The pair will even have British 100m champion Louie Hinchliffe and compatriot Jeremiah Azu, Jamaicans Yohan Blake and Ackeem Blake, and South African Akani Simbine for firm in an enchanting pre-Video games showdown.
Nevertheless, Hughes shall be one among solely two athletes on the beginning line but to run beneath 10 seconds this yr – which has been disrupted by harm, as he sustained a grade one hamstring tear in the beginning of June.
This season began promisingly when he clocked 19.96 seconds to safe a 200m victory over former world 100m champion Fred Kerley in Jamaica in Could.
However he was seen limping away from the monitor following a ten.09sec efficiency in Kingston, the place he’s primarily based and trains beneath Glen Mills, the previous coach of eight-time Olympic champion Usain Bolt and two-time 100m runner-up Yohan Blake.
Denied the prospect to compete on the European Championships and defend his British titles, Hughes says he not solely recovered rapidly from the setback however returned an improved athlete after a meticulous effort to strengthen his complete physique.
“By the tip of my first week again in coaching, we have been already sprinting and my coach seen one thing had modified. My method regarded higher, I regarded stronger,” Hughes says.
“Coach mentioned: ‘I don’t suppose the harm did an excessive amount of – it truly looks as if you bought higher.'”
Hughes, who additionally took down Linford Christie’s 30-year British 100m mark in 9.83secs final yr, is counting down the times till he will get the chance for the redemption he has needed since that fateful evening in Tokyo three years in the past.
When Hughes suffered calf cramp as he set himself in his beginning block moments earlier than the final Olympic 100m last, he knew immediately that it was over.
Accepting the pink card proven to him for his false begin with a nod of resignation, his disqualification official, the Anguilla-born Briton was escorted away from the monitor, his goals in tatters.
In Paris, Hughes hopes to place the file straight.
“I’d like to rewrite the historical past books after what occurred in Tokyo,” says Hughes, who would watch Italy’s Lamont Marcell Jacobs declare a shock gold.
“I consider that [I would have won that final]. I felt it. I felt I used to be prepared. Clearly, when that occurred, every part stopped.
“Lately I learn a saying: ‘You may need been delayed, however you’re not denied.’ I consider that.
“When it is my time, it will likely be my time.”
Watch protection of the London Diamond League on BBC One, BBC iPlayer and the BBC Sport web site and app from 13:15 BST on Saturday, 20 July.
