhile the meeting's opening event - not part of the Diamond Race on this occasion - took place at the city's main railway station this evening, the women's pole vault. 

Britain's Holly Bradshaw produced her best effort in three years, a first-time clearance of 4.76m, to earn surprise victory over a field which included the Olympic gold and silver medallists, respectively Ekaterini Stefanidi of Greece and Sandi Morris of the United States. 

Stefanidi could only manage 4.71m, and although Morris also cleared 4,76, the Briton won by having had no failures up to that point.