Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone was in tears. She had done something nobody, from track analysts to retired athletes, from fans to the speaker in the commentators’ box, would have thought. Trailing in the second bend of the 400m at the World Athletics Championships, she turned the tables in the home straight. But it’s one thing to be fast, but fast enough to defeat the 400m world champion in her very discipline, and that too in the fastest time of the past 40 years?. “ McLaughlin-Levrone trying to go for an unprecedented gold medal over the four lap. And she’s got the edge, but Paulino’s coming back .” In the end, Paulino could not.

McLaughlin-Levrone became the new 400m world champion in the second-fastest time ever recorded in the 400m, 47.78s, just behind the world record of 47.60 set by E

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