“I wanted to challenge myself. I felt like this is the year I wanted to step out of the box and really push myself in a different way,” confessed Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone after she crossed the finish line with a season best of 48.90 to win the gold at the USATF championships earlier this month. In fact, she ditched the hurdles to run the open 400 this season, and so far, it has been a decent sprint for McLaughlin-Levrone. Although her quest to surpass the women’s 400m American record has not been fulfilled yet, she is now eyeing to clinch the gold in the same discipline at the upcoming Tokyo World Championships. And with the season she has had so far, she seems ready. Yet track coach Rob Anderson isn’t convinced.

On August 27, Coach Rob shared a YouTube video analyzing Sydney McLaug

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