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Demus To Be Awarded Gold Medal By IOC At First-Ever Games’ Reallocation Ceremony

LOS ANGELES, May 29, 2024 — 4,384 Days. It’s been a long wait. A long fight to right a wrong. When the gold medal is placed around her neck in Champions Park at the Olympic Games Paris 2024 beneath the backdrop of the Eiffel Tower on August 9th – U.S. Olympian Lashinda Demus will finally kiss her medal as the champion of the 400-meter hurdles race from the Olympic Games London 2012. This will be the first-ever medal reallocation ceremony held at a Summer Olympic Games.

Since accepting the silver medal at the London Olympic Games, Demus has fought for the gold medal that was rightfully hers. “This broke my heart as I knew I was the best runner in the race,” Demus stated. “Once I get to Paris, for the Olympic Medal Ceremony, my broken heart will finally be healed.”

The gold medalist was disqualified for doping, making Demus the first-ever American to win the 400m hurdles. Demus’ journey and her fight is a testament to her indomitable spirit. Since then, the married mother of four has worked

Lashinda Demus: 'I love having boys'

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      A native of southern California, track star Lashinda Demus won the 2011 world title in the 400-meter hurdles in American-record time. She had won silver in that event at the world championships in 2005 and 2009.

Lashinda Demus will be blogging for espnW in the lead-up to this summer's Olympics. Check back in April for more on her journey to London.

Young children don't understand world championships, Olympics, American records, or any of the statistical minutiae that track and field aficionados like to geek out on. My 4-year-old twin sons, Dontay and Duaine, have a much simpler way of looking at the sport: Did Mom win or lose?

More often than not lately, I've been able to tell them, "Mommy won!" I'm coming off the most successful season of my career. Last September, I won my first-ever individual world title at the world championships in Daegu, South Korea. In the process, I broke the 16-year-old American record in my event, the 400-meter hurdles. The title was a bigger deal to

July 1, 2009

LOS ANGELES – This past weekend Lashinda Demus (LD) won the USA Championship 400m hurdle title, posting the world’s best time, after falling from the spotlight a year ago when she failed to make 2008 USA Olympic team by finishing fourth. Demus talks below about her race at USAs, what she likes to talk about prior to the race, who the other three Gamecocks are on the USA World team, her favorite hurdle and of course the two little men who surprised her by changing her life forever: her two-year-old twins: Duaine and Dontay.

Find her fan page on Facebook.com at: Lashinda Demus’ Road to Gold: London 2012 and on Twitter.com@LashindaDemus.

A lot has changed with you in the last year and we’ll talk about that, but let’s talk about this past weekend first. Right now you stand on top of the 400m hurdles world with the two fastest times in the world; and you just added a USA title to your hardware. You lived in Columbia for seven years, attending University of South Carolina before turning professional when you made the Olympic team in 2004,

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