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Track and field season rolls on post-Olympics

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If you're new-ish to the newsletter, Monday's editions typically feature a catch-up on the most interesting results from the weekend in Olympic sports. But, since many of those sports are enjoying some post-Paris downtime right now, there's a dearth of stuff to recap.

Luckily, track and field has not slowed down. Sure, some Olympic stars are taking it a bit easier these days as they come off their Paris peaks. But many are still going full speed with just a few weeks left to earn money and rack up points to qualify for the prestigious Diamond League Final.

At Sunday's Diamond League meet in Poland, Swedish pole-vault sensation Armand "Mondo" Duplantis cleared 6.26 metres to break (by one centimetre) the world record he set with his spectacular gold-medal performance in Paris. Olympic men's 5,000m champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen of Norway smashed the 28-year-old world record in the 3,000m, just three days after reclaiming his 1,500m supremacy by defeating Olympic Cinderella Cole Hocker of the U.S. at a different Diamond League stop in Switzerland. And Olympic men's 200m champ Letsile Tebogo of Botswana also picked up his second Diamond League win of the week.

Meanwhile, Canadian 800m star Marco Arop earned a satisfying victory over rival Emmanuel Wanyonyi, the Kenyan who clipped Arop by one hundredth of a second for the Olympic gold in Paris before winning their rematch on Thursday in Lausanne. Here's more on Sunday's meet in Poland.

WATCH | Arop tops Wanyonyi in rematch:

Only two stops remain on the Diamond League circuit before the Sept. 13-14 Final in Brussels. That meet is reserved for the top-ranked

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