Thompson clocks 9.85 to light up Eugene Diamond League

With the World Championships looming in Tokyo on September 13-21, Jamaica's Kishane Thompson and American Melissa Jefferson-Wooden continued their stellar sprint campaigns with 100m victories at the Diamond League athletics meeting in Eugene, Oregon on Saturday. Olympic silver medallist Thompson clocked 9.85sec to win the men's 100m, confidently following up on his blistering 9.75sec at the Jamaican national trials that made him the sixth-fastest man all-time at the distance. Thompson easily out-p...