Athletics: Duplantis and Thompson-Herah stars of Paris

In a well-stocked Charléty enclosure and a warm atmosphere, Armand Duplantis and Elaine Thompson-Herah were the two main protagonists of a Paris Meeting - canceled last year because of Covid-19 - rather poor in big three performances weeks after the Tokyo Olympics, despite a four-star cast with eight Olympic titles in Tokyo present in the stadium. Since her supersonic race (10''54) on August 22 in Eugene (United States), Thompson-Herah seems able to erase the sulphurous 100m world record of the American Florence Griffith-Joyner (10''49 in 1988). Failing to sweep away "

»Of the tablets, the queen of the Tokyo Olympics (3 titles out of 100, 200 and 4x100m) again set a very high level (10''72) on Saturday to crush the race, well ahead of her compatriot Shericka Jackson ( 10''97), bronze medalist in Tokyo.

Only six athletes have run this fast in the history of the straight line, although the Jamaican has trivialized this kind of performance for a month. "

", she reacted in zone mixed. "

"Inseparable this season, Thompson-Herah this time had to do without her great rival Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Olympic vice-champion in Tokyo, absent in Paris because"

"after having notably dominated Thompson-Herah in Lausanne on Thursday.

The two Jamaican stars, four Olympic titles over 100 m between them, are the headliners of a discipline in full chronometric boiling since the appearance of new generation shoes a few months ago that help performance.

Renaud Lavillenie far from the account

The world record was indeed attempted in pole vault, where the Swede Armand Duplantis wanted to improve his own mark of 6.18m established in February 2020. The Olympic champion, aged only 21, failed three times at 6, 19m despite the support of the public. He still won with a jump to 6.01m, his 6th competition over six meters this summer. He beat the Filipino John Ernest Obiena (5.91m) and the American Olympic vice-champion Chris Nilsen (5.81m). "

" said the Swede. "

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In the same competition, Renaud Lavillenie quickly lowered the flag to content himself with giving his advice to other pole vaulters, and in particular to Duplantis for his record attempts. The former French world record holder (6.16m) only managed to pass 5.30m (10th). Great form seems a long way off for him, who left frustrated with the Olympics (8th) where he had to deal with pain in his left ankle and then in his right foot (when warming up for the final). On the French side, Mélina Robert-Michon took 5th place in the discus (62.42m), Gabriel Tual finished 6th in the 800m (1'45''05) and Aurel Manga 5th in the 110m hurdles (13''40) where Pascal Martinot-Lagarde stopped his race after feeling pain in his left ischio. "

", explained the champion ofEurope. "

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