An injury to Olympic 400m champion LaShawn Merritt was the big talking point of the Diamond League meeting in Monaco last night.

AFTER suffering a viral tummy bug and spending much of the week in isolation from the other members of the Irish team, David Campbell, last night ran the second fastest time of his career at the world championships in Osaka.

Tyson Gay became the third man in history to complete a World Championship sprint double after winning the 200 metres in Osaka on Thursday night.

ASAFA POWELL, Jeremy Wariner and Sanya Richards made it six Golden League wins out of six in Berlin yesterday to earn a cash bonus of $250,000 each.