Dominant in the 400-meter hurdles, U.S. star continues to show she could win other events, but she won’t try in Paris.
In what amounted to a tune-up, Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone nearly set an American record in an event she doesn't intend to run in the Paris Olympics. NEW YORK — The race did not unfold as Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone had hoped. Once she crossed the finish line at Icahn Stadium, she lay down across the track and stretched her legs. She leaned against a fence and grimaced.
If there is anything that matches the galactic dominance of McLaughlin-Levrone in the universe of American track and field, it may be the expectations she heaps on herself. But erasing the .04 seconds that separate her from Sanya Richards-Ross’s American record will have to wait.At the U.S. Olympic trials, which begin June 21 in Eugene, Ore., McLaughlin-Levrone will run only in the 400-meter hurdles, the event in which she has frequently andsince 2021.
McLaughlin’s time of 22.07 seconds gave her the world lead in the 200 until Ole Miss’s McKenzie Long won the NCAA championship this weekend in 21.83 seconds. “I was seeing everything I was seeing back at world championships,” Lyles said. “I was like, ‘Wow.’ It’s very satisfying to be here so early in the season.”
Lyles probably could backpedal and make the Olympic team at the 200. The 100 meters will require more stress, although one of his main competitors in that event, Fred Kerley, will enter Eugene after turbulence.
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