Under the camouflage net (above) of a WW II war plant. Writing a book is like an Olympic event, everything you have is put into it.  The Paris Olympics, summer of 2024, was an ambience in life that captured numerous moments.  Athletes of diverse backgrounds and many faiths competed, and many were young people unafraid to profess they're athletes of faith. Events can be engaging.  Genuine gifted athletes go against adversaries of the mind as well as the body, and the road to final accomplishment is composed of many moments that trigger either victory or defeat.  I remember the feeling in my college days, and you must have a fine tuned body to reach any final stage.  The same principle is applied to the creation of a book, from concept to formation, to go in battle against adversaries of the mind but fine tuning the subject til it shines.  My educational prism in the nonfiction genre, involved hard research, still does, and after all the weight of hard work is lifted, maybe a gold medal, as in the same feeling of a fine tuned body achieving a Gold Medal in a strenuous athletic endeavor, with the help of God, can be attainable.  I think an athlete who does not forget the words of faith and trust in God is important.  Among the many Olympians, Sydney McLaughlin fits into that camp, who after her marriage in 2022 became Mrs. Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone.  An athlete just does not go fast, one has to control his/her pace.  The Penn Relays are for her & anyone on the East Coast circuit are important, courtesy of Robbie Sabbakhan.   Each event is engaging, and maybe in the final endeavor, a gold medal is reachable. Sydney after the U.S. Track and Field Finals, stated, "The mental strain of preparing...in order to solidify your spot is heavy enough.  But the amount of weight the Lord took off my shoulders, is the reason I could run so freely yesterday.  My faith was being  tested.... I just kept hearing God say, 'Just focus on me.'"  You have to have faith in God, in yourself, and the gift God gave you.   As author from the California coast, I remember my track coach telling us how important those Penn Relays are in the East—Coach Greg Ryan was from New Jersey.   Here Ms McLaughlin gets a surprise visit from Allyson Felix. Sydney ran at Union Catholic High school, NJ; but the season of plenty was not over—summer of 2022, this young lady set a world record against the best at the World Athletics Championship at Eugene, OR, on July 22, 2022 (her 4th world record in 13 months).  On NBC, she related she was not alone; she had external help, from God.  She told a national audience, “He really gave me the strength.”  And, really began, “I have to start off by saying all the glory to God.  These past few days just getting ready for this race; Hebrew 4:16 … he really gave me the strength to do it  today….I wanted to go execute,” and was honest telling you, “and the last 100 hurt really bad, but I went for it and am grateful for it.”  She ran an astounding 50.68 over hurdles in the 400M, comparable to a quarter mile.  In life, without God there is little control.  Sydney is firmly rooted in Faith, living a life among the best of the runners but with a trust that the Father will always give us what we need.   Life does not always hand us ace cards, but when we falter, God through the Holy Spirit provides us with healing graces. “I thank you, Lord, with all my heart; in the presence of the angels to you I sing” begins Psalm 138.   She was given the gifts and strength through the Holy Spirit.  The struggle is never nominal when one begins, however, God will always give us what we need. How many times had the New Jersey girl called unto Him, and He answered the prayers.  (courtesy of above 4 videos, CBN News, Robbie, EWTN, and Gatorade Player of the Year).   Pinnacle for Sydney was the exciting Gold medal at the Paris Olympics on August 8, where she was blessed with a World and Olympic record (courtesy of NBC.)  For 2025, she changed her training tactics and shifted to the 400.  In Tokyo, Japan, at the World Athletics Championships, on September 18 she ran not only against the 3 fastest opponents still competing, but on a slick rainy track. There were 8 in the race. They were all even at the halfway mark, with Sydney pitted against two career 400 arch-rivals, who like Sydney were in top form, Marileidy Paulino and Salwa Naser (3rd fastest woman of all time), women who had won Gold and Silver in Paris, respectively.  With 120 to go, Sydney and the defending world champ Paulino began to break away.  About  25 meters to go tough Dominican Republic Paulino and Sydney were neck in neck, then Sydney outfought her in the final dash and for good measure leaned at the tape, and won at 47.78  seconds--a gold but, what is historic, is her performance, marked for the first time in nearly 40 years that a woman had run the 400 meters in under 48 seconds a hair's breath of the East German runner Marita Koch.  Marita's record of 47.60 has stood since Oct 6, 1985.  The oldest women's track record on the planet. Paulino ran 47.98.  You had 50,000 people in the stands, undaunted by the rain.  Had it not been raining, I bet Sydney would have broken it.  Sydney said, "I had faith in my training."  She has always been open about her faith and spirituality.  All her school mates and Sister Percylee Hart, principal of Union Catholic, I bet were watching her and they, as well as the nation, should be extremely proud of Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone.