"She told me I had put in so much work, I have been doing it such a long time that I can't really go out like that," Hudson-Smith told BBC Sport. Matthew Hudson-Smith - 400m Personal best 44.48 seconds (2016) 2021 best 45.51 Olympic qualifying standard 44.90"I don't want to be one of those athletes who looks back in their career and says they could have done more. This season, his fourth in the United States, he has been alongside Olympic 400m champions Wayde van Niekerk and Shaunae Miller-Uibo and American sensation Noah Lyles. "Honestly It makes the sport boring if people say the same thing, try and give the right answer every time. And, as Hudson-Smith explains, much longer to work out which bits are worth preserving as they are.

Source: BBC June 23, 2021 05:37 UTC