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NEW YORK CITY – Several English-speaking Caribbean athletes are expected to add flavor with a full program of sprints set to wet the appetite at the second World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meet in the United States this season on Saturday.
The men’s and women’s 100, 200, and 400 meters, as well as the sprint hurdles will ensure that the shorter events will be the focus of the USATF New York City Grand Prix at the Ichan Stadium on Randall’s Island.
Rising Surinamese talent Issam Asinga and Eric Harrison of Trinidad & Tobago will be hoping to upset American Noah Lyles in the men’s 200, which will hold pride of place as the final event on the schedule.
Lyles won this race in a stunning 19.61 seconds last year, and the two-time world champion heads to this meet off the back of a 100 victory in Paris and a world-leading 19.67 over 200 in Kingston earlier this month.
Ackeem Blake of Jamaica will come face-to-face with American Christian Coleman in a men’s 100 dash that is expected to hotly contested and will also include Jamaican Kadrian Goldson.
Coleman got the better of Blake by only three hundredths-of-a-second at this meet last year, but Blake turned the tables on the 2019 world champion at the USATF Los Angeles Grand Prix in May, winning in a personal best of 9.89.
