It took her like 5 goes at the American record and she couldn't get it, then she goes and jogs it in the semi and almost gets the world record in the final, make it less obvious Sydney and Bobby
Guys, rain doesn’t matter that much in the 400 when it’s not that hard. I knew that would be fast. Great race - but I think with slightly slightly better pacing Sydney would have had the WR. Still a great race. I think she is in WR shape but just missed.
Lane 9 was a blessing in disguise for paulino, not being able to see Syd probably just allowed her to focus on going out as hard as possible ala Niekerk in 2016
they've focused their whole athletics programme on one event, even Tebogo ran a lot there. It's what happens when a nation has a breakout athlete like Makwala and they're based next door to one of the greatest 400m nations of all time. Copycat sport.
So it’s some sort of osmosis thing? Got it. Crazy!
The US might win some more distance medals and stop moaning about how they've got it harder if they put all their athletes into 3 events