(Reuters) - With World Championship titles and the 400-metre hurdles world record in his possession, there is only one jewel left for Karsten Warholm to add to his athletics crown: Olympic gold. "You have to be at a world-record level to be able to compete for a gold medal in Tokyo," Warholm told reporters in the lead up to the Games. In front of an ecstatic, home crowd earlier this month, Warholm ran 46.70 seconds to break Kevin Young's 29-year-old world record by eight hundredths of a second. He described it as a relief after months of speculation over who could topple the longest-standing record in men's track. His chief rival, 23-year-old Benjamin poses perhaps the biggest threat, having nearly broken the 400m hurdles world record himself at the U.S. team trials last month, where he won the final in 46.83.

Source: The Star July 17, 2021 09:00 UTC