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Diamond League: Matthew Hudson-Smith set to resume Quincy Corridor rivalry in 400m

Nice Britain’s Matthew Hudson-Smith might be searching for revenge in opposition to Quincy Corridor as they renew their rivalry within the Diamond League in Lausanne on Thursday.

Corridor, 26, pipped Hudson-Smith to gold within the males’s 400m on the Paris Olympics by four-hundredths of a second.

Hudson-Smith, who was favorite for gold, improved his European file to 43.44 seconds however Corridor ran a private better of 43.40 to take victory.

Within the males’s 200m, Botswana’s Letsile Tebogo might be seeking to take his sensational Paris type with him to Switzerland as he takes on American pair Erriyon Knighton and Fred Kerley once more.

Tebogo, 21, was the shock winner of the 200m closing in Paris as he clocked an African file of 19.46 seconds to turn into Botswana’s first Olympic champion.

British duo Daryll Neita and Dina Asher-Smith will compete within the girls’s 100m, whereas Georgia Bell takes half within the 800m after profitable bronze within the 1500m in Paris.

Neita and Asher-Smith can even compete within the 100m within the Silesia Diamond League on Sunday.

Sweden’s Armand Duplantis, contemporary from his pole vault gold in Paris, might be seeking to go even increased in Poland after setting a brand new world file of 6.25m at Stade de France.

The Lausanne Diamond League might be proven dwell on BBC Two at 19:00 BST on Thursday, 22 August, whereas the Silesia Diamond League might be proven on BBC Two at 15:00 on Sunday, 25 August.

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