Prior to the 2011 IAAF World Championships in Daegu, Korea this past August, at least one American athlete had secured a top three podium position at either the World Championships or Olympics in all but six of the thirty-seven executions of the Men’s 400-meter Hurdles final races in the last 111 years.  Moreover, that number most assuredly would have been reduced to five had a 1980 U.S. Boycott of the Moscow Games not prevented an at the time unbeaten Edwin Moses from winning what would then have amounted to his second Olympic Gold Medal which he subsequently achieved at 1984 Summer Games in Los Angeles.