A week ago, Grant Holloway’s expression said it all. As he spoke about entering the Diamond League in Xiamen, there was a visible storm of emotion behind his composed words. The reigning king of the 110m hurdles had just seen his long-standing winning streak snapped at the Tom Jones Memorial — and the man who did it was none other than his familiar rival, Trey Cunningham. “This season was to stay undefeated all the way throughout,” Holloway admitted candidly. “I fell a little bit short last week opening up at Tom Jones to Trey Cunningham who ran an awesome race, so in a little bit of the midst of adversity.” But while Holloway’s disappointment was clear, Cunningham remained unusually quiet. The typically soft-spoken hurdler didn’t gloat, didn’t boast. For two weeks, he let his performance speak louder than words. Then came May 3.
Today at the Grand Slam Track meet, Cunningham exploded across the line with a stunning 13.00 seconds — the second-fastest 110m hurdles time in the world this year. Only Cordell Tinch’s blazing 12.87 at the Shanghai Diamond League earlier in the day outpaced it. Just two weeks earlier, Cunningham had woken up the track world with a 13.09 world lead. Now, he’s making a habit of it. In Miami, he wasn’t handed anything. He had to battle Sasha Zoya — the Kingston Grand Slam champion and another rising threat in this year’s stacked hurdles lineup. But Cunningham held firm, hunting down the biggest names in the event, one by one. After the race, speaking to Tiara Williams, the 26-year-old finally peeled back the curtain.
“It’s been a hard two years to get back to where I was,” Cunningham said, emotion laced in every word. “And I think I’m finally getting back to my rhythm, getting back to where I was. And, you know, I’m just really coming out and focusing on my race because at the end of the season, we’ve got a world championship in September. And so these races are all about just wrapping up reps and figuring out what I need to get better at.”
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