The Warm Up Track 2025: Sam Kendricks – A lost Olympics and Making Peace with Tokyo

Awaiting the start of the Tokyo 2021 Olympic Games, Sam Kendricks had just been at the USA Track and Field team meeting and posed for the team photograph when he received a notification which said his name in English and, alongside it, one word: POSITIVE. In that moment, everything changed. The reigning world champion and Rio Olympic bronze medallist would play no further part in the Tokyo…