Rome hosts penultimate Diamond League event - live on BBC

The Diamond League season nears its conclusion in Rome on Friday - the first of two events before September's final.

Zurich, on 5 September, will offer athletes their last opportunity to earn points and qualify for the winner-takes-all Diamond League final in Brussels from 13-14 September.

In addition to winning the Diamond Trophy, each of the 32 champions crowned across the 16 disciplines in the Belgian capital will receive £24,000 in prize money.

You can watch the action from Rome on BBC Two from 20:00 to 21:00 BST and BBC Three from 21:00 to 22:00 on Friday, as well as on the BBC Sport website and app.

Daryll Neita is among the British stars in action as Rome hosts the 13th meeting in the 2024 series, which has taken place across four continents since opening in Xiamen, China in April.

Jakob Ingebrigtsen obliterated the 28-year-old 3,000m world record by more than three seconds and Armand Duplantis broke his own pole vault world record at the Silesia Diamond League last week.

As athletes aim to finish the Olympic year strong, the Italian capital is set to host high-quality competition - not least in the men's 100m, the final event of the evening.

Paris 2024 100m silver medallist Kishane Thompson and bronze medallist Fred Kerley come up against 200m champion Letsile Tebogo over the shorter distance, in a race which also features Italy's Tokyo champion Lamont Marcell Jacobs and Great Britain's Jeremiah Azu.

Neita and Amy Hunt line up in the women's 200m against Olympic bronze medallist Brittany Brown, while Charlie Dobson goes in the men's 400m.

Olympic champion Faith Kipyegon and runner-up Jessica Hull headline a women's 1500m featuring GB's Revee Walcott-Nolan, while Lina Nielsen contests the women's 400m hurdles against Olympic silver medallist Anna Cockrell.

Aimee Pratt races in a women's 3,000m steeplechase which reunites Olympic medallists Winfred Yavi, Peruth Chemutai and Faith Cherotich.

Home favourite Gianmarco Tamberi will hope to star in the men's high jump, while Olympic pole vault champion Nina Kennedy and shot put gold medallist Ryan Crouser are also both in action.

Athletes compete for points at the 14 regular series meetings from May to September.

Those points are awarded on a scale from eight for first place to one for eighth place.

After the 14th meeting in Zurich, the top six ranked athletes in the field events, the top eight in track events from 100m-800m, and the top 10 in distances from 1500m upwards qualify for the final.

In each discipline, one athlete may also qualify by a national or global wildcard.

The two-day final in Brussels is a winner-takes-all competition to be crowned Diamond League champion.

You can view the current standings in each event on the Diamond League website here, external.