The axiom that what's important isn't how you start, it's how you finish hasn't always held true with 100-meter hurdler Tobi Amusan.
The last two times the UTEP alum and El Pasoan has competed in a championship year — 2019 at the World Championships in Doha, Qatar and the 2021 Olympics in Beijing — Amusan was at her best at the tail end of the season, a month past the race on the big stage.
In both of those seasons, the Nigerian was a close fourth at the Worlds and then Olympics, only to close her year with Diamond League wins, performances that would have put her on a podium in Doha or Beijing.