On the east side, you'll find the Indiana State Museum, the Eiteljorg Museum and the Military Park. On the west side of the river sits the Indianapolis Zoo, which can be accessed by the White River Pedestrian Bridge.

The White River bisects the park from north-to-south.

Her best time - 21.41 - is seven hundredths shy of Florence Griffith-Joyner’s world record from 1988.Anchoring the west side of Indianapolis, the White River State Park offers 250 acres of green space dotted with memorials and museums as the Central Canal and the White River offer waterways in the park. In the last 15 months, she posted four of the six fastest times in history, two of them in the last three weeks. She’ll follow Saturday’s 100m with her primary event, the 200m, to close the meet. Jackson is scheduled to race both days in Eugene. Mu, who last year at Hayward Field became the youngest woman to pair Olympic gold with a world title in an individual event, can win her first Diamond League season title. Yet she’s on the start list, signaling a return from her much-anticipated vacation to take on rivals Mary Moraa of Kenya and Keely Hodgkinson of Great Britain. Perhaps competing in his home state, against the second-through-fifth-placers from worlds, will spur him to more history.Īthing Mu was expected to be one of the world championships medalists to end her season early and skip this meet. The goal distance on his bathroom mirror has been 23.77. Crouser’s world record - set in May - is 23.56 meters. Last we saw Ryan Crouser, he recorded the second-farthest shot put in history on the first day of the world championships - with two blood clots in his left leg. The field also includes the third-fastest woman this year - Marie-Josée Ta Lou of Cote d’Ivoire - and two-time Olympic 100m champion Elaine Thompson-Herah. She puts that record to the test against world silver medalist Shericka Jackson of Jamaica, who shares the world’s best time of 2023 with Richardson (10.65). Richardson has one 100m defeat in nine meets this year. The men’s 100m is a crowded event going into the Olympic year, but somebody can distinguish himself by beating 9.83 in Eugene. 2, to match Lyles’ world championship-winning time. Plus, one of three men to share the world’s fastest time this year - American Christian Coleman, who ran 9.83 in Xiamen, China, on Sept. Lyles’ competition includes the runner-up at worlds - 20-year-old Letsile Tebogo of Botswana. Here is the Diamond League Final start list. woman to win a Diamond League 100m season title since Carmelita Jeter in 2011.

Richardson, the first American woman to win a global 100m title since the late Tori Bowie in 2017, can become the first U.S. “It doesn’t matter if you win or lose now because you already won world championships.”Įpisode two of Lyles’ docuseries - “Untitled: The Noah Lyles Project” - including behind-the-scenes footage from worlds, premieres Friday on Peacock and the NBC Sports YouTube channel. “We’ve got to treat this like our victory parade. “I guess I didn’t realize how much people just want to see you after the moment happens,” Lyles said. It’s common for athletes to make the Olympics or worlds their last meet of an exhausting season. His mom told him that a girl cried out that day at Hayward Field for Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, who was not at the meet after taking 400m hurdles gold in Tokyo in world record time.

Lyles reflected on the 2021 Pre Classic, which was held after the Olympics.

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