In some ways, track and field served up a tantalizing preview of what’s to come next year at the Paris Olympics.
NOAH LYLES— part of his 3-for-3 performance in the sprints — was how track is one of those true international sports, while the NBA, for instance, is not.
“I watch the NBA Finals and they have ‘world champion’ on their head. World champion of what? The United States?” Lyles said. “Don’t get me wrong. I love the U.S. — at times — but that ain’t the world.”If Lyles can push track back to the popularity it enjoyed in the 1980s, or even during Usain Bolt’s reign from 2008-17, he might resonate the way an NBA star does. The real push, however, doesn’t come at worlds, it comes at the Olympics.
Will she try to defend her title in the 400-meter hurdles, where she holds the world record? Or will she go for the 400 flat, which she had been running through 2023 before a minor knee injury took her off the track.in Budapest in McLaughlin-Levrone’s absence.Take Danielle Williams, for instance. The Jamaican hurdler won the event as a heavy underdog to add this gold to her one from 2015.At the Olympics, it’s even more difficult to predict.
But which three? Hassan has teased the possibility of running the 5,000, 10,000 and the marathon, the way Czechoslovakia’s Emil Zátopek did in 1952 .At the Tokyo Games, she took home two Olympic gold medals and a bronze . In Budapest, she tackled those same three events again, winning bronze in the 1,500 and silver in the 5,000 but falling at the end of the 10,000. She also
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