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Paris Athletics Meeting: three world records and a crazy evening in Charléty

2023-06-09T21:32:37.966Z

Highlights: One year before the Olympic Games at home, the Paris athletics meeting was full in Charléty. A crazy evening in the heart. The b-boys and b-girls who dream of participating in the Paris Olympics, make their demonstration of breaking in one of the corners. At nightfall, Dominican Marileidy Paulino, vice-world champion, steals the show in the 400m from American star Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone. Less than an hour after the Norwegian moment, it was the Kenyan Faith Kipyegon, who only a week later had broken the world record of the 1,500 m.


One year before the Olympic Games at home, the Paris athletics meeting was full in Charléty. A crazy evening in the heart


What does an American track and field star do when she arrives in Paris, a year before the Olympics? She asks where to get Phryges, the Phrygian cap-shaped mascots, and to see the France Stadium, whose future purple track is beginning to intrigue.

Coming to France with his father, who intended to scout hotels for the summer of 2024, double world champion in the 110m hurdles Grant Holloway is already projecting. While waiting to tread the Olympic track, the American flew over the race by winning in 12′'98, ahead of Frenchman Just Kwaou-Mathey (13′'09), who signed the 3rd French performance of all time in the 110m hurdles.

"You feel that people love athletics, especially when the Olympics are coming," says Kevin Mayer - winner of the triathlon (15.31m in the shot put; 13′'70 in the 110m hurdles and 7.26m in the long jump) - to the public. One year before the biggest sporting event in the world, the Charléty athletics meeting was sold out, with 17,803 spectators.

"I'm a real fan of athletics, I came for the Norwegian Jakob Ingebrigtsen, but I wanted to see what the French gave before the Olympics," says Cynthia, from Pontoise. "It was easier to get tickets for the meeting than for the Games," laughs Bertrand, a "true fan" of athletics.

Even if the French athletes remain on a sad record at the World Championships (only one gold medal, last year, in the decathlon thanks to Kevin Mayer), athletics, the flagship sport of the Olympics, is really popular.

The French federation had for the occasion concocted a dream line-up. With a first blow of brilliance around 20:50, when the youngest of the Ingebrigtsen brothers, Jakob, electrifies the track to capture, alone, the world record of the 2 miles (7′54′'10). "It was a world record time," says the Norwegian, the new prodigy of the world middle distance.

Faith Kipyegon is decidedly unstoppable!! The Kenyan breaks a new world record, this time in the 5000m!
A last round of madness for an XXL
performance
Follow the competition live here> https://t.co/HVE6rPoeAb #lequipeATHLE pic.twitter.com/7WGHuSFHRY

— the channel L'Équipe (@lachainelequipe) June 9, 2023

The performance was certainly expected, but the public does not yet know that it will live a completely crazy evening, one of those sports evenings that we do not forget. "Record time" announced by Ingebrigtsen will give ideas to others. Less than an hour after the Norwegian moment, it was the Kenyan Faith Kipyegon, who only a week later had broken the world record of the 1,500 m, took that of the 5,000 m (14′04′'20).

Tears run down her cheeks, the thermometer shows a temperature of 28 degrees and the atmosphere goes up a notch again. The b-boys and b-girls who dream of participating in the Paris Olympics, make their demonstration of breaking in one of the corners, the spectators exult. At nightfall, Dominican Marileidy Paulino, vice-world champion, steals the show in the 400m from American star Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, Olympic and world champion in the 400m hurdles, to whom the organizers had rolled out the red carpet.

In the 100m, Noah Lyles (9′'97) made Italian Olympic champion Marcell Jacobs bite the dust. No matter, because a few minutes later, the green light, which all around the track punctuates the strides of middle-distance runners launched on the bases of a world record, will still flash. This time, it is the Ethiopen Lamecha Girma, Olympic vice-champion of the specialty, who is 22 years old explodes the best mark of all time in the 3,000 m steeplechase (7′52′'12).

Lamecha Girma breaks the world record in the 3000m steeplechase! What a night in Charlety! The 22-year-old Ethiopian achieves an extraordinary

performance The 800m to follow very soon> https://t.co/HVE6rPoeAb #lequipeATHLE pic.twitter.com/PppNMhitA6

— the channel L'Équipe (@lachainelequipe) June 9, 2023

"But where will this evening end?" says the speaker, while the nearly 18,000 spectators, standing, salute the feat of the Ethiopian lying on the tartan. Smartphones once again illuminate the Parisian night. "Extraordinary images that we offer to the whole planet, one year before the Olympic Games," continues one of the leaders of the meeting.

No world record on the final event of the evening, but a personal best for the Frenchman Benjamin Robert (1′43′'48), 5th in an 800m won by Kenyan Emmanuel Wanyonyi (1′43′'27), and who offers his ticket for the World Championships this summer in Budapest. We can't wait to be there, also looking forward to being at the Olympic Games in Paris, early August 2024. All that remains is to find tickets for the Stade de France.

Source: leparis

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