Road to the Olympic Games: Diamond League from Paris

Watch Road to the Olympic Games, our weekly program spotlighting the best high-performance athletes from Canada and around the world.

On this week's show, catch all the action from the Diamond League series track and field stop in Paris featuring several of Canada's top athletes.

After failing to qualify for the men's 800-metre final in Tokyo, Edmonton's Marco Arop has been on a tear —winning back-to-back Diamond League events. The 22-year-earned his first Diamond League victory at last week's Prefontaine Classic before once again topping the podium in Lausanne. 

Aaron Brown will also be competing in the men's 200, while fellow Torontonian Gabriela DeBues-Stafford (women's 3,000) will be the lone Canadian woman competing in Paris. 

In other action, Jamaican sprint queen Elaine Thompson-Herah will look to make history in the women's 100 as she continues to chase Florence Griffith Joyner's long-deemed-untouchable 10.49 world record. Thompson-Herah, the Olympic champion, ran the second-fastest 100 of all time in a blistering 10.54 seconds at last week's Prefontaine Classic. 

WATCH | Thompson-Herah posts 2nd-fastest women's 100 metres ever:

Jamaica's Elaine Thompson-Herah posts the all-time 2nd-fastest women's 100m time

3 years ago

Duration 6:05

2016 and 2020 Olympic 100-metre and 200-metre champion Elaine Thompson-Herah ran the second-fastest women's 100m time in history, winning the Diamond League Prefontaine Classic race in Eugene, Ore., in 10.54 seconds. Florence Griffith-Joyner set the record of 10.49 seconds in 1988.