What’s better than one winner-take-all Diamond League final? That would be two winner-take-all Diamond League finals, especially when those two come on consecutive days this year. The 2018 Brussels Diamond League will wrap up the pro circuit season on Friday, August 31, as it goes back-to-back with the Zurich Diamond League on Thursday, an action-packed conclusion to an outdoor season that has seen plenty of drama despite no global championship on the calendar.

Below we’ve ranked the Brussels races from the most to least intriguing:

1. Women’s 1500m

Field:

Habitam Alemu (ETH)

Rababe Arafi (MAR)

Darıya Barysevich (BLR) - Pace

Winny Chebet (KEN)

Sofia Ennaoui (POL)

Sifan Hassan (NED)

Shelby Houlihan (USA)

Nelly Jepkosgei (KEN)

Laura Muir (GBR)

Jenny Simpson (USA)

Gudaf Tsegay (ETH)

Elise Vanderelst (BEL) - Pace

Laura Weightman (GBR)

Main Attraction: Will Shelby Houlihan’s dream 2018 end with a Diamond League title?

Shelby Houlihan has been on an absolute tear this outdoor season, going undefeated while winning two Diamond League 1,500m races and breaking the 5,000m American record in Heusden. It’s a testament to her dominance that, even among an incredibly deep field that includes three former 1,500m Diamond League champions, Houlihan will enter her first ever DL final as a co-favorite with a former champion like Sifan Hassan.

Houlihan has some Belgian mojo. Her 14:34 5K American record from July 21: 

And why not? Houlihan has beaten all of the other big names—Hassan, Muir, Tsegay, and Simpson—at least once in 2018. Of those, Hassan is likely to pose the stiffest challenge as she ran the third-fastest mile in history, 4:14.71, in London on July 22.

2. Women’s 3,000m steeplechase

Field:

Peruth Chemutai (UGA)

Beatrice Chepkoech (KEN)

Roseline Chepngetich (KEN)

Fancy Cherono (KEN) - Pace

Celliphine Chespol (KEN)

Emma Coburn (USA)

Courtney Frerichs (USA)

Karoline Grovdal (NOR)

Daisy Yepkemei (KEN)

Norah Jeruto (KEN)

Hyvin Kiyeng (KEN)

Aisha Praught (JAM)

Caroline Tuigong (KEN) - Pace

Winfred Yavi (BRN)

Main Attraction(s): Beatrice Chepkoech’s first Diamond League race since her world record, and will an American go sub-9:00?

The last time this crew got together, Beatrice Chepkoech dropped a stunner by taking eight seconds off the previous world record with her 8:44.32 in Monaco. And if that wasn’t enough, Courtney Frerichs simultaneously threw down the greatest performance ever by an American, running 9:00.85 and beating Emma Coburn for the first time in 12 tries. All that calamity has set the stage for a spectacular final in Brussels.

Chepkoech has not lost a steeple race since May and will be favored accordingly on Friday. The next-fastest women in the world this season Frerichs, so anything within 10 seconds of her PR should be good enough to win for the Kenyan. The race within the race will be the rematch between Frerichs and Coburn. The winner just might become the fifth woman ever to break 9:00.

3. Men’s 100m

Field:

Ronnie Baker (USA)

Yohan Blake (JAM)

Christian Coleman (USA)

Reece Prescod (GBR)

Mike Rodgers (USA)

Akani Simbine (RSA)

Chijindu Ujah (GBR)

Isiah Young (USA)

Main Attraction: Who will we remember as the fastest from 2018? 

Even if no one runs faster than Ronnie Baker’s 9.87 on Friday in Brussels, the title of world’s fastest man in 2018 seems to be hanging in the balance ahead of the 100m Diamond League finale. Christian Coleman and Ronnie Baker have each won multiple DL 100m races this season, and it would be hard to argue in favor of the man who loses in the biggest race of the season. So here we go.

Coleman has dealt with injuries this outdoor season, and yet he has finally started to turn the corner as of late. The 60m world record holder beat Baker by milliseconds in Rabat in July, then he ran a 9.94 season-best in Birmingham on August 18 to pick up another win, sans Baker. Baker’s 9.87 clap back four days later in Poland has set the stage for an epic showdown in Belgium.

4. Women’s 100m hurdles

Field:

Tobl Amusan (NGR)

Eline Berings (BEL)

Dawn Harper-Nelson (USA)

Keni Harrison (USA)

Christina Manning (USA)

Brianna McNeal (USA)

Sharika Nelvis (USA)

Nadine Visser (NED)

Danielle Williams (JAM)

Main Attraction: Harrison vs McNeal, Part V

Sally Pearson ended a run of six straight American Diamond League champions in the 100m hurdles last year, but with Keni Harrison and Brianna McNeal set to toe the line in Brussels, a U.S. winner seems inevitable this year. Overall, Americans will occupy five of the nine lanes in this event, including former Diamond League champs Harrison and Dawn Harper-Nelson.

The matchup to watch is Harrison vs McNeal. The two fastest women in the world this season have raced four times in 2018, with Harrison taking three of the races. She’ll be the favorite, but the Olympic champion McNeal has a better history in big races. With $50K on the line in an off year, this is as big as it gets in 2018.

5. Men’s 800m

Field:

Elliot Crestan (BEL) - Pace

Antoine Gakeme (BDI)

Wyclife Kinyamal (KEN)

Jonathan Kitilit (KEN)

Emmanuel Korir (KEN)

Marcin Lewandowski (POL)

Clayton Murphy (USA)

Ferguson Rotich (KEN)

Cornelius Tuwei (KEN)

Jake Wightman (GBR)

Main Attraction: Can Emmanuel Korir become the first man in six years to break 1:42?

Emmanuel Korir’s lone defeat in the 800m this season was to a man—Nijel Amos—who won’t be in Brussels. Otherwise, he’s been totally dominant in 2018, and the big question ahead of Brussels is not if he’ll win, but instead how fast he’ll run on Friday. Without Amos, nobody in the field has run within a second of the Kenyan this season, so the intrigue here lies in whether Korir can crack the elusive 1:42 barrier.

The 23-year-old came closer than anyone has since the famous 2012 Olympic final with his 1:42.05 on July 22, ironically also in London, and he’ll have four 1:43 runners to push him in Brussels.

6. Women’s 200m

Field:

Cynthia Bolingo (BEL)

Shericka Jackson (JAM)

Ivet Lalova-Collio (BUL)

Shaunae Miller-Uibo

Jenna Prandini (USA)

Jamile Samuel (NED)

Dafne Schippers (NED)

Gabrielle Thomas (USA)

Main Attraction: Shaunae Miller-Uibo goes for the repeat

It’s quite the bummer that the women’s 200m and 400m finals are both in Brussels this year, thus preventing Shaunae Miller-Uibo from attempting another Diamond League double title. But the Olympic champ had to choose one, and she went with the final race of the 2018 Diamond League season: the women’s 200m.

Miller-Uibo may be undefeated in 2018, but she’ll have some tough competition in this one. Shericka Jackson ran 22.05 in Paris, and she along with Jenna Prandini (22.16 PR in London) will present the greatest challenge to the champ.

7. Men’s 5,000m

Field:

Bashir Abdi (BEL)

Mo Ahmed (CAN)

Selemon Barega (ETH)

Paul Chelimo (USA)

Muktar Edris (ETH)

Hagos Gebrhiwet (ETH)

Abadi Hadis (ETH)

Tamas Kazi (HUN) - Pace

Yomif Kejelcha (ETH)

Vincent Letting (KEN) - Pace

Stanley Mburu (KEN)

Stewart McSweyn (AUS)

Getanah Molla (ETH)

Cyrus Rutto (KEN)

Ben True (USA)

Richard Yator (KEN)

Main Attraction: Last shot at a sub-13:00 in 2018

You may have heard that no one has cracked 13:00 in 2018. A drought like this hasn’t happened since 1993, and Brussels will likely be the last chance for the world’s best 5K athletes to avoid such unwanted notoriety. Several men in the field are certainly capable of such a performance, but whether they do it with $50K on the line is less than certain. More than likely, this one will lag in the middle kilometers and fall outside the 13:00 range before a crazy-fast finish.

Two guys who have sub-13:00 PRs are Ethiopians Yomif Kejelcha and Hagos Gebrhiwet, the 2015 and 2016 Diamond League champions, respectively. They, along with fellow Ethiopians Selemon Barega and Muktar Edris, make up the only four in the field to crack 13, and the winner seems likely to come from one of that quartet. Smart money is on Kejelcha, who ran a scorching hot 7:28 3K on August 18.

8. Men’s 110m hurdles

Field:

Devon Allen (USA)

Balázs Baji (HUN)

Freddie Crittenden (USA)

Ronald Levy (JAM)

Pascal Martinot-Lagarde (FRA)

Orlando Ortega (ESP)

Hansle Parchment (JAM)

Sergey Shubenkov (ANA)

Main Attraction: World leader Sergey Shubenkov looks to become first repeat 110m hurdles Diamond League champion

Even after surprisingly losing to Pascal Martinot-Lagarde at Euros, 2018 world leader Sergey Shubenkov is the pick for the men’s 110 hurdles in Brussels. The 12.92 PR he ran on July 2 shows that if he’s on his game, which he has been for most of the season, no one can touch him in the event. The next-fastest man this season is Orlando Ortega at 13.08 seconds.

9. Women’s 400m

Field:

Jessica Beard (USA)

Phyllis Francis (USA)

Camille Laus (BEL)

Stephenie Ann McPherson (JAM)

Salwa Eid Naser (BRN)

Courtney Okolo (USA)

Jaide Stepter (USA)

Shakima Wimbley (USA)

Main Attraction: Without Miller-Uibo, this is Salwa Eid Naser’s race to lose

Shaunae Miller-Uibo’s decision to run the 200m instead of the 400m has damaged the quality of this event, which now seems likely to go to 20-year-old Salwa Eid Naser of Bahrain. The 2017 World Championships silver medalist has lost just once in 2018, and that was to Miller-Uibo in Monaco.