As the penultimate IAAF Diamond League meeting of the season takes place on Thursday evening in Zurich, one of the great duels from the European Athletics Championships could repeat itself on the same track.
The women’s 1500m is once more set to be among the races of the night as European athletes have a chance of winning the Diamond Race in six of the events on show.
Croatia’s Sandra Perkovic has already taken the title in the discus and after her exploits at the European Athletics Championships, where she produced a national record of 71.08m with the best throw in the world since 1992, she might now attack the meeting record of 70.20m.
But it was on the track at the championships that the Netherland’s Sifan Hassan, running outdoors for her country at a major event for the first time, beat Sweden’s Abeba Aregawi in a brilliant 1500m.
Aregawi, the world champion and last year’s Diamond Race winner, could not match Hassan’s speed and the pair now face each other again in a race where, along with Jennifer Simpson, of the USA, who won last week in Stockholm, any three of them could win the title.
Aregawi leads the standings with 12 points from Hassan with 10 and Simpson with nine and it could be quite a finish down the home straight.
Even though it is normally four for a win, two for second and one for third, the points are doubled for the final, with half of the Diamond League events finishing on Thursday and the remainder next week in Brussels.
Hassan is not the only athlete looking to celebrate again at the Letzigrund.
David Storl, of Germany, kept hold of his European crown when he won with 21.41m and now he faces a clash with Americans Reese Hoffa, the 2007 world champion, and Joe Kovacs, for the Diamond.
Hoffa has 15 points from Storl’s nine with Kovacs on eight.
The men’s javelin is wide open with Antti Ruuskanen, fresh from his European glory, still in with a chance of snatching this prize too.
He might have only four points in an event where he is trailing four of his rivals but with the double points, that could change.
He faces the two men he beat to gold at the championships - Vitezslav Vesley, of the Czech Republic, whose title he took, and fellow Finn Tero Pitkamaki.
They both have eight points, sharing the lead with Egypt’s Ihab Abdelrahman with Germany’s Thomas Rohler just behind on seven.
Croatia’s Blanka Vlasic was forced to miss the European Athletics Championships with injury but she can still head towards the end of the season with high jump glory in Zurich as she is one of three women who can take the Diamond Race.
Vlasic is joint top of the rankings with 10 points with Russian Mariya Kuchina with Croatia’s Ana Simic just behind with eight. Spain’s Ruth Beitia, who retained her European crown with a sensational performance earlier this month, has three points and though she is probably out of it, it is not totally impossible for her to take the title if the other three have nights to forget.
Greece’s Katerina Stefanidi, with seven points, and Nikoleta Kyriakopoulou, with six, also have an outside chance of the pole vault crown with Brazil’s Fabiana Murer leading the way with 12.
It is a similar story in the long jump where Serbian Ivana Spanovic, the world bronze medallist, with eight points, and double European champion Eloyse Lesueur, of France, with seven, will have hope as they chase event leader Tianna Bartoletta, of the USA, with 12.