Dalilah Muhammad welcomes the arrival of Grand Slam Track

The Grand Slam Track, an expert monitor and discipline league, intends to spice up the profile of the game.

The occasion, the brainchild of former sprinter Michael Johnson, gives prize cash considerably higher than what athletes obtain within the Diamond League.

TCS 10K Bengaluru International Event Ambassador and two-time Olympic gold medallist Dalilah Muhammad welcomed the arrival of the Grand Slam Track, stating that athletes are justified in pursuing monetary stability.

“It is basically useful. Athletes ought to be compensated for what they do. There are only a few athletes who’re actually making a residing simply from operating alone, and with the ability to maintain themselves over time.

“Some athletes can solely become profitable from meets such because the Diamond Leagues. So this can be very essential that occasions just like the Grand Slam Track give athletes extra alternatives. We do have the Diamond League, however that’s not sufficient and we want extra,” Dalilah mentioned in a media interplay right here on Thursday.

Dalilah, who received the 400m hurdles gold in Rio 2016, had a stellar yr in 2019 when she broke the 400m girls’s hurdles World file on the USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships with a time of 52.20s.

A few years later, Dalilah and Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone went head-to-head in a dramatic showdown on the Tokyo Olympics. Both Dalilah and McLaughlin-Levrone went beneath the World file, nevertheless it was the latter who claimed gold.

Lauds Neeraj’s feat

At Tokyo, Dalilah witnessed Neeraj Chopra clinch the boys’s javelin and turn out to be the primary Indian athlete to win an athletics gold medal.

“That was wonderful. I bear in mind watching Neeraj in Tokyo, and that was truly my first expertise watching him compete. It was truthfully phenomenal, and you bought to see what it meant for the nation, the neighborhood and the individuals,” Dalilah mentioned.