Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone 22.07 LA Grand Prix 200

No one has ever pulled off a 400/400h double. It would be legendary. I hope she goes for it in 2025 or 2027. We know that she's the 400h GOAT but to be truly one of the GOATs in the sport, she needs to challenge herself even more and pull off the rarest feat.

If she wants to do this, WA needs to accommodate the schedule towards her and split up the 400 and 400h rounds with a break day in between. Similar to the Michael Johnson schedule in ATL 1996.

Went down the rabbit hole. Harry Hillman pulled off the 400m/400m hurdles double at the 1904 Olympics. Only time that has ever happened.

After seeing Shericka Jackson run a 22.8, Sydney might as well triple.

But seriously, sprint times have sucked this year on the women's side. Everyone who was fast last year has opened up pretty slow. Still a lot of time for that change, but it simply made Sydney's 200 that much more exciting.

Being faster in only the 200 doesn't help in the 400H. But if she is also faster in the 400, then it would help because:

1. Her steps in between hurdles could be faster.

2. She might be able to extend the number of hurdles where she takes 14 steps. (Right now it's only to hurdle 7.)

3. She can run faster after hurdle 10.

In any case, we don't know if she is actually faster in the 200 than she was in 2022 when she set the 400H world record, because she hadn't run a 200 since 2018.

If she had run a 200 in 2022, she might have run 22.15 or 22.07 or 22.00. There is no way to know. So we don't actually know if she is faster in the 200 now or not.

The 400 is not off the table, despite Kersee claiming that it is. He says all sorts of things that turn out not to be true.

Sydney will most likely run a 400 in the next 2 weeks. If she goes sub 49, watch how fast Kersee enters Sydney into the Olympic Trials in both the 400H and the 400.

Yes. I have noticed that with some of the posters here. They are tiresome. And I do agree with you that they hate themselves.

How many times do you need to be told to stop replying to your own responses? You are not fooling anyone. It's just desperate. Stop it!

I was hoping she would have tackled the 400 this year. I would like to think she can go faster than 48.7 now that her body knows the feel and rhythm of the flat 400. I don't know of anyone who has done the 400/400H professionally. And I'm too lazy to google.

Perhaps her goal is run a sub 50 400H. And then move to the 400. That's what I'm hoping she does.

Only 3 athletes that I know of have ever done the 200/400 double at the Olympics. And you want her to do the 400/400H? You crazy. Her challenge should be to run a sub 50 400H and then move to the 400 and see how close she could get to a sub 48.

The long sprint - the 400M, can burst your lungs if you let it (well at least it felt like that to me). Given that it is made up of 2 blocks of 200Ms, you can do speed work, as she is doing to increase foot speed and speed endurance for both blocks. If she can run the first 200M in 23s and the last 2 in 26s she could go sub 50 for the long sprint 400H.

This.

Very underwhelmed by sprinting as a whole on both the men and women's side. Sha'Carri has opened up slower than usual. Sherricka looked like she had a parachute attached to her back......and she still won her race. Where is SAFP? ETH? Neita has been the only top sprinter of note doing anything.

And Syd blows most of them away in a training race. You can't overstate how impressive that 22.08 was. Even more reason why track NEEDS her to compete more.

The men's 200m has had some pretty strong times this year, Kenny B, Tebogo, Courtney Lindsay and Zharnel Hughes have all ran pretty fast. Akani Simbine has finally shown signs of life in the men's 100m recently with that 9.90 into a sligh headwinds. Funnily enough, the hurdles have probably had the fastest times this year honestly with quite a few people running 13.1 low and Grant Holloway with a 13.07 into a decent headwind and the 100m hurdles on the women's side being pretty competitive with quite a lot getting into the 12.4s range. Plus Rai Benjamin and Alison dos Santos opening up their seasons absolutely blazing.

Only the men's 200m and men's/women's hurdles have had multiple people faster than the fastest collegiates/high schooler this year.

Everyone still believing the charade huh... She has so much FloJo juice running thru her veins its laughable. Holding back and smoking the best in the 200M. Nothing to see here, move right along..

Where you surprised when she qualified for the WJr team at age 14; made the US Olympic team at age 16; has 7 of the top-10 high school 400m hurdle marks; has 9 of the top-10 400m hurdle world's Jr marks; as an 18-year-old true freshman won the NCAA 400h title. This is everything she did in just one event up to age 18; as you surprised Syd is good or do you think she was doping as a child?

It would be great if specialists from other distances would give the 400m hurdles a try.

It happened in the past with Marie José Perec (48.25 and 53.21) or Irina Privalova.

Maybe athletics is too professionalized now and athletes don’t want to take risks.

even funnier is she would have gone 21.7x if she had a decent start.

She ran 22.3 as a freshman - is she not allowed to improve ever? Also what makes you think she was holding back?

Thank you. These incels are so stupid. As if she wasn't a prodigy from a child.

FFS would you STFU and go away!