THE PROS CLOSED THE MONTH IN PARIS

The Diamond League landed at Stade Charléty in Paris on Sunday for its eighth stop of the season, and a few of the names at the top of the results sheet have stories that started long before anyone outside their hometowns was paying attention.

Trayvon Bromell handed Noah Lyles his first defeat of the year, running 9.91 to Lyles's 9.92 in the men's 100m, with Marcell Jacobs taking third in a season-best 9.96. Bromell grew up in St. Petersburg, Florida and became the first prep athlete in U.S. history to break 10 seconds in the 100m while still in high school, a mark Gibbs High School still displays in its trophy case today. 

Grant Fisher finally earned his first Diamond League win, kicking past Jacob Krop and Andreas Almgren to take the men's 5000m in 12:54.80. Fisher grew up splitting his time between soccer and running in Grand Blanc, Michigan, and once skipped a state cross country meet to play in his soccer team's state final. By his senior year he'd committed fully to the track, breaking his state's all-time 1600m record by more than seven seconds and becoming the seventh American high schooler ever to run a mile under four minutes. 

Audrey Werro won the women's 800m in 1:53.80, the third-fastest time in history and a new Diamond League record, becoming the first woman ever to break 1:54 more than once. She's chasing Jarmila Kratochvilova's 43-year-old world record of 1:53.28 and now sits within half a second of it. Werro is 22 and has trained with the same small club in western Switzerland since she joined at age nine, staying loyal to it even as her results moved from junior podiums to the top of the world rankings. Behind her, Femke Bol, the two-time world 400m hurdles champion making just her fourth career start at the distance, ran a personal best 1:55.60 for second, with France's Anaïs Bourgoin taking third in a national record 1:55.65. Five women broke 1:57 in the same race, a depth the event has never seen.

Busang Collen Kebinatshipi of Botswana won the men's 400m in a Diamond League record 43.54, and Marileidy Paulino won the women's 400m in a world-leading 48.48 about twenty minutes later. Marco Arop won the men's 800m by nearly two seconds in a world-leading 1:41.84. Cameron Myers of Australia, eleven days past his 20th birthday, broke the Oceanian record in the men's 1500m at 3:28.00.

Mondo Duplantis won the pole vault at a meeting-record 6.13m in his first competition since getting married the week before, then asked for the bar to go to 6.32m, a centimeter above his own world record, but missed. 

He started vaulting at age three in a backyard pit his father built in Louisiana, and by the time he graduated high school he owned the national record at 19-1.5, a mark that still stands today. It was his answer to a surprise loss to Kurtis Marschall in Stockholm three weeks earlier.

The season keeps moving, for everyone.