Dina Asher-Smith looking to end disastrous 2021 season on a high at  Diamond League finale

While Elaine Thompson-Herah pursues historical past in Zurich on Thursday night, Dina Asher-Smith will merely try to make a little peace with a season that went devastatingly off observe.

It is one thing of a shock to each ladies that their respective campaigns will shut on the Diamond League finals on such differing notes, with one taking all of the marbles regardless of damage and one other falling to a hamstring downside at exactly the improper time.

For Asher-Smith, the one hope from her journey to Switzerland is she will be able to end this painful season strongly and thereby discover some semblance of type and momentum forward of 2022, throughout which she’s going to defend her 200m world title.

Dina Asher-Smith is in search of some type and a few momentum to end her 2021 observe season

That is an awfully great distance in need of the probabilities nonetheless out there to Thompson-Herah on the similar meet, the place the 100m and 200m Olympic champion will take a swing at a world document as soon as thought of insurmountable.

It has been 31 years for the reason that late Florence Griffiths Joyner clocked 10.49sec for the 100m, a mark controversial each on account of a probably dodgy wind gauge and different questions concerning the athlete herself. 

Thompson-Herah’s previous 4 runs of 10.61sec, 10.54sec, 10.64sec and 10.72sec would all point out she is in form to comply with her Tokyo successes with a large flourish. 

The British sprinter has seen her season go off observe as she heads to the Diamond League finale

With a heat evening forecast and a freshly-laid observe, situations might be shut to good for the Jamaican.

‘After the season I can say hooray,’ stated Thompson-Herah. ‘Being the quickest girl alive hasn’t sunk in but however I’ve been stunned (by the season).’ 

Asher-Smith, who arrived out of situation in Japan after a hamstring damage earlier than leaving with a relay bronze medal, will try to maintain tempo with the Thompson-Herah bullet within the 100m earlier than a second race of the night within the 200m. 

A ten.83sec and 21.88sec runner at her greatest, Asher-Smith has not gone beneath 11sec nor 22sec since sustaining the problem on the British trials.

Tokyo medallists Holly Bradshaw and Keely Hodgkinson may also be competing on the Diamond League meet. 

Jamaica’s Elaine Thompson-Herah (proper), certainly one of her rivals, is focusing on the 100m world document