Watch the Diamond League track & field meet from Rome

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· Posted: Jun 05, 2025 11:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 4 minutes ago

Click connected the video subordinate supra opening connected Friday astatine 3 p.m. ET to ticker unrecorded enactment from the Diamond League way and tract conscionable successful Rome, Italy.

There volition beryllium nary shortage of prima powerfulness astatine the Diamond League circuit's latest stop, the Golden Gala Pietro Mennea in Rome.

The Stadio Olimpico volition big 14 events that volition award Diamond League points and the lineup includes 11 Olympic champions, 15 Diamond League champions, and a full of 62 medallists from the Olympics and satellite championships.

Here are immoderate of the cardinal events to ticker for erstwhile the lawsuit begins successful the Italian superior connected Friday astatine 3 p.m. ET connected CBCSports.ca and CBC Gem:

Men's 100m

The commencement database for this contest includes Tokyo Olympic metallic medallist and Paris 2024 bronze medallist Fred Kerley of the United States, arsenic good arsenic chap Americans Trayvon Bromell, Courtney Lindsay, and Brandon Hicklin.

The 4:38 p.m. ET contention volition besides diagnostic Italy's Filippo Tortu and Chituru Ali, Ferdinand Omanyala of Kenya, Japan's Abdul Hakim Sani Brown, and Cameroon's Emmanuel Eseme.

Watch each the enactment from Diamond League successful Rome beginning connected Friday at 3 p.m. ET connected CBCSports.ca and CBC Gem. Click present for the afloat broadcast schedule.

This season's world pb successful the 100 is held by American Kenny Bednarek, who ran to a clip of s 9.86 seconds at the Grand Slam Track halt successful Philadelphia past weekend.

Bednarek joined Trackside hosts Perdita Felicien and Aaron Brown this week to speech astir his newfound confidence, Grand Slam Track's occurrence truthful far, and his goals for this season.

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Women's discus

This lawsuit begins features 2 treble Olympic champions, Valarie Allman of the U.S. and Croatia's Sandra Elkasevic-Perkovic.

Also competing are three satellite champions: American Laulauga  Tausaga, Cuba's Yaimé Perez, and China's Feng Bin. Italy's Daisy Osakue, Germans Kristin Pudenz and Marike Steinacker, Jorinde Van Klinken of the Netherlands, and Sweden's Vanessa Kamga volition besides beryllium successful action.

Women's 5,000m

Two satellite grounds holders header the tract of 18 runners successful the women's 5,000m (3:31 p.m. ET): Ethiopia's Gudaf Tsegay owns the fastest time successful the 5,000 (14:00.21), portion Kenya's Beatrice Chebet has the grounds successful the 10,000 (28:54.14).

Men's 400m

A trio of Olympic champions volition vie successful the men's 400m successful Rome: Paris 2024 victor Quincy Hall of the U.S., London 2012 champion Kirani James of Grenada, and American Vernon Norwood, who's a two-time Olympic golden medallist in the 4x400m relay.

Also lining up for the 3:59 p.m. ET contention are South Africa's Zakithi Nene, Botswana's Collen Kebinatshipi, Belgium's Alexander Doom, Great Britain's Charlie Dobson, Hungary's Attila Molnar, and Italy's Edoardo Scotti.

For much accusation connected athletics events streaming unrecorded connected CBC Sports this season, click present to spot the afloat broadcast schedule.

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