The start lists are ready for the Oslo Bislett Games

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The express trains

When you have a heat consisting of the reigning Olympic champion, the 2021 world champion, four of the twenty fastest in the world ever and a field where everyone has a personal best under 10.00, you just must fasten your seat belts. This builds up to be a fantastic duel, primarily between Lamont Marcell Jacobs from Italy and Fred Kerley from the USA. But Akine Simbine from South Africa must be considered a joker.

Can Iuel take new steps

On the first of September last year, Amalie Iuel gave birth to her son Storm. On 20 April, she shocked by winning her comeback at 400m hurdles in Nairobi in a time of 54.89 - four hundredths behind the Olympic qualification standard and her fifth best race. She then followed up by contributing to the Norwegian 4x400 meter relay team that qualified for this summer's Olympics in Paris during the WA Relays in the Bahamas. With six of the seven best in the world ranking at the start she will get as much help as possible at Bislett to make the qualification standard.

One year after the breakthrough he is chasing the European record

Super talent Håvard Bentdal Ingvaldsen (21) became one of the 2023 season's big profiles in Norwegian athletics. The breakthrough came during the Oslo Bislett Games, was followed up throughout the season and rounded off with a sixth place in the WCh. He improved the Norwegian record to 44.39 and is number six in Europe of all time. Now one of the best and smoothest 400 fields we have had awaits at Bislett, with numbers two, three, four and five in the world ranking - including the British Matthew Hudson Smith, who during the semi-finals of the World Cup set a European record with 44.26.

Do we get the first ever sub 12:30 race?

The men's 5,000 meter start list is the best 5,000-list we have ever seen at Bislett. And maybe in the world. If you sort by best times, the world record holder, number five all-time, the two who share sixth place as well as numbers eight and nine in history will be there. If you use ranking as a basis, the top four are present. And this will be Uganda against Ethiopia. Prepare yourself, and maybe we'll get the first ever sub 12:30 race in the history. To make it happen you will need an average of 60 seconds per round.

Will we get another 18 meter jump?

Three of the top four in the world rankings, in the form of Zango, Hernandez and Triki, as well as the legend Christian Taylor, with six global outdoor titles, are on the start-list. Taylor is also number two in the world all-time, while Zango is number six of the seven who have ever jumped over 18 meters under legal conditions. Bislett Stadium has once before experienced a jump over 18 meters, when Jonathan Edwards set the track record of 18.01 in 1998. Will we get to experience it again in 2024?

World class in all events

Today we present the starting lists for three new events for this year's Oslo Bislett Games, and both the men's 400 meters hurdles, the women's 400 meters and the women's discus competition are pure world-class. It has been known for a long time that Karsten Warholm would run the 400 meter hurdles in the Wanda Diamond League meet at Bislett. Now it is clear that he will face three of his hardest competitors in what looks set to be his season debut. With Kyron McMaster, Alison dos Santos and CJ Allen in place, only American Rai Benjamin is missing. He runs in the Diamond League meet in Eugene five days before Oslo and did not want to run two such close races with such a big time difference in an Olympic season.

The Steel man and the entire world elite

Karsten about the season debut at Bislett and the Mondo and Jakob challenges