Track star's golden world-record run

Track sensation Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone blew away all competition in her Olympics final during a world-record run.

The US 400m hurdler triumphed by more than a second in Paris against the best runners on the planet, setting a new world’s best of 50.37s.

Fellow American Anna Cockrell took silver and Femke Bol of the Netherlands the bronze.

For winner McLaughlin-Levrone, who’s still only 25, Olympic gold and a world record were merely more opportunities to praise God for her success.

In her winner’s press conference, she said: “I credit all that I do to God.

“He’s given me a gift, he’s given me a drive to just want to continue to improve upon myself, and I have a platform and I want to use it to glorify him.

“So whenever I step on the track it’s always the prayer of, ‘God, let me be the vessel in which You’re glorified, whatever the result is – how I conduct myself, how I carry myself, not just how I perform.’

“So it’s just freedom in knowing that regardless of what happens, he’s going to get the praise through me. That’s why I do what I do.”

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