Desgagnés, Fafard, Philibert-Thiboutot set for Olympic tune-up at Diamond League's Meeting de Paris

The "Three Musketeers" of Canadian running will get a feel for racing in Paris this weekend before some of their Olympic competition early next month in the French capital.

Thomas Fafard is scheduled to make his Diamond League season debut Sunday at the Meeting de Paris, joining Charles Philibert-Thiboutot in the men's 3,000 metres at 11:06 a.m. ET, a non-DL points race. Jean-Simon Desgagnés races in the 3,000 steeplechase at 10:23 a.m.

Desgagnés and Philibert-Thiboutot competed at the BAUHAUS-galan Diamond League meet on June 2 in Stockholm.

The trio, coached by Quebec-based Felix-Antoine Lapointe, solidified spots on the Canadian Olympic team at last week's trials at Claude-Robillard sports complex in Montreal.

Philibert-Thiboutot was second to Kieran Lumb in the 1,500 for a second consecutive year. He had achieved the 3:33:50 Olympic qualifying standard by 21-100ths of a second last July 16 in Silesia, Poland.

"A sweet, sweet personal victory after missing Tokyo 2021 by two world ranking spots and running the [Olympic qualifying] standard 3 weeks too late," Philibert-Thiboutot wrote this week in an Instagram post.

The 33-year-old from Quebec City will compete in his second Olympic 1,500 after placing eighth in his semifinal heat at the 2016 Games in Rio.

Live streaming coverage of Sunday's track and field meet begins at 10 a.m. ET and is available at CBCSports.ca, the CBC Sports app and CBC Gem.

Desgagnés, 25, won his second straight Canadian title in 8:34.56, one month after placing eighth in the Stockholm (8:15.95). The native of Saint-Ferreol-les-Neiges, Que., qualified for his first Olympics on world ranking points, having not run the 8:15.00 entry standard.

"Thank you to everyone who pushes me forward every