Inspiration Games bring top athletes together, virtually

With the Diamond League finals cancelled amid the Covid-19 crisis, organisers of next week’s innovation-driven Inspiration Games see the one-day event as a way to bring top athletes from across the globe together. Eight track and field events will be held with three athletes — one from Europe, one from the United States and one from the Rest of the World — competing against each other from different stadiums. The start of the track events will be signalled from Zurich and the video footage from the different stadiums will be synchronised and broadcast within two minutes of the end of the races which include a 150 metres, a 300 metres hurdles and a 100-yard sprint. American sprinter Allyson Felix, six-times Olympic champion, will be among the leading names participating along with Olympic 400m hurdles champion Dalilah Mohamed and world indoor pole vault champion Sandi Morris.