IAAF Diamond League Paris Live

Watch IAAF Diamond League Paris Live Athletics Stream Online on Friday 16^th July 2010 at 17:00 - 20:00 GMT which is held at Paris, France. The 2010 IAAF Diamond League is the first edition of the Diamond League, an annual series of fourteen one-day track and field meetings. In to each one of the 32 events at that place will be an “IAAF Diamond Race” with points available throughout the season. The athlete with the most points at the end of the series will be awarded a 4 carat diamond worth approximately $US 80,000. The IAAF Diamond League will play a key role in supporting the IAAF World Athletics Series of championships, as well as athletics at the Olympic Games, by building up interest in athletics in the period leading up to and immediately afterwards the main event.

There will be no shortage of tempting head to heads when the Samsung Diamond League lands in the French capital on Friday for the Meeting Areva, but the one most likely to invoke images of last night’s spectacular Bastille Day fireworks will come in the 100m where Usain Bolt and Asafa Powell square off for the 1st time this season. On the comeback from an Achilles injury, the world’s fastest man arrives in Paris on the heels of a notable 9.82 victory in Lausanne where he equalled Powell’s 2010 world lead. It was Bolt’s 1st race in six weeks and his first 100m outing in nearly two months. All things considered, a solid rust buster for the man who has redefined the limits of human speed.

With an unbeaten record under his belt this summer World Outdoor bronze medallist Renaud Lavillenie has no problem with carrying the weight of being the World's top pole vaulter as he returns to competition at the Meeting Areva Samsung Diamond League on Friday. In the wake of his Kenyan rival David Rudisha running 800m in 1:41.51 in the Belgian town of Heusden last Saturday, to become the second fastest man ever at the event, Kaki now wants to follow in his footsteps over two laps of the track and run under the elite benchmark of 1:42. Get your membership now to watch this championship in high quality video right from your computer via your internet connection. You'll watch all the action as it happens. Click the banners on this page now and enjoy this most exciting game through livesportsevent.com.