Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone Starting a Family, Noah Lyles vs Rai Benjamin Dream 150m Race, Marcell Jacobs Changes Coaches

Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone announced that she will be starting a family in 2026 with her husband and taking the year off. This is big news for Sydney and an amazing personal achievement, but also comes at the perfect time in her career as there are no Olympics or World Championships in 2026. Lets discuss what this means for the women’s 400m this year, as well as some other women who have had children and returned to the track better than ever.

Noah Lyles and Rai Benjamin announced that they may be running a 150m race at the Ostrava meeting on June 16th 2026. Though this is still many months away, this is a big opportunity to showcase something different in terms of events and hype for a specific event. But who else would we like to see race them in this 150m race?

2020 Olympic 100m Champion Lamont Marcel Jacobs recently announced that he will be returning to his long time coach Paolo Camossi. This comes off moving to Florida in 2023 to train with Rana Reider as well as dealing with various injury setbacks. Will this be a good move for him?

We also breakdown some of the recent NCAA Highlights from the past weekend

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Sources:

Sydney announcement: https://www.instagram.com/p/DT0e_r_j2sP/?hl=en&img_index=1

Noah vs Rai 150m race: https://x.com/LylesNoah/status/2015841450496290987

Lamont Marcell Jacobs Coaching Change: https://www.fidal.it/content/Mei-Jacobs-torna-ad-allenarsi-con-Camossi-/181849

NCAA Leaderboards: https://www.tfrrs.org/index.html

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Chapters:

00:00 Intro

11:22 Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone + 400m Landscape

45:50 Noah Lyles vs Rai Benjamin 150m in Ostrava

1:10:03 Marcell Jacobs Changes Coaches

1:17:49 NCAA Highlights

1:27:20 Athlete Sponsorship Changes

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