There were some entertaining races in Kingston, with Grant Fisher winning an extremely tactical 5,000 and Hiltz (1:58.23) holding off Diribe Welteji in the 800. But the big stadium was largely empty on Friday night.

The inaugural women's-only meet is on Thursday in New York and features four Olympic champions from Paris (Gabby Thomas, Faith Kipyegon, Masai Russell,  Marileidy Paulino) in its six events as well walk-out songs and a performance by rapper Megan Thee Stallion. *MB: Official Athlos NYC Discussion Thread - Can this women's-only track meet gain traction and transform the sport?

The US has been utterly dominant in the 200m as the top 9 women in the world are all Americans and the leader of that group is Gabby Thomas.

Jackson set a championship record of 21.41 (#2 all-time) while Lyles ran 19.52 to complete the 100/200 double.

Nine athletes -- including recent world champions Christian Coleman, Salwa Eid Naser, and Elijah Manangoi -- have been suspended for whereabouts failures in 2020, compared to two in all of 2018 and 2019 combined. What's going on?

Thomas was the 2018 NCAA indoor 200 champ for Harvard, while Stevens was the 2017 US 200 champ and took 5th at the 2017 Worlds. Oloitiptip finished 11th in the 10,000 at the 2019 Worlds. Thomas is appealing and says she's "confident" she'll be "completely cleared" as she says phone data plus the testimony of multiple witnesses will show that the anti-doping officer didn't knock on her door for the third test. *MB: Should we just give up and find a new sport? Gabby Thomas - formerly of Harvard - receives doping ban for missing 3 tests 

Martin Lel's brother is making a name for himself, so is Violah Jepchumbah and Stephanie Bruce. Plus German Fernandez does the 10k, the college track season heats up and more.