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We get you ready for a busy weekend with compelling races all over the globe. Farah needs to hit the 27:28 Olympic standard in the 10,000 at the European 10,000m Cup in Birmingham, while McLaughlin & Simpson return to action at the Music City Track Carnival in Nashville (Sunday, 5-7 p.m. ET, ESPN2). Plus Sifan Hassan headlines a stacked Hengelo meet. *MB: Weekend preview: Jenny Simpson, Sydney M and Mo Farah return, might Sifan Hassan go for the 10k WR?

Jamaica’s two-time Olympic champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce underlined her credentials for the 100m crown in Tokyo with an impressive win at the second Wanda Diamond League meeting of the season in Doha today.The 34-year-old, who won gold ahead of Britain’s Dina Asher-Smith at the same venue at the 2019 World Championships, came home in 10.84 seconds.The time makes her the third fastest woman in the world this year.

Spectators were not present due to strict COVID-19 protocols but athletes still produced thrilling performances, with Jamaica’s Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Kenya’s Timothy Cheruiyot, and America’s Katie Nageotte claiming memorable victories.

Twenty-one-year-old Kenyan Beatrice Chebet produced an outstanding performance at the second Wanda Diamond League meeting of the season in Doha as she defeated a field of world class talents to win the women’s 3,000 metres in the fastest time of the year.

Keely Hodgkinson is a special talent but might be cautious over trying to make the Tokyo Olympics British Athletics head coach Christian Malcolm was full of praise for teenager after dominant showing at the European Indoor Championships 9 March 2021 • 7:00am It has taken Keely Hodgkinson little more than five weeks to catapult herself from promising junior to international recognition. Fresh from becoming the first British woman to break a world under-20 record since Zola Budd 36 years ago, Hodgkinson on Sunday became Britain’s youngest European indoor champion for more than 50 years with...