Fresh off his 100m suc­cess in Hol­land over the week­end, on-form T&T sprint­er Richard Thomp­son is ex­pect­ed to repli­cate his per­for­mance to­day at the Exxon­Mo­bil Bislett Games, in Oslo, Nor­way, to­day.Us­ain Bolit, the record hold­er of the 100m and 200m events at the now-IAAF Di­a­mond League event will not line up, giv­ing Thomp­son the sta­tus as favourite to win to­day's event.On Sun­day, Thomp­son, T&T's 2008 Olympic medal­ist fin­ished in a blis­ter­ing sea­son-best 9.95 sec­onds, just one tenth of a sec­ond off his per­son­al best and the third fastest time of the year, to cap­ture gold at the FBK Games, in Hen­ge­lo.

That came a week af­ter he clocked 9.74 sec­onds in a wind-as­sist­ed fin­ish to win the 100m event at the NTC/Pure Ath­let­ics Last Chance Meet. The time, how­ev­er, did not stand as the wind gauge mal­func­tioned, but it would have been the world lead­ing time.He lines up in lane five against France's Jim­my Vi­caut, who shares the same sea­son best time, for­mer world cham­pi­on Kim Collins of St Kitts, South Africa's Si­mon Ma­g­a­k­we, Nor­weigan Jay­suma Saidy Ndure and Britons Kilty Richard, Daniel Tal­bot and Adam Gemili.In an­oth­er high­ly-an­tic­i­pat­ed race, US Allyson Fe­lix will go head-to-head with Murielle Ahoure of the Ivory Coast in the women's 200m. Fe­lix, a three-time world cham­pi­on will be seek­ing to reestab­lish her­self as the dom­i­nant force over the 200m af­ter an in­jury-plagued 2013.