Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone: no barrier too high for the 400m queen | Owen Lewis

The American has rewritten the hurdles record book and now posted the fastest 400m flat in four decades. At 26, her ceiling seems limitlessAs Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone and Marileidy Paulino whisked around the final bend of the 400m final at the World Championships in Tokyo, did McLaughlin-Levrone think back to when Paulino handed her just one of two career losses in the event in Paris two years prior? Probably not, though she certainly had reason to. The New Jerseyan led most of that 2023 race, ...