Van Niekerk, Miller-Uibo and Lyles ready to use Boston as Tokyo tune-up
Street meets may be seen as the fun and care-free cousin of top-flight athletics, but dozens of the world’s best athletes will be using Sunday’s adidas Boost Boston Games – a World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting – as a key stepping stone leading up to the Olympic Games.
Wayde van Niekerk has had quite the journey since winning Olympic gold in Rio. The South African sprinter successfully defended his world title in 2017 but then sustained a serious injury in 2018 which put him out of action for the best part of two years.
