We are in the heat of the Championship season for the 2026 outdoor track season. This past weekend, we had two high school championship meets, two diamond league meets, and two continental tour meets.

Cooper Lutkenhaus may not be old enough to vote in the United States, but the 17-year-old has already represented Team USA on the world stage twice. On Sunday, he will take another significant step in his young career when he makes his Wanda Diamond League debut in the men's 800m at the Stockholm Diamond League.

Fifteen hundred miles separate Rome from Stockholm. The Golden Gala ran on June 4, Bauhaus-galan goes tomorrow. The European season does not take a breath.Mondo Duplantis will vault in the city where he set the outdoor world record last summer. Keely Hodgkinson returns to the 800m three days after going one lap in Rome, in a personal best of 51.14 seconds. Melissa Jefferson-Wooden steps into the 100m for the first time this season after clocking 22.17 over 200m a few days ago. Cooper Lutkenhaus, the 17-year-old who became the youngest world indoor champion in the history of the sport a few months ago, makes his Diamond League Debut.