Jun 29, 2024 07:30 AM
That mantra has stayed planted in the 26-year-old’s brain over the past three years, ever since an upset loss at the Tokyo Games left him with everything in this sport, except its biggest prize. In Tokyo three years ago, he cleared all 10 hurdles but faded late and lost by 0.05 to Jamaica’s Hansle Parchment, who runs in his country’s national championship this weekend. Holloway called it one of the worst races he’d ever run and one of Parchment’s best.
Thomas ran a smooth curve and accelerated down the homestretch to hit a time even she wasn’t expecting. She said she’d love to put another low number up in the final Saturday. Two summers ago on this track, Lyles ran 19.31 to beat by .01 Michael Johnson’s hallowed American record, set at the Atlanta Games in 1996. The world record belongs to Usain Bolt at 19.19.Olympic silver medalist Rai Benjamin stayed on pace for a return to the games, finishing his semifinal in the 400 hurdles in 47.97, the only sub-48 time of the meet so far.