Will this be the year she finally breaks the American record? Would be funny if she
1) Misses it by fractions of a second again or 2) breaks it but loses to another American. Some Americans I’d be interested in seeing run it would be Jameesia Ford, Whittaker, Alexis Holmes, Butler, Irby Jackson, and Kaylin Brown.
Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone is running the Pre Classic for the first time in her career. The race is on July 5 and she will run the flat 400.
If you were wondering what it would take for SML to run America's biggest pro meet, we have the answer: cancel basically all the other US meets around this time -- no Grand Slam Track LA, no USATF NYC Grand Prix, no USATF LA Grand Prix. Bobby Kersee doesn't want SML to go two months without racing ahead of USAs and doesn't like having her go to Europe. Hence, Prefontaine.
Glad she's running it. One of America's biggest track stars will only make the Pre Classic better. Though I'm curious who they will get to face her as they have not announced the rest of the field yet. She was supposed to race Marileidy Paulino and Salwa Eid Naser at GST LA. Will they still come to Pre? If so, Pre will have to pay up to get them because the women's 400 is a non-Diamond discipline at Pre this year.
Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone is running the Pre Classic for the first time in her career. The race is on July 5 and she will run the flat 400.
If you were wondering what it would take for SML to run America's biggest pro meet, we have the answer: cancel basically all the other US meets around this time -- no Grand Slam Track LA, no USATF NYC Grand Prix, no USATF LA Grand Prix. Bobby Kersee doesn't want SML to go two months without racing ahead of USAs and doesn't like having her go to Europe. Hence, Prefontaine.
Glad she's running it. One of America's biggest track stars will only make the Pre Classic better. Though I'm curious who they will get to face her as they have not announced the rest of the field yet. She was supposed to race Marileidy Paulino and Salwa Eid Naser at GST LA. Will they still come to Pre? If so, Pre will have to pay up to get them because the women's 400 is a non-Diamond discipline at Pre this year.
6. Aaliyah Butler (I am a big Fan of Hers, She can be really good in my opinion, As a Person she is like an Angel just Wonderful, I am Shocked most on Letsrun like Femke Bol more than her it seems.
7. Gabby Thomas
8. Isabella Whittaker
9. Jameesha Ford Ran under 49 Relay Legs 2 or 3 times this Season
Alternates
Henrietta Hager
Natalie Dumas (High School Record Attempt)
Dejanna Oakley (Big Breakthrough at NCAA's From Jamaica which is a Sprint Factory And They have LOTS Of Fans = Great TV Ratings)
Lieke Klaver
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I'm glad she finally goes to Pre. I always think Pre is an ideal choice for her to run after GST LA cancelled. US soil (no need to travel to Euro) and Hayward is always good for her ro break records or set new PB. Now wish the weather could cooperate so she can finally break the AR stands for almost 20 years.
Still waiting for McLaughlin to compete at a non-U.S. Diamond League meet since being coached by Kersee. Won't venture overseas where USATF can't protect her if she tests positive.
my interpretation is that bobby himself doesnt like to travel. he says weird things like, we race in the us because we are trying to make us teams. an argument that makes less sense since hes coaching world/ all-time greats.
anyway, make your own interpretation. its around the 6:30 mark.
my interpretation is that bobby himself doesnt like to travel. he says weird things like, we race in the us because we are trying to make us teams. an argument that makes less sense since hes coaching world/ all-time greats.
anyway, make your own interpretation. its around the 6:30 mark.
While it's probably true that Bobby Kersee doesn't feel like travelling to Europe, the main reason that he doesn't have Sydney and Athing run in Europe is that he doesn't care very much about meets outside of USAs and the Olympics/World Championships.
6. Aaliyah Butler (I am a big Fan of Hers, She can be really good in my opinion, As a Person she is like an Angel just Wonderful, I am Shocked most on Letsrun like Femke Bol more than her it seems.
7. Gabby Thomas
8. Isabella Whittaker
9. Jameesha Ford Ran under 49 Relay Legs 2 or 3 times this Season
Alternates
Henrietta Hager
Natalie Dumas (High School Record Attempt)
Dejanna Oakley (Big Breakthrough at NCAA's From Jamaica which is a Sprint Factory And They have LOTS Of Fans = Great TV Ratings)
Lieke Klaver
Femke Bol should not be invited based on her last 400m... horrendous.
6. Aaliyah Butler (I am a big Fan of Hers, She can be really good in my opinion, As a Person she is like an Angel just Wonderful, I am Shocked most on Letsrun like Femke Bol more than her it seems.
7. Gabby Thomas
8. Isabella Whittaker
9. Jameesha Ford Ran under 49 Relay Legs 2 or 3 times this Season
Alternates
Henrietta Hager
Natalie Dumas (High School Record Attempt)
Dejanna Oakley (Big Breakthrough at NCAA's From Jamaica which is a Sprint Factory And They have LOTS Of Fans = Great TV Ratings)
Excellent Field, but Naser and Paulino should be in it. I hope Aaliyah Butler AKA (Liyah B) Gets under 49 and maybe even runs under Richard Ross's American Record.
Excellent Field, but Naser and Paulino should be in it. I hope Aaliyah Butler AKA (Liyah B) Gets under 49 and maybe even runs under Richard Ross's American Record.
No matter what the topic is you always seem to talk about Aaliyah Butler. Go ask her out already.
Excellent Field, but Naser and Paulino should be in it. I hope Aaliyah Butler AKA (Liyah B) Gets under 49 and maybe even runs under Richard Ross's American Record.
"My guess is that it's an okay field with the best American Nike contracted 400 runners (Butler, Holmes etc), Isabella Whittaker and one or two from the Caribbean, but ultimately it's set up for SML to run for a time - even though Whittaker could make it interesting. I'd doubt that as a non-DL event there would be many overseas athletes in it, especially ones not sponsored by Nike (bad enough from their perspective the two best in the field will be NB and ON athletes to begin with)."
Pretty good guess I thought. Naser and Paulino both adidas athletes and threats to beat her so no chance they were ever going to be in this race.
"My guess is that it's an okay field with the best American Nike contracted 400 runners (Butler, Holmes etc), Isabella Whittaker and one or two from the Caribbean, but ultimately it's set up for SML to run for a time - even though Whittaker could make it interesting. I'd doubt that as a non-DL event there would be many overseas athletes in it, especially ones not sponsored by Nike (bad enough from their perspective the two best in the field will be NB and ON athletes to begin with)."
Pretty good guess I thought. Naser and Paulino both adidas athletes and threats to beat her so no chance they were ever going to be in this race.
As a non-Diamond event, the field is comparable in quality to the women's Diamond 400m races in Oslo and Stockholm. I think that's impressive, considering how quickly the field was assembled.
Sydney was planning on racing Paulino and Naser at the GST LA meet, so the suggestion that they weren't added to the Eugene field because they are "threats" to beat Sydney doesn't add up.
Excellent Field, but Naser and Paulino should be in it. I hope Aaliyah Butler AKA (Liyah B) Gets under 49 and maybe even runs under Richard Ross's American Record.
No matter what the topic is you always seem to talk about Aaliyah Butler. Go ask her out already.
As a non-Diamond event, the field is comparable in quality to the women's Diamond 400m races in Oslo and Stockholm. I think that's impressive, considering how quickly the field was assembled.
Sydney was planning on racing Paulino and Naser at the GST LA meet, so the suggestion that they weren't added to the Eugene field because they are "threats" to beat Sydney doesn't add up.
'Planning on racing' and actually racing are two different things. Unfortunately, we know not whether they would have all run.
It's unfortunate we don't have Naser, Paulino or Thomas in he Pre 40m, the 3 fastest women so far this season. However, we do have current 4th & 5th fastest in Whittaker & Butler. 6th - 8th (Bol, Jaeger & Oakley) are also missing. 9th is McLaughlin herself, so she is still facing off against two women faster than her, on paper, this season. That in itself is somewhat promising for a good race. On top of that we of course have super talented Adeleke & Anning, although neither have broken 50 seconds yet this season.
All-in-all, it's a decent line up, but one assumes McLaughlin is ready & will win, or else she would not be on the start line. She needs to improve her SB by a full 1 second to beat the NR (!) but she has made that type of jump in form before. It would be kinda funny if she missed it again by 1/100th or so though :-)