Germany’s Malaika Mihambo will begin her Olympic gold medal defense on home soil in earnest against a formidable women’s long jump field and American Sam Kendricks will headline an equally strong men’s pole vault line up as the field events figure to take center stage at the ISTAF Dusseldorf, a World Athletics Indoor Tour Silver level meeting, on Sunday.

Meet record attempts, early head-to-head showdowns, star-powered openers and repeat victory attempts are among the big storylines for the World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold meeting in Ostrava on Tuesday.

Andre De Grasse and Mondo Duplantis will be the focal points as the World Athletics Indoor Tour calendar opens with its first ever Gold Level meet in Asia on Saturday at the Astana Indoor Meet for Amin Tuyakov Prizes.

Dina Asher-Smith of Great Britain will square off against Julien Alfred of St. Lucia and three other Olympic medalists in the women's 60m in one of the deepest fields assembled for the 116th Millrose Games on February 11 at the Nike Track & Field Center at The Armory.