Watch Canada's Alysha Newman, Aaron Brown compete at Doha Diamond League

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· Posted: May 14, 2025 4:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 8 minutes ago

Click connected the video subordinate supra to ticker unrecorded enactment from the Diamond League way and tract conscionable successful Doha, Qatar.

Coverage begins connected Friday astatine 12 p.m. ET.

Four Canadian way and tract medallists from the Paris Olympic Games volition beryllium successful competition on CBC Sports this weekend.

That begins with the Diamond League halt successful Doha, Qatar, connected Friday (12 p.m ET, CBC Sports.ca, CBC Gem), which features a star-studded lineup in the women's rod vault.

That includes Olympic bronze medallist Alysha Newman, who successfully improved upon her ain nationalist grounds with a people of 4.85-metres to onshore connected the podium successful Paris.

Newman sat down with CBC Sports earlier this twelvemonth to speech astir beingness aft her medal win.

WATCH | Alysha Newman opens up about life lessons: 

The Delaware, Ont., native competed successful lone 1 indoor lawsuit successful 2025, finishing 2nd (4.50m) at the World Athletics Indoor Tour conscionable successful Ostrava, Czech Republic, successful February.

Newman volition vie successful her archetypal Diamond League conscionable of the play against immoderate acquainted contention – Olympic metallic medallist Katie Moon of the U.S.

Watch each the enactment from Diamond League successful Doha opening connected Friday at 12 p.m. ET, and the Continental Tour halt successful Tokyo Saturday astatine 11:50 p.m. ET connected CBCSports.ca and CBC Gem. Click present for the afloat broadcast schedule.

The full podium from Paris 2024 was expected to beryllium successful enactment successful Doha, but gold medallist Nina Kennedy volition beryllium forced to miss the commencement of the play portion the Australian recovers from hamstring surgery.

The commencement database for Friday's lawsuit besides includes American Sandi Morris, New Zealand's Eliza McCartney, Slovenia's Tina Šutej, and Great Britain's Molly Caudery.

Brown faces pugnacious trial successful men's 200m

The men's 200-metre lawsuit volition besides beryllium contested successful Doha, with Toronto's Aaron Brown lining up against the existent satellite No. 1-ranked athlete in the distance.

Botswana's Letsile Tobogo has a season-best clip of 20.23 already nether his loop from the Botswana Golden Grand Prix successful mid April.

This volition beryllium Brown's archetypal 200 of the season, but the 32-year-old sprinter has a idiosyncratic champion of 19.95. He's also coming off a bronze-medal triumph arsenic portion of Canada's 4x100m squad at World Athletics Relays successful Guangzhou, China, last weekend.

The squad besides clinched a spot astatine this September's satellite championships successful Tokyo.

WATCH | Brown helps Canada to relay bronze successful Guangzhou:

The 200 successful Doha volition besides diagnostic Liberia's Joseph Fahnbulleh, and Americans Courtney Lindsey and Kyree King.

De Grasse, Blake moving successful Tokyo

Two of Brown's teammates volition besides beryllium successful enactment this play astatine the Seiko Golden Grand Prix successful Tokyo (Saturday astatine 11:50 p.m. ET, CBC Gem, CBCSports.ca).

Andre De Grasse and Jerome Blake volition some compete at the Continental Tour stop, with De Grasse successful the 200m, and Blake successful the 100m.

De Grasse recorded a clip of 20.23 successful the 200 astatine the Grand Slam Track lawsuit successful Miami portion Blake ran to a wind-aided 10.00 successful the 100m astatine the Florida Relays successful aboriginal April.

Another sanction to ticker successful the men's 100m is American standout Christian Coleman, who ran to a 10.06 astatine a conscionable successful Gainesville, Fla., in April, but owns a personal champion of 9.76.

For much accusation connected athletics events streaming unrecorded connected CBC Sports this season, click present to spot the afloat broadcast schedule.