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Rai Benjamin, after a stellar 2024 season, remains noncommittal about attempting Karsten Warholm’s world record.
Reigning Olympic 400m hurdles champion Rai Benjamin has remained vague about prospects of attacking Karsten Warholm’s world record.
Warholm set the record at the delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games and Rai Benjamin has expressed some interest about going for the record next year but he has not given the specifics about when or where.
Rai Benjamin has enjoyed a great 2024 season and will be hoping to add the world record to his already decorated resume.
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06:45 - 17.12.2024
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After months of keeping her fans guessing, Shericka Jackson has shared a reassurance post, looking all glammed up and healthy.
He opened his season with a win at the Mt. SAC Relays before heading to the USATF Los Angeles Grand Prix where he claimed the win in the 400m hurdles.
After the victory, the two-time world champion competed at the US Olympic trials where he won and then headed to the Diamond League Meeting in Monaco.
Benjamin stunned his opponents, Karsten Warholm, the defending Olympic champion at the time and Alison Dos Santos to take the win.
At the Olympic Games, he was no fluke as he took home the Olympic title, beating Warholm to second place.
After such a fruitful season that he capped off with a gold medal for Team USA’s 4x400m relay team, Letsrun.com asked if her would attack the world record next season and he answered: “We’ll see.”
Rai Benjamin is currently the second-fastest man over the distance with Warholm the only one standing in his way.
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07:00 - 19.12.2024
‘I took it without thinking’ - Junelle Bromfield regrets her decision as attempt to cook for Noah Lyles runs into headwinds
Junelle Bromfield’s desire to cook for her fiancé Noah Lyles left her in a major dilemma as her choice of meal became too problematic to prepare.
He gave himself credit for the astonishing times he posted this season, highlighting that the relay at the Paris Olympic Games was the pinnacle.
Rai Benjamin added that being consisted has placed him at a better place this season and despite the snub from World Athletics, he is excited to have achieved the milestones.
“I saw this random fact that I scored like 1300 points in the World Athletics scoring tables four times this year and just based off performances, I mean technically if we were considering the old world record of 46.7, I’ve run under that time quite a few times this year,” Rai Benjamin added.
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19:13 - 12.12.2024
'I was embarrassed to show my face' - American sprint legend Allyson Felix reveals the sorrow of missing gold in 2008
Allyson Felix has revealed the emotional turmoil of winning silver in the 2008 Olympics, feeling devastated and letting others down.
“So for me, it’s like, whatever. I don’t really cry about that type of stuff. It’s all good. If I win, I win. If I don’t, it’s all good. The other guys are more than deserving and Letsile Tebogo had a great, great, great year, ran a phenomenal leg on the 4×4 and now did like something that’s never been done for his country.
“I’ll just say, I don’t think a lot of people could run that anchor leg like I did. So I’ll just leave it at that. It was tough man. I’m telling you right now. It was like the hardest thing I’ve had to do in my track career.”
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