Sanya Richards-Ross Talks 2016

Published by Athletics Weekly on December 28, 2015

For many of us, the women’s 400m was one of the great races of the London Olympics in 2012 as Christine Ohuruogu almost caught the eventual winner, Sanya Richards-Ross, with a characteristic late run.

But that is not how Richards-Ross remembers the race at all. She said: “My memory is seeing DeeDee Trotter a little bit ahead of me and thinking, ‘Come on San, go, go, go to the finish line’.

“I kept pushing and was 99% sure that I crossed the finish line first. And I was pleased to see my name first on the scoreboard, but I honestly thought that DeeDee was second and was surprised to see Christine’s name as I had only remembered passing DeeDee. I knew that Christine always finishes well but I had no idea that she was coming so fast.”