Watch Lauryn Williams bring home the baton for Team USA in the prelims of the 4x100m on Thursday. The squad recorded a near-record time to help advance to the finals.

GOLD MEDAL. Team USA, anchored by Lauryn Williams in yesterday’s prelims, wins gold in the 4x100m relay.
Relay Redemption: Williams finishes blazing prelim run
by J. Brady McCollough/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Anchored by Lauryn Williams, Team USA put up a blazing time to win its heat in the prelims of the 4x100m relay.
Lauryn Williams will run the anchor leg for the U.S. women’s 4x100 relay in the preliminaries on Thursday. Read the full story in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette here.
Amy Deem (far left) and Lauryn Williams (far right) pose with First Lady Michelle Obama at the Olympics.
An athlete must be incredibly talented to make it to the Olympic games. To run in those games three times takes an even more extraordinary amount of skill, and Florida has its own Olympic Super Girl in University of Miami alumna Lauryn Williams.
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Amy Simpson (Milesplit) Read full story here |
New post on Lauryn Williams by Michael Casagrande of the Sun Sentinel: “Past Olympic relay troubles not troubling former UM star heading to London Olympics”







