Sydney McLaughlin will actually run a Diamond League after Worlds!!! Confirmed for Brussels on Sept 8

Posters on here have disproportionate influence on T&F in general and more specifically a disproportionate influence on U.S. T&F.

S M had a winning formula. Robert Johnson, yes THIS R Johnson complained about S M not racing enough. Why would she try to be like everyone else? Other T&F athletes do not have S M's net worth. Other T&F athletes need to race often to pay their rent.

I believe Troy Aikman won a national championship for Oklahoma while injured. Look up Phil Simms on Profootballreference.com. It states two Superbowl victories. Truth: Phil Simms was only part of one Superbowl. T&F is not like American football. Leave S M alone.

I'd like to see her exposed to more in-competition testing in the lead up to worlds not after.

She's at home in L.A. and running at UCLA at the end of May as well.

Oklahoma never would have won that 1985 national title if Jerome Brown hadn't snapped Troy Aikman's ankle. The Sooners were going nowhere with the confused hybrid offense. The Aikman injury allowed Switzer to reinstate his preferred true wishbone under Jamile Holieway.

I was new to Las Vegas at the time. The end of that season was unbelievable. Every week beginning with Holieway's first start the line would move 7+ points in Oklahoma's favor. Two full months. I never saw anything like it in my subsequent 23 years in that town. And the bettors had the right idea. The only one Oklahoma didn't fully cover was a snowstorm game at Oklahoma State. That game would have been an absolute massacre on a dry field. Instead the line moved from -7 to -14 and Oklahoma won 13-0. Then somehow the next week the idiot oddsmakers did it again, opening the line -6 hosting SMU. We were literally laughing. It shot up to -13.5 in a hurry.

Anyway, I think Sydney wants to run Diamond League to have enough points for the final, since it's in the United States this year. In 2024 she'll go back to basically calling it a season after Paris.

Brussels is interesting because Bol always emphasizes it's her favorite Diamond League stop. I'm sure she'll be there. Sydney can hand Bol her first ever Diamond League hurdles defeat, other than a Young Diamond League race in 2019 in which she clipped a hurdle and landed on her face.

Maybe. I'm not holding my breath that she actually runs. She's backed out of quite a few meets.

And if she does run, it will probably not be the 400 or 400h.

"ten for the women (100, 200, 400, 1,500 and 5,000m, 400m hurdles, high jump, triple jump, shot put and javelin)."

Unfortunately, Sydney won't be giving the fans what they want to see in Brussels. After competing in the Budapest World Championships in the 400h, a few weeks later in Brussels Sydney will either jog the 400h just to collect her appearance fee. Or she will run the 200.

Bol will not mind if she does not run, lots of DL 400m and 400m hurdles races she can win.

That is over 4 months away. Plenty of time for her to change her mind, get injured, ...

I am a huge McGlaughlin fan as are many. And she makes sooo much outside of running, I am not sure people can comprehend the amount I heard. It is so much more than you think it's unreal. That being said.

She ran one short sprint race Indoors..folks can say Indoors does not matter. but it is a season that can be competed. It is end of April..no Penn appearance, a meet she as much as made her rep on as anything else she did up to that point. Personally think that sucks, but I don't train her..LOL. She is getting an awful lot of a sport that she barely compretes in. I know this sport is titles based..but she has all of that and the WR. Dos some other stuff. I do not know how much branding you are doing IN the sport if you hardly ever run.

A little more? Maybe?

Let the hating begin!!

She has to do what she (and her coach) think is best for her. But, it doesn't help the sport if she's not in the public eye then shows up to Worlds and Olympics and wins.

I'm old enough to remember when track and road racing were popular sports. I often refer people to the 1971 Dream Mile in Philadelphia (Ryan and Liquari)- look at the crowd.

That was normal. But- those runners were out there, in the public eye, on TV and in the newspapers.

They weren't racing a few times a year.

For a so-called U.S. T&F fan, English does not seem to be your primary language. Do you mean James Ryun known as Jim Ryun? Do you mean Martin Liquori known as Marty Liquori? Why would S M want to copy their racing and training? Wasn't Jim Ryun on the decline by (1969 to 1971)? Ryun was only 24 in 1971. Didn't Marty Liquori finish D.F.L., 1968 Olympics 1500m final? Wasn't Liquori injured, 1972 Olympics? Wasn't Liquroi injured, 1976 Olympics? Your examples make my case!

Dude, you need to chill. He made a perfectly salient point, with two names misspelled. It's weird that you jumped from that to "English does not seem to be your primary language".

And she was set to run in Monaco post worlds last year but dipped at the last second to run a smaller meet in Hungary instead before shutting her season down.

I'll believe it when I see it.

Sydney McLaughlin is 400mH world record holder. Sydney McLaughlin is a 400mH World Championship gold medalist. She is a 400mH Olympic gold medalist. That stated, half a dozen Let's run 14:xx to 18:xx 5000m guys say she needs to make changes.

You're confused. No one is saying Sydney isn’t successful.

We're saying that it's not good for the sport when one of it's most famous runners hardly ever races. And when she does race, it's often against low level competition, or some random event that is not a 400 or 400h.

That craziest thing about Sydney backing out of Monaco last minute was that it wasn't like she wasn't available to run in Monaco, she just chickened out. She was actually in the stands in Monaco watching the race she originally said she was going to be in.

The little meet in Hungary paid a giant appearance fee and gave Syd a chance to preview the upcoming world site. Attending a dl and not running sends a strong message for future dl appearance fees.

Her indoor appearance in Boston only happens each winter, as it's required in her contract.

I'd be surprised if she even runs dl final at pre. That's Nike territory and she is a new balance athlete.

She wants to string together a long unbeaten streak and accumulation of Olympic and world gold's. Key is to stay healthy, which means minimal racing. Also few meets make her appearances special like a heavyweight champion.

Running a bunch of races does not seem to affect sprint training negatively. So, it's particularly surprising when a sprinter skips everything but trials and champs and publicly expresses a distaste for competition, as McLaughlin did last year. I'll be shocked if she actually runs her event in Brussels.

You're confused. The Hungary meet she ran in was NOT the site of this year's world championships. It's not even in the same city.