Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone has put the women’s 400m field on alert: she’s here to challenge the best.
On Friday evening (9 June) at the Paris DiamondLeague athletics meet, the American 400m hurdles world record holder sent a loud message, starting fast out of the blocks in her first flat lap race in nearly five years.
However, the Dominican Republic’s Marileidy Paulinothe world and Olympic silver medallist, caught McLaughlin-Levrone down the final bend before pulling ahead on the straight to take victory in a meeting record 49.12.
“I felt great during the race. I had a kind of bad start, but



