LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) – Olympic champion Masai Russell said she knew she had the speed to break the 100-meter hurdles world record. She just did not know what it would feel like when it happened.
“When I ran the 12.09, I was just like, wow,” the former Kentucky athlete said in a sit-down interview with WKYT.
Russell clocked 12.09 seconds on Aug. 27 at the Diamond League meet in Zurich, Switzerland, shaving three-hundredths of a second off Tobi Amusan’s 12.12. The wind reading was 0.0 meters per second. Amusan, the previous record holder, finished second in 12.23. Nadine Visser was third in 12.34…