The men's 200 metres at this weekend's Prefontaine Classic will feature teenage phenom Erriyon Knighton and world silver medallist Kenny Bednarek, along with Canadian star Andre De Grasse.
In most other track meets you'd stage it last, and let the whole program build up to that last showcase of speed and depth. But this weekend, at the meet that will double as the Diamond League Final, the men will run second-last.
In boxing you would call them the "chief support." No, the men's 200 isn't miscast as the Pre Classic's co-main event. And no, as talented as that field will be — even without Noah Lyles, who will stick to the 100 this weekend — the men don't figure to steal the show from the headliners.
Make that headliner, singular. Not that Shericka Jackson, the two-time champion in the women's 200 metres, and the world's top performer over that distance this season, is running by herself.