Canadian running star Marco Arop up against world-best field at Diamond League Monaco

Canada's Marco Arop will compete against a very familiar field in the men's 800 metres at the Diamond League track and field stop in Monaco.

Seven of the eight athletes that ran in the final of last summer's Paris Olympic Games will line up in Friday's race at the Meeting Herculis EBS. That includes each of the Paris 2024 medallists: Olympic champion Emmanuel Wanyonyi of Kenya, silver medallist Arop, and bronze-medal winner Djamel Sedjati of Algeria.

CBC Gem and CBCSports.ca will carry all the live action beginning at 2 p.m. ET. 

Arop is coming off a successful first season of competition in the new Grand Slam Track league. The 26-year-old Edmontonian won all three 800m races, and was crowned the winner of the short distance competition at the Philadelphia stop on June 1.

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This weekend's men's 800m race is scheduled to start at 2:23 p.m. ET, but is just one of several key events on Friday. Here are a few more events to keep an eye on:

Canada's Sarah Mitton, fresh off a second-place finish at the Prefontaine Classic, will face a pair of reigning champions in Monaco.

The world indoor champ from Brooklyn, N.S., will take on world champ Chase Jackson, of the U.S., as well as Paris Olympic gold medallist Yemisi Ogunleye, of Germany.

Another competitor to watch out for is indoor worlds runner-up Jessica Schilder, of the wetherlands, who is also the reigning European indoor champion.

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Paris Olympic champion Letsile Tebogo of Botswana will have some high-profile competition at Monaco's 200m race.

That's because men's 100m Olympic champion Noah Lyles will make his Diamond League season debut