Rojas, McLaughlin-Levrone go for gold at world champs | Sports

TOKYO, Sept 17, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Charismatic Venezuelan Yulimar Rojas and American star Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone go for gold in the triple jump and 400 metres flat in Thursday's action at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo. There are four finals in all, and also a first spin round the track for Britain's 800m Olympic champion Keely Hodgkinson. AFP Sport picks out the three potential highlights: McLaughlin-Levrone's smashing of the American record, which had stood for almost two decades, in her semi-final will have sent shivers down her rivals' spines. The manner in which the two-time 400m hurdles Olympic champion coasted in timing 48.29sec suggests that even East German Marita Koch's world record of 47.60sec, which was set nearly 40 years...