RIO IN A WEEKEND
OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC CHAMPIONS GALORE DESCEND ON THE OLYMPIC STADIUM THIS WEEKEND
MÜLLER ANNIVERSARY GAMES, LONDON, JULY 22-23
USAIN BOLT promises to get the 2016 Anniversary Games off to a flying start on Friday night at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.

Usain Bolt: gearing up for the 200 metres in London
MARK SHEARMAN
The 100m and 200m world record-holder races over 200m in the first of two days that organisers are calling ‘Rio in a weekend’.
Bolt is followed on Saturday by the appearance of Mo Farah, as the Briton tests his speed and stamina over 5000m.
Jessica Ennis-Hill, Britain’s reigning Olympic heptathlon champion, competes in the sprint hurdles on Friday and long jump on Saturday.
Britain’s reigning Paralympic gold medallists are also in action on Saturday morning during a section of the programme devoted to the IPC Grand Prix Final.

Renaud Lavillenie: pole vaulter plans to fly
But the star names do not stop there. Every event is packed with quality, featuring lots of recent European and US champions and current world and Olympic champions, together with many of the British athletes who are going to the Olympics.
FRIDAY JULY 22
18.24 – Club:Connect relays
19.05 – M pole vault
World record-holder Renaud Lavillenie of France vaults against world champion Shawn Barber of Canada. European champion Robert Sobera of Poland, GB’s Luke Cutts and Germany’s Raphael Holzdeppe.
19.30 – W 4x100m
Two teams from Britain race against quartets from Canada, Jamaica, France, Holland, Poland, Switzerland and Brazil.