Sydney McLaughlin Is WAAAAAAY Faster Than We Thought || L.A. Grand Prix 200 Meters 

Its getting hard to imagine what Sydney *can't* do at this point

It’s exciting to see what she can do whenever she steps on the track. Sydney is just on another level 🤯

Sydney's an athletic beast. But a Steiner 2nd after almost a year off due to injury is pretty darn good too.

22.07 *AGAINST THE WIND* 🌬️ ⏩😮 ...and EASNG out of the blocks in 0.548. *WTFFFF* 😮

Just recently read she will only doo 400h at Olympics. Definitely wanted to also see a 400m race since races like this show how incredible she is at whatever she does👌.

She's truly a running prodigy. Very well-balanced.

I was there in person. It was an awesome race! Great meet! Rai killed it, Norman killed it, and Hoppel. That’s impressive considering the track seemed a little slower than usual today.

That’s just absolutely incredible. A phenom amongst phenoms. She didn’t even win it in a small margin. Surely we have to believe after this start to her season that she is at least as good as she has ever been, if not more fit. I’m so excited to see what she does this year. In general, this LA Grand Prix was a phenomenal meet. Rai’s 46.6 400mH debut is also scary.

Was there to witness, feels great seeing Sydney race at my alma mater UCLA

Abby looked great for her comeback. Saw this live, too!

Sydney McLaughlin is super talented.

Can’t help but think this is just a flex from Sydney 🤣 Bol is good. Really good. But Sydney is still at another level imo.

i still cant wrap my ahead around ur previous Sydney video where she won the 200m and 100m hurdles and now she goes and wins the 200m again with established 200m names dam

One of the best in the world at the 200m already and she's only using to train for her other events. Unreal.

Sydney is a perfectionist. She does not compete to come second regardless of the event. We are witnessing an athlete who is transferring and utilising skills between different events to her advantage in order to be the very best. Well done, Sydney.

So glad you covered this. Been waiting for a long time to see this 👀

Bob Kersee is something else

I said last week that Sydney will win this race and no one believed me. Don’t forget her coach is Bob kersee! One of the greatest 200m coaches of all time

Been watching track & field since the early 1980s. Her coach’s wife is probably the best all-around female track athlete when we include field events but Sydney is *capable* of winning a Gold Medal at 100m hurdles, 200m, 400m, 400m hurdles. If she pulls off such a feat before she retires….she’s the *GOAT.* She could probably win the 100m *if she trained exclusively for the short sprints, 100m & 200m.* Sydney is *ridiculous*

The goat

It’s important to point out that her reaction time was over HALF A SECOND in this race, so, if she’d had a good tailwind and a more normal reaction time, she’d be able to EASILY go well under 22.

How are you doing this while at the Atlanta City Games? Impressive

Sydney is putting up her hand to run second leg in the 4x100m relay folks

Looking forward to 21-30 June The USA Olympic Trials then onward to 26 July - 11 August The 2024 Olympic in Paris.

And it's only the beginning of her season, she will do much better in 2 months!

The 4-5 steps push out of the curve is just beautiful and scary :) Femke Bol has her work cut out for her this Summer 😯

Sydney impressed me and surprised me. She is always fire when she steps on the track. One of the best athletes to ever walk the planet. To get a crazy strong start like that as a 400m hurdler is other worldly. Gabby Thomas will be back and stronger in the Olympic trails. She great regarding racing strategy and her overall strength. If she's healthy in the summer I think she's a lock for a medal behind Sherricka Jackson. Abby Stiener's top end speed looks back even after an injury. Great to see her again. Hopefully she can make the olympic team as well. I'm excited for Paris.

No one seems to be talking about her reaction time: 0.548… over HALF A SECOND reacting to the gun! Had she reacted at the minimum 0.100, her final time would be 21.62, enough for 5th fastest ALL TIME!! Add a +2.0 tail wind and she’d be under 21.6.

She should drop the hurdles and try to do the 200/400 double. Success would make her the greatest ever.

Fire vid

I really hope and pray she stays healthy through the Olympics. I have seen too many athletes pull a muscle, get sick, etc. and not full.fill their potential.

If she can dip under 50 second statistically this is the greatest athletics record in history. Maybe Sotomayor’s wr or bolt’s 9.58 are there but this is just pure insanity.

Theres no world in which femke bol should be mentioned in the same sentence as Sydney....

Wow…Syd is a total freak of nature!

She just brings so much strength and endurance to a race half the distance with no gates

Amazing. Just read an ABC article where her coach confirms that she will be competing in the 400mH for the olympic trials. Cant wait for Sydney vs Femke!

All the Femke Bol fans are going to learn real quick that Sydney is the true GOAT.

I would love for Sydney to do 200m from 2026 in the fallow year of athletics into 2028 going to the LA Olympics. There is something about Sydney and her ability to be so versatile that could make a major threat in the 200m. This race in my opinion, is one of many that showcases she can flow between almost all the sprint events and could be dominant in any event she chooses (The 100mh, 200m, 400m & 400mh specifically). Win or Lose at Olympics, I want to see more of Sydney in the 200m, I can definitely see a 21.8 from her.

Untouchable for real

She’s a completely dominant athlete. She can probably hold her own in the 100m too, but anything 200-400 she’s THE ONE. She’s HER 💪🏽

Wow ! I thought she would take third or fourth, she absolutely dominated . Extra-Ordinary

Looks like she's going after her own world record. Hope she gets back to the 400 flat soon. It'll be exciting watching her chase that record.

Yeah, Sidney isn't resting on her laurels and wishful thinking to anyone who thinks any of her competitors can keep up with her in the 400 hurdles . She looks ready for a low 50 point or possibly dipping into 49 seconds. She getting better. Speed, endurance, the full package. Hopefully she'll run an open 400 soon so she can break the American record. That was extremely impressive considering the women she just took down, Femke would have come in dead last, probably at least a half second behind Sydney.

That is incredible for a speed training one-off race. I wish someone else in the race had pushed her hard to the finish just to get her under 22. But it’s obvious she can do a 21 something. There are many sprint specialists who never get under 22, and here Sydney does it just for speed training for her main event. What an athlete. Another world record coming, and Femke, as good as she is, will settle for Silver. But it’s athletes like these that push the limits. We are so blessed to get to see them. Appreciate it and tell your kids and grandkids!

2:28 "Sydney's abilities cannot be understated" 🤔

She’s breaking the world record for sure in 400 hurdles

1:48: “…she is NOT a 200m runner”… apparently she is! Haha

The 2024 Prefontaine Classic is this coming weekend. It is going to be very interesting. Sydney may shatter more records there.

Schedule depending I think the 200's are a bid to make the 4x1 in addition to the 4x4 teams this olympic year

MCLAUGHLIN'S RULE!

I can’t imagine Sydney going below 50 sec. It would be insane.

A genuine Superstar.

Greatest all around runner alive

Bro. Abby and Gabby were out here running the 100m dash less than 100 minutes before the 200m. I mean that does kinda matter when Sydney was completely fresh though it’s irrelevant to the fantastic time she ran. I’m glad she’s not doubling at these events like before. Much smarter

It will be a guaranteed Faceplant for Bol in the Paris Olympics 400mh finals now 😅

What’s really WILD is it appears she WASNT EVEN WEARING SPIKES! Unless I’m mistaken, she was the only athlete wearing regular running shoes, which are significantly heavier than track spikes. Could be another couple tenths difference.

Congrats to Sydney although I suspect she doesn't need any outside noise to tell her how good she is or to use that noise for motivation, the great ones are self motivated! I wouldn't count Abby out just yet, still getting her legs under herself since surgery! It seems she's still searching for that top end speed which she had in her college days, that last 20 meters was hers and I expected to see it in this race but it wasn't quite there yet. The next few months will be very entertaining with the women, I predict it'll take a sub 22 to be on the Olympic team in the women's 200!

This lady is gonna pull a Flojo performance this year. Simply being unbeatable.

Based on that effort it appears she'll go very close to 48.00 for 400M flat over coming months, with an outside chance of dipping slightly under, which hasn't been done outside the dubious world records of the 1980s. Even her 400M hurdles WR looks under threat. Another Bolt in her event.

Sydney!🌟

Levrone can just hop into anything and dominate. Don't you love it?

"Subsequent" Olympic Games, not "preceding." "Preceding" means "to come before." SML is expanding her comfort zone, and the rest of women's track needs to take note. Unless the 400 final at the Trials goes completely off the rails, the USA entry into the women's 4x400 should be spectacular.

I would have preferred her to break a 39-years old, 400m flat world record, then break her own 400 hurdle record that won't be broken afterward in the coming 50 years. Marita Koch needs to be removed from the records board, and she is the only one that can do it.

A 400mh world record coming

Always a gr8 race when Abby Stiener and Gabby Thomas running. (The two beauty queens.)

Can't wait to see her at the olympics !!

Other than 400h and 400, now also 200 at maximum possible level. What will she drop at Oly?

Think my man doesn’t understand how fast you have to be to split 48 low on a relay leg and 48 mid on open 400. Her running 22 flat is what anyone who knows track would expect. Maybe if she dipped into 21.70 would I be surprised but you can’t be serious here

SML is the GOAT

This reminds me of her first open 4 last year. This race right here is what that was all about last year 👀👀👀

Not exactly an upset. Steiner is coming off of surgery and is nowhere near in form

What a wake up call to these other sprinters. They better step up their game big time.

Sydney is a great athlete .... and a great person.

what was Gabby Thomas saying about her Jamaican roots making her fast?

Honestly i saw Elaine Thompson lose every race, just do enough to qualify but when D-Day came she won everything by a few seconds surprising her Jamaican teammate who was favourite in everything. My point is, not every runner is going hard until silverware is the goal

..hope it's not too hot in Paris in July, but things will be heating up at the track!

She’s definitely contesting the 400m at WC next year and having a go at that world record.

OK, I thought Bol might be able to get close to her... doesn't look like it with that kind of speed!

Wait... after breaking the 400 hurdles record by over a second, and running the fastest 4x400 relay split by over a second in Eugene, Oregon 2022, we’re only Just Now discovering that Sydney is fast???

bob kersey maybe about to switch her to the 200 next year...if so all 200 meter runners should be scared...

Sydney LOVES❤

Would love to know Sydney's 100M split time.

Sydney should run a 300 and the never run 500 to get speed and endurance for the 400 and 400 hurdles. Bracketing rules!

Sydney is one of the biggest female stars already. I knew she would do good but this is surprising.

Bet she could win long jump too with her past experience

Syd is a straight up alien . If ever anyone has seen a more complete female sprinter in the history of athletics including flo jo and the current big 3 from jamaica Id like to hear who it is. The woman had not competed in a 200 m in 6 years. She lines up in the box with imo the 2 greatest 200m sprinters the USA has , and in a workman like , easy as you please manner torches both while posting a personal best of 22.03 ! Not even close. Honestly.. nothing terribly shocking here in as far as Syd is concerned. this woman is the final word in being prepared to compete. What I found astounding was Gabbys baffelingly slow and honestly dismal showing. Please , someone who was there tell me she was holding back.. dogging it for some reason known only to her , god and her coach. Its a forgone conclusion after seeing her in LA that if ... she wanted it , yea she would own the 200m field . And when I say field I mean the entire World. every single thing she decides to compete in ... Its lights out. Will miss very much seeing her astound the World with the first undoped sub 48 clocking in the 400m if the rumors prove true that she will once again defend her 400m hurdles title in paris. It isn't really necessary although any chance to see Syd and Femke on the track at the same time is simply must see. The highest drama the world could hope for is that Syd doesnt defend in the hurdles and locks in on the 400m sprint. Why ? Because its the one event that she can and should compete in where the outcome is not a forgone conclusion . Love me some Femke Bol...not a snow balls chance in hell she beats Sydney in the 400 h. The 400m sprint however... Oh yea ..this is definitely one she could lose with the likes of Paulido , and shana miller Ouibo to deal with. But if she jumps in .. she wont lose. As I said , she IS the final word in preparedness

Sydney is untouchable

When is Noah Lyles 150m Atlanta Games going to be uploaded?

Waaaaay more drugs than you thought too. One can disregard how effortlessly she runs the toughest sprint in the world (400m hurdles) or how visibly unexhausted she is after the race, even though there's a remarkable similarity with Flo Jo on both counts. But the harder to miss red flags are all there - huge improvements on world records regularly, big breaks away from the track, ability to compete in events she's never run competitively before and still beat the world's best, and coached by Bob Kersee who was once known as Bob the Chemist coz he only worked with athletes who agreed to take PEDs.

It wasn’t an upset to me, I predicted this

Why doesnt she also run 200 at the Olympics? She will probably win!!

With Jesus✝️🙏🙏🙏 all things are possible. Just ask Sydney

Gabby is certainly not going all out. However with this speed, her 400/hurdles PB is gonna drop

Wow..! She can run faster and UPSET OTHER FAVOURITES. She will run Somewhere 21.60s or 21.70s

I wish her the best. my favourite, to win a Gold.

Lol. I was expecting a 21.7 after reading the title. Still very impressive

What was it? A two heat finals? I didn’t even see Abby Steiner.

I wonder what derailed the two-year 400M project. Paulino, possibly?

She will probably break the 400mH world record this year

Sydney is the GOAT of track and field at whatever she wants to compete in.