Overview

• Marcell Jacobs pulled out of the Diamond League meetings in Lausanne on August 20 and Brussels on August 22 after sustaining a mild muscle lesion during training.
• FIDAL invited the Olympic champion to Rome’s Istituto di Medicina e Scienza dello Sport for diagnostic examinations of his injury.
• Decisions about Jacobs’ participation at the World Championships in Tokyo from September 13 to 21 will be made once his fitness is evaluated.
• High jumper Giammarco Tamberi welcomed his daughter Camilla in Ancona and may revise his entry for the Chorzów Diamond League stop to remain with his family.
• U.S. sprinter Fred Kerley was provisionally suspended by the AIU for alleged failures to respond to three consecutive doping tests, adding uncertainty to the sprint field.