Renaud Lavillenie plans to be in the Stade de France for his country’s opening match as hosts of Euro 2016 on Friday (June 10) - but first the Olympic pole vault champion has a job to do in Oslo’s Bislett Stadium as he seeks to extend his lead in the International Association of Athletics Federations’ Diamond League race.

Mo Farah rounded off the sixth meeting in the International Association of Athletics Federations’ Diamond League series at Birmingham with the home victory that was expected over 3,000 metres in a British record of 7min 32.62sec.

British Olympic champions Mo Farah and Greg Rutherford are among the home headline attractions for tomorrow’s meeting at the the Alexander Stadium in Birmingham, the sixth in the International Association of Athletics Federations’ Diamond League series.

Almaz Ayana who missed out on the women’s world 5,000m record by just over five seconds last month in Rabat, came, agonisingly, even closer here in an International Association of Athletics Federations’ Diamond League meeting as she stopped the clock at 14min 12.59sec.

The eyes of Italy’s athletics followers will be on the high jump competition at tomorrow night’s International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Diamond League meeting here in the Stadio Olimpico. 

World indoor high jump champion Gianmarco Tamberi has said that fellow Italian Alex Schwazer, the 2008 Olympic 50 kilometres walk champion, who returned from a four-year doping ban last month to win a gold medal at the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Race Walking Team Championships, should not have been allowed to represent his country, calling him “the Shame of Italy.”

Public opinion polls about the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic bid are running at more than 70 per cent in favour, according to the bid’s chief executive Etienne Thobois.

Bernard Lapasset, co-chairman of the Paris 2024 bid, says the proposed development of the Roland Garros tennis arena - including a roof on the Philippe Chatrier court and a replacement for the current No1 court - is not crucial to the bid’s chances, adding: “We don’t need it.”

Jurgen Klinsmann, coach of the United States football team that will play the opening match of the Copa America Centenario against Colombia in Santa Clara, California on Friday (June 3), has said the tournament - which will see the committed presence of Argentina's Lionel Messi - might be superior in quality to the European Championships that will start in France on June 10.

Two young female athletes went to the brink of world records at the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Diamond League meeting in Eugene, Oregon.

Mo Farah laid down a potent Olympic marker as he produced his third fastest ever 10,000m, 26min 53.71sec, to earn victory on the first of the two days of programmes at the International Association of Athletics Federations’ (IAAF) Diamond League meeting in Eugene.

World and Olympic 5,000 and 10,000 metre champion Mo Farah gets his Olympic season off and running in Eugene tomorrow night as he runs his first outdoor track race since retaining his world titles in Beijing last summer.