Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone admits in her new book to throwing her Rio 2016 semi-final on purpose

Lucky for her she now has a husband that can run her life and force her to do things she doesn't want to do. Yay Sydney!

Have you ever made a good comment in your life? Nobody is glorifying the yips. Have you ever competed at a high level in anything?

After this weak sh!t, that 6' NED girl is going to win, 2024 Olympic 400mH.

maybe you didn't notice biles winning the time's 2021 athlete of the year. moron

that's what happens when you write about it in a book. 7 years later. nobody is just sitting around caring about this stuff.

They now gonna maker her pay back for track suit, spikes, plane ticket and book bag

That's probably true, because I think that Sydney will skip the 400h at the Olympics and run only the 400.

After visiting this place for decades, I guess I shouldn't be surprised at the startling lack of empathy by a number of posters here, but it's disappointing nonetheless.

Letrunners tend to discuss threads like this for pages without going to the source to see what she actually said. So I looked it up.

Her new book, Far Beyond Gold: Running from Fear to Faith, isn't scheduled for release until 30Jan2024 so we don't know what she actually says in the book. All I could find was the Introduction. It's 12 paragraphs and talks about her path to finding God over a six year period from 2016 to 2022. There is no mention of intentionally tanking at Rio.

To me, as someone who who has ghostwritten two books, her book has obviously been ghostwritten by an extremely competent writer. The usage of complex sentence structure, occasional use of short punchy sentences for emphasis, em dashes, and great sentences for wrapping up each paragraph is unusually good. Of course, I would expect nothing less from the Thomas Nelson publishing house.

As far as tanking in Rio is concerned, ghostwriters often use poetic license to improve a story or to make a point. For those who care, they can read the book and make their own call as to what happened.

If you really wanted to know what Sydney said about intentionally tanking in the 2016 Rio Olympics, you could have tried a little harder to find out. Here is a quote from Sydney herself:

“I’ll never forget: I must have been going over the eighth hurdle and I was thinking, ‘I’m going to make sure I don’t make this final,’” the Dunellen native told NJ Advance Media this week. “I don’t care if my season ends early, I don’t care if I sweep (the medals) with the other (Americans), I just want this to be done.
“I remember crossing the line like, ‘See? Your season’s done. Whoo hoo!’

It’s crazy how literally not trying is now seen as bravery

I don't see it as bravery. Sydney has an anxiety problem that she has admitted to and she has been trying to work on it. No shame in admitting that you aren't perfect.

Hearing any top elite claim to have lost on purpose makes an instant hater out of me. Either

a) cheap excuse, don't want to admit they failed
b) wasted their own and everyone else's time, including whoever would have had their lane.

DNFers better have a good excuse, but if you finish and sandbag there is no excuse.

She was a minor and her coach and father forced her to compete in the 2016 Trials against her will.

It's not a good look for you to hate a minor.

Sage Canaday.

Are ghost writers usually as knowledgeable as your clinically insane letsruns user that notices that Sydneys gait looked different down the homestretch?

These days the word admit is too often accepted when the correct term is claim

All I know is Syd is boring (which is refreshing, generally) and there a ton of other celeb autobiographies that have come out recently … so who is the market for this book?