PHOTO CREDIT: KATHERINE LUCAS
The professional season hit one of its peaks this week. Monaco hosted the Diamond League on Friday, and what happened at the Louis II Stadium was the kind of night that gets its own section in the history books. Emmanuel Wanyonyi broke a world record. Julien Alfred moved to third on the all-time list. Nina Kennedy jumped higher than any woman on the planet has in five years. Masai Russell keeps running times that have no business existing. For context on each of them, it helps to know where they started, because they too started somewhere.
