2024 Paris Olympic Track and Field Event-By-Event Previews
By LetsRun.com
We at LetsRun.com plan on writing extensive previews for all of the distance events and some of the sprints for the athletics competition at the 2024 Paris Olympics. We’ll compile them here and also link you to the previews from Athletics Weekly and World Athletics so you can find them all in one place.
LetsRun.com Previews
General: Who Has The Most to Gain and Lose On the Track at the 2024 Olympics? Noah Lyles and Grant Holloway could become legends with Olympic gold in Paris; with a loss, they’d go down as runners who could not win on the sport’s biggest stage.
*Men’s 100m: Noah Lyles v Kishane Thompson Reignites Jamaica-US Rivalry IS Bolt the next big US star or is he the Tyson Gay of 2024? The battle for the fastest man on Earth could come down to the world champion Lyles and the 23-year-old Jamaican Thompson, playing the role of Usain Bolt in 2008, appearing in his first global championship.
*Women’s 100m: Is This Sha’Carri Richardson’s Moment? Richardson is seeking to become the first American to win the women’s Olympic 100 since Gail Devers in 1996. Can St. Lucia’s Julien Alfred or any of the Jamaicans stop her?
*Men’s Marathon: An Epic Race on An Epic Course – Kipchoge, Bekele & A Monstrous Hill Oh baby, we can’t wait for this one. Kipchoge vs Bekele on an epic course as he seeks a historic 3-peat. Plus how will the field handle one of the toughest courses in professional marathoning history and could the runners be running sub-4 pace after mile 19 as it’s so downhill?
World Athletics Previews
*100 *200 *400 *100/110h *400h *800 *1500 *3000 Steeple *5000 *10,000 *Marathon *Combined Events *Race Walks
Athletics Weekly Previews & Predictions
*Sprints *Throws *Jumps *Mid-D & Distance
