MONACO, CMC – Trinidad and Tobago’s dash star Jereem ‘the Drem’ Richards will face a stern check within the males’s 200m on the Monaco Diamond League on Friday, squaring off towards American dash sensation Noah Lyles in his first half-lap race of the 2025 season.
Lyles has been sidelined since April 19 after operating a forty five.87 within the 400m on the Tom Jones Memorial meet.
He later withdrew from the Adidas Atlanta Metropolis Video games resulting from a “tight ankle,” elevating questions on his health.
Nevertheless, the Monaco occasion marks his extremely anticipated return to the 200m, a distance he has dominated within the Diamond League since 2019.
However Lyles and Richards received’t have it simple. Ready for them is the 2024 Paris Olympic champion, Letsile Tebogo of Botswana, who’s in blistering type.
Tebogo stormed to victory on the 2025 Prefontaine Traditional with a commanding 19.76, leaving the competitors in his wake.
The Monaco Diamond League may also characteristic a robust Caribbean contingent throughout a number of disciplines. The ladies’s 100m will characteristic St. Lucia’s Olympic champion Julien Alfred and Jamaica’s dash sisters Tia and Tina Clayton.
The Excessive Bounce will characteristic Jamaica’s Romaine Beckford and Raymond Richards.
The ladies’s 400m hurdles will embrace Jamaica’s Andrenette Knight, whereas the ladies’s 400m will see one other Jamaican, Nickisha Pryce, trying to proceed her sturdy season.
The lads’s triple soar may have Jamaica’s Jordan Scott eyeing a podium end. In distinction, the ladies’s 100m hurdles will characteristic the likes of Bahamian world report holder Devynne Charlton and Jamaican Megan Tapper, establishing a fierce battle over the limitations.
