“It’s iron sharpening iron.”
This time, it was the 21-year-old McLaughlin who claimed gold in, crushing her own world record of 51.90 by nearly half a second. She set the previous mark in Eugene, Oregon, at the U.S. Olympic Trials in June of this year.
Muhammad, the reigning Olympic and world champion, finished just over a tenth of a second back in 51.58 for the silver medal. Femke Bol of the Netherlands was third in 52.03—which also would have been a world record before McLaughlin’s performance in June.. "What a great race. I'm just grateful to be out here celebrating that extraordinary race and representing my country.
“You know we’ve practiced the last 40 meters so many times in practice, so it was nothing unfamiliar for me,”. “I knew I had to go and give it everything I had into a dip at the line.” The victory was McLaughlin’s first Olympic medal. In 2016, she became one of the youngest track and field Olympians for the United States whenSince then, the two athletes have pushed the event from a near afterthought to one of the marquee races of the Olympic Games. They finished 1-2 at the
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