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when she runs against the Americans in the Oregon Diamond League meeting next weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Olympic 200 metres champion Andre De Grasse was beaten into fourth place in a disappointing men&#8217;s 100m that was deprived of American Trayvon Bromell &#8212; the fastest man in the world last year &#8212; and Britain&#8217;s Zharnel Hughes by false starts.<\/p>\n<p>In the stadium that will host the Commonwealth Games athletics later this year, De Grasse was outclassed by Canadian compatriot Aaron Brown who won in a modest 10.13sec, with 32-year-old Jamaican Yohan Blake second in 10.18.<\/p>\n<p>De Grasse clocked a pedestrian 10.24 but showed better form when he anchored a Canadian quartet to victory in the men&#8217;s 4x100m relay in 38.31.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_314657\" style=\"width: 778px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-314657\" class=\"size-full wp-image-314657\" src=\"https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/sports\/files\/2022\/05\/8e75afbddaf7af7959cf67a22bbd2df1f7a0ded4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/sports\/files\/2022\/05\/8e75afbddaf7af7959cf67a22bbd2df1f7a0ded4.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/sports\/files\/2022\/05\/8e75afbddaf7af7959cf67a22bbd2df1f7a0ded4-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-314657\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andre De Grasse led Canada to victory in the 4x100m relay after a disappointing performance in the 100m \u00a9 <b>AFP \/ Ben Stansall<\/b><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Britain&#8217;s first-choice relay quartet, who were stripped of their Olympic silver medal after Chijindu Ujah failed a doping test, made a bad start to the 2022 season when Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake dropped the baton in the final changeover.<\/p>\n<p>Another home favourite, Laura Muir, showed she is building back strongly from a back injury she suffered in February when the Briton won a hard-fought women&#8217;s 1500m in 4min 02.81sec, holding off Australia&#8217;s Jessica Hull.<\/p>\n<p>Hansle Parchment, who caused an upset to win the Olympic 110m hurdles title last year, set a world-leading 13.09sec to beat another Jamaican, 2016 Olympic champion Omar McLeod.<\/p>\n<p>American Dalia Muhammad, the Olympic champion in 2016 and silver medallist last year, eased to victory in the women&#8217;s 400m hurdles in 54.54sec, ahead of two Ukrainians, Viktoriya Tkachuk and Anna Ryzhkova.<\/p>\n<p>In the men&#8217;s discus, Slovenia&#8217;s Kristjan Ceh moved into the all-time world top 10 with a huge throw of 71.27 metres.<\/p>\n<p>Italian high jumper Gianfranco Tamberi, who famously shared Olympic gold with Mutaz Essa Barshim in Tokyo, had to settle for second in a competition won by Canadian Django Lovett with 2.28m to 2.25m.<\/p>\n<p>Germany&#8217;s Olympic gold medallist Malaika Mihomba leaped a world-leading 7.09m to dominate the women&#8217;s long jump.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BIRMINGHAM,\u00a0 United Kingdom, May 21 &#8211; 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