For the stars of Team USA’s track and field, Eugene, Oregon, is on their route to the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.
Olympian Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone is joined by fellow world champions Noah Lyles and Sha’Carri Richardson, as well as a who’s-who of American athletics, in a competition that starts on June 21 at Hayward Field and puts slots for the Olympics in question for next month.
The men’s 100-meter event is the most powerful, with the current world champion Lyles competing against Christian Coleman (2019 winner), Fred Kerley (2022 world champion and silver medallist at the Tokyo Olympics), Kenneth Bednarek (200-meter Olympic and world medallist), and Cravont Charleston (surprise national champion last year), among others.
Coleman, King, Lyles, Bednarek, and Erriyon Knighton—a two-time world medallist in the 200-meter event—are also scheduled to compete.
Richardson has had an incredible year. A year ago, she won the U.S. title on this same track, and in August, she won her first international gold in Budapest. She also won the 200-meter bronze at the Worlds, and in Eugene, she plans to try to make the Olympic squad in both sprint events.
Since a knee injury forced McLaughlin-Levrone to withdraw from Worlds last year, McLaughlin-Levrone has experienced nothing but excellence on the track in 2024. In her season debuts for each event, she set world records in the 400-meter and 400-meter hurdles for 2024. She also made an impression in the 200-meter last month.
At Trials, she will only participate in the hurdles.
