On April 8, Devon Allen signed a contract with the NFL team Philadelphia Eagles.
On Sunday night, he almost broke the world record in the 110-meter hurdles.
With 12.84, he placed third of all time.
Devon Allen was a very promising American football player when he started at the University of Oregon. However, a knee injury slowed down football and shifted the focus towards his sports career. Just before leaving school, he was fourth at the Olympic Games in Rio. This was followed by the same arrogant placement in Tokyo last year.
Ahead of this year’s season, the 27-year-old suddenly returned to American football. After an experience where he scored, among other things, 4.35 in the classic 40-yard Test, he signed a contract with Philadelphia Eagles Som wide receiver.
“I think I could be a real threat to my speed, if there’s one thing I can do it’s run,” he says in an interview with NBC.
“Two weeks with Covid”
But first he will complete another summer of athletics as he awaits the World Cup in his hometown of Oregon. The doubling seems to be good.
Late Sunday in New York, he got into a superhero race. With 1.6m/s in the back, the dominant Grant Holloway in recent years passed the last two hurdles to 12.84. Only four hundred of Ares Merritt’s world record and a personal record of 14 hundredths.
– I caught the virus and had to rest for two weeks so I had fresh legs! In my workouts I’ve felt like I’ve been on this for about six weeks, he says in Viaplay and continues:
All I needed was some new legs and then I could play soccer with the guys in Philly.
There was more fast racing in New York tonight. Alicia Johnson won the women’s short hurdles at 12.39 minutes, and Alia Hobbs won the sprint fencing against Shachary Richardson with 10.83 in the 100 metres. Then the last 200 meters won in 22.38.
But the second biggest event of the evening was Noah Lyle’s 200m win at 19.61. Time exceeded by only eight people, including himself.