What to watch this weekend in international sports

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Here are some things for Canadian fans to keep an eye on:

Most of Canada's top track and field stars, including some Olympic and world champions, are in action this weekend across three different global meets.

The Grand Slam Track event in Philadelphia features Olympic 4x100m gold medallists Andre De Grasse and Aaron Brown competing against each other in the men's short sprints group, while 800 world champion and Olympic silver medallist Marco Arop tries to improve on his back-to-back second-place finishes in the men's short distance division.

For those who need a refresher on how Grand Slam Track works, athletes race against their peers in two different distances over the course of a weekend and earn points based on where they finish. Whoever ends up with the most points in each eight-person group wins the top prize of $100,000 US. The first two Grand Slam meets, in Jamaica and Miami, took place over three days, but the Philly meet was condensed to two to make it more fan friendly. 

In the men's short sprints, De Grasse and Brown will try to take down American Kenny Bednarek, who's undefeated in four Grand Slam races this season. Brown is making his Slam debut, while De Grasse finished eighth in the 100m and fourth in the 200m in Miami. In Philly, they'll race the 200 on Saturday at 5:07 p.m. ET and the 100 on Sunday at 5:22 p.m. ET.

Arop finished second in his group in Jamaica and Miami, winning the 800m at both meets but failing to crack the top five in the 1,500m — a distance he'd raced just twice in his career before this season. Arop's competition this weekend