André Giraud has been elected President of the French Athletics Federation (FFA) to replace Bernard Amsalem.

Points make prizes in Zurich’s Letzigrund Stadium tomorrow night as it stages the first of the two finals for this season’s International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Diamond League - but there’s some keen personal rivalry going on too.

Kendra Harrison, who broke the 28-year-old world 100 metres hurdles record last month after failing to qualify at the US Olympic track and field trials, is heading into tomorrow’s International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Diamond League meeting in Paris with another world record in mind.

Kendra Harrison of the United States, who broke the 28-year-old world 100 metres hurdles record of 12.21sec in London last month with a time of 12.20 after failing to qualify in the US Olympic Track and Field trials, offered evidence of what Rio missed tonight as she defeated a strong field in 12.42 at the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Diamond League meeting in Lausanne.

Don’t ask me about Rio de Janeiro because I don’t know the city and I never will, even though I am here to cover the Olympic Games.

Two emerging 22-year-old talents came of age here tonight as Jamaica’s effervescent Omar McLeod won the men’s 110m hurdles and Faith Kipyegon of Kenya outsprinted Ethiopia’s world champion Genzebe Dibaba to take the women’s 1500m gold.

Heavy rain delayed fourth day of evening athletics session here – but it was worth the wait as it provided the host nation, and a delirious home crowd, with one of the great Olympic shock victories as 22-year-old pole vaulter Thiago Da Silva set an Olympic Games record of 6.03 metres to defeat the defending champion and world record holder Renaud Lavillenie and secure a second gold medal for Brazil at Rio 2016. 

Usain Bolt’s last race before he defends his Olympic 100 and 200 metre titles in Rio will be the high point of interest at the two-day International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) London Diamond League meeting which starts tomorrow.

The Netherlands’ world 200 metre champion Dafne Schippers lifted the home mood at the 23rd European Championships here as she delivered a fervently anticipated victory in the women’s 100m final.

The focus of attention at the European Athletics Championships, due to get underway here tomorrow, has fallen upon an athlete who is due to run for no country - Yuliya Stepanova, the doping cheat turned whistleblower on Russian doping activities, who is on the list for the 800 metres under a neutral flag.

The Olympic aspirations of David Rudisha, the defending 800 metres champion, received an unexpected jolt on a rain-swept evening in Stockholm’s 1912 Olympic Stadium as he could only finish fourth in the concluding event of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Diamond League meeting.

For some athletes, six years represents their top class career but for Susanna Kallur, Sweden’s injury-plagued former European 100 metres hurdles champion, that is the timespan since she last competed.

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.

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.

Olympic champions David Rudisha and Renaud Lavillenie suffered unexpected defeats in a dramatic evening of action at the International Association of Athletics Federations’ second Diamond League meeting of the season in Shanghai.