Overview
- Fresh off a 19.88-second 200m win in Monaco, Lyles steps onto the London track for his first 100m of the season.
- Akani Simbine enters the race unbeaten in six sub-10-second 100m outings this year.
- Track analyst Aeron Brown predicts Simbine to claim victory and forecasts Lyles to finish third.
- Lyles’s bye for the US Trials frees him from qualification pressure to focus on fine-tuning his sprint.
- The London meet is the 11th of 15 Diamond League stops and offers a final preparation for athletes ahead of September’s World Championships in Tokyo.