Danielle Carruthers: "We’re not trying to hold each other’s hands and make cupcakes"

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“We’re not friends and we’re not trying to hold each other’s hands and make cupcakes,” explains Danielle Carruthers, “And so when you get on the line, we don’t like each other. We respect one another, but we don’t like each other at that time. This is our job, this is what we do and we’re not trying to lose.”

The women’s 100-meter Hurdles is arguably track and field’s most competitive event and recent 2011 World Championship Silver Medalist, Danielle Carruthers knows it well now world ranked as the event’s second best sprint hurdler. “There’s a lot of history there; there’s a lot aggression there. There have been times that people have beat up on me in races and then I have beat up on them. You know that these people are talented but they’re also beatable,” states Carruthers who equates her event to “the new tennis . . . we grunt, we growl, over the hurdles; we talk to each other; you can see people hitting themselves and we take that up to the track . . . and when we run against each other, no one gives up. We are trying to get every little fraction of a second to win, because we know that’s what it takes to win.”

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