Karsten Warholm returns for Rabat Diamond League; TV, live stream schedule

With the world track and field championships coming next month, podium favorites are emerging with the Diamond League circuit providing the best prospects. The season continues Sunday with world previews in Rabat, Morocco.

Olympic gold medalists Karsten Warholm and Elaine Thompson-Herah are among the headliners, live on CNBC, NBCSports.com/live, the NBC Sports app and Peacock on Sunday from 2-4 p.m. ET.

For Warholm, who took his own 400m hurdles world record down to 45.94 seconds in Tokyo, it’s his first race September. Jumping right back to the top of the world rankings won’t be easy.

Brazilian Alison Dos Santos, who became the third-fastest man in history with his Olympic bronze, has already run 47.23 and 47.24 this year, two of the three fastest times in history when counting only races run before June 1 in a year.

Thompson-Herah has run frequently this outdoor season, but she’s still looking up at countrywoman and fellow two-time Olympic 100m champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce in the 2022 world rankings.

There are deeper fields in the women’s pole vault and men’s 800m and 3000m steeplechase as many athletes prepare for national championships. That includes the USATF Outdoor Championships in three weeks in Eugene, Oregon, where the top three in most individual events qualify for worlds, also in Eugene.

Here are the Rabat entry lists. Here’s the schedule of events (all times Eastern):

12:50 p.m. — Women’s High Jump 1:16 — Men’s Long Jump 1:45 — Women’s Pole Vault 2:04 — Women’s 400m 2:15 — Men’s 1500m 2:25 — Men’s Discus 2:28 — Women’s 100m 2:37 — Men’s 800m 2:43 — Women’s Triple Jump 2:45 — Women’s 1500m 2:58 — Men’s 200m 3:07 — Women’s 3000m 3:27 — Men’s 400m Hurdles 3:35 — Women’s 800m 3:46 — Men’s 3000m Steeplechase