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DeeDee Trotter, winner in 53.08: “In the past here at USA’s I’ve run 51.95 or so, but I’ve already run 52.1, so I was expecting to run 51 again. I think it was very possible when I looked up at the time. I was within striking distance in spite of my little trip out there.”

On her trip half way through the race - “From the best of my knowledge I was in (lane) 5. I broke really long which is typically my style of running. I won’t break sharp. I’ll take it all the way to the 200-meter mark on my break, which I did. Somewhere within the third stride in hitting that turn I felt somebody’s leg in the back of my foot. I actually thought it was going to stop the entire race at that point, because when I looked up I was in lane 2 or 3 and I’m like, “what the heck just happened?”

That’s never happened to me before in the history of me running the 400, whether it be collegiate or professional. So when that happened my natural reaction was if I wasn’t on the ground was to keep running. I just took off as fast as I could from that point.”