The mixed 4x400 metres relay has been a bit of a slow burn since joining the world athletics championships in 2019, with star athletes often giving it a miss, but Gabby Thomas said she, and the United States, were taking it very seriously in Budapest.
Thomas, whose 21.60 seconds 200 metres at the U.S. trials is the world lead this year, is among the favourites for that race but is also running the mixed 4x400, the women’s 4x400 and the women’s 4x100.
Given the extraordinary depth of the U.S. in one-lap running, on the flat and over hurdles in men's and women's events, it is something of a patchy record. “But, given that you only have two athletes of each gender, it provides a really, really exciting competition for everyone to watch. So we're definitely prepared for that, we're ready to fight for that win and I think that's really exciting."
"Everyone's always been telling me to run the 400 but I didn't really want to move out from the fun, fast, exciting events, not that the 400 isn't, but everyone wants to run the 100 and 200," she said.
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