Sydney McLaughlin on winning Gold at Tokyo 2020 and living for Christ
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
5 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 15 November 2021
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Sydney McLaughlin is a two-time Olympic Gold Medal track and field athlete. In the summer of 2021, Sydney set a world record time of 51:46 seconds in the 400 m hurdles in winning gold. She also was a member of the 4x4000 m relay team that captured gold. In 2016, she qualified for the Rio Olympics before her senior year of high school and became the youngest athlete to make the American Olympic track and field team since 1980.
At the age of 17, Sydney was on the cover of Sports Illustrated and was deemed as "one of the most dominant high school athletes ever." She was named the Gatorade National Female Athlete of the Year in 2015-16 and 2016-17. Her father Willie was a semi-finalist in the 400 m in the 1984 Olympic Trials and her mom was also a high school runner.
On this episode of the podcast, we talked to Sydney about winning Olympic Gold, getting engaged to her fiancé Andre, how her journey of faith has evolved and why she wants to live only for the approval of Christ.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Sports Spectrum's podcast with Sidney McLaughlin is presented by Compassion International. |
| 0:06.9 | They have been amazing partners with us here at Sports Spectrum. |
| 0:11.0 | And the work that they do, releasing children from poverty, is second to none. |
| 0:16.4 | It's so important. |
| 0:17.6 | And they do it in Jesus' name, Christ-centered. |
| 0:20.2 | And I mean the programs that |
| 0:22.2 | compassion has put together for these children are just incredible. You need to go check them out. |
| 0:28.2 | It's at fill the stadium.com is the website, fill the stadium.com. And that's a program that |
| 0:33.1 | compassion is working on right now with our pro football friends, our pro athlete friends to help fill |
| 0:40.1 | a stadium of kids in crisis, a stadium of 70,000 kids that are in need of urgent support. |
| 0:46.9 | Now, we've been doing this for over a year now, about a year and a half, and we're almost there. |
| 0:51.9 | The 70,000 seats, the 70,000 kids, man, we're almost there. |
| 0:56.4 | I mean, we're just a couple thousand away from filling this stadium, but it's still a few |
| 1:02.4 | kids that cannot remain stuck in this crisis. So we need your help. Check out fill |
| 1:08.5 | the stadium.com and help restore what COVID-19 destroyed, essential food, medical care, support for a child and their family during this pandemic. |
| 1:19.3 | Again, the website for Compassion International is fill the stadium.com. |
| 1:37.6 | Welcome to Sports Spectrum, where we bring Jesus back into the conversation. |
| 1:41.4 | Here's your host, former ESPN producer, Jason Romano. |
| 1:47.9 | And welcome everyone to the show. I am Jason Romano. This is the Sports Spectrum podcast. We're so glad you're tuning in to the program today, to the podcast. Today we got |
| 1:53.8 | an amazing guest, Sidney McLaughlin, the two-time USA Olympic gold medalist and track |
| 1:59.5 | and field athlete, the world record holder in the |
| 2:03.1 | 400 meter hurdles. Sydney's story is amazing, and she goes there. She goes pretty deep into her |
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