Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone: Eyes on Paris 2024
McLaughlin-Levrone let her speed do the talking in New York with the 21 June start at Trials in Eugene, Oregon: “I’m just getting ready for the Trials… getting ready for the Games,” she said.
She sat on the track for a good 10 minutes at Icahn Stadium in NYC after her win, catching her breath and doing a light amount of stretching. She’s still cautious of the knee injury that interrupted her 2023 season, forcing her out of the World Championships.
The team is attacking from a technical perspective. Facing a headwind on Sunday, she was forced to dig deep in her training to finish strong.
“I wanted to get out there and get a race under me,” she said on NBC of the 400m. “It’s working on the back-end work. Working on coming home. I’m going to need it for those hurdles.”
After her 52.70 world lead in the 400m hurldes on 31 May, Femke Bol, the Olympic bronze medallist from Tokyo 2020 in 2021, went 53.07 two days later at the Diamond League stop in Stockholm.
“I’m going to go back home and continue to plan some stuff,” McLaughlin-Levrone said in New York.
A mere 0.05 off a national record, McLaughlin-Levrone shrugged it off in a way.
“I don’t think I would count that as ‘crazy,'” she said in response to one reporter.
A minute later, Sydney was thanking reporters and walking away… clearly determined to get to the next step in her path towards another Olympic podium.