How to watch the Stockholm Diamond League
Sage Watson and Marco Arop will race on Sunday morning
This Sunday, two Canadian runners will take the stage at the Stockholm Diamond League. Sage Watson and Marco Arop are the Canadian headliners and they’ll race world champions, area and national record holders. In the women’s 400m hurdles, Watson will face Olympic medallist and world champion Zuzana Hejnova of the Czech Republic. Watson opened her season on Wednesday with a 56.29.
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The men’s 800m is basically a re-run of the Monaco Diamond League, where Arop ran a new personal best last Friday of 1:44.14 to grab the podium finish. He will once again face world-leading Donavan Brazier and multi-time Diamond League champion Ferguson Rotich. Arop is inching closer and closer to Brandon McBride’s national record of 1:43.20, which he set in 2018.
Arop stunned fans at the 2018 national championships when he took the title over McBride. He went on the make the World Championship final in 2019 and his career has continued to flourish is 2020.
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The schedule
How to watch
CBC is once again streaming all Diamond League events for free this summer. You can find Sunday’s event on their sports player.