World champion Femke Bol became the second woman to break 51 seconds in the 400m hurdles on Sunday at La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, 12 days ahead of the Olympic Games. The first round of the women's 400m hurdles in Paris is on August 4.
The Monaco Diamond League, the penultimate elite track and field meet before the start of the Paris Olympics, was once again the scene of some outstanding performances.After a frenetic meet in Paris last weekend, a host of athletes fine-tuned their preparations for the Summer Games in some style in perfect conditions in Monaco.
Rai Benjamin claimed the spoils in a clash of the hurdling titans at Friday's Monaco Diamond League as Djamel Sedjati and Quincy Hall both set world leads in perfect fine-tuning for the Paris Olympics.Sedjati clocked a personal best of 1:41.46 for victory, a Diamond League record and new world leading time, and immediately set his sights on Kenyan David Rudisha's world record of 1:40.91 set when he won Olympic gold in London in 2012.