RT's are all over the place.
A guy I know personally who can run sub-7.00 in his sleep runs a laughable 7.33 with a .414 RT?
LERONE CLARKE fails to advance out of the heats and runs 7.05 with an even worse .420 RT?
WTF?
RT's are all over the place.
A guy I know personally who can run sub-7.00 in his sleep runs a laughable 7.33 with a .414 RT?
LERONE CLARKE fails to advance out of the heats and runs 7.05 with an even worse .420 RT?
WTF?
Did Lerone Clarke just pull a Nesta Carter Daegu?
And another guy who I have run against, who hugely underperformed, with a horrible 7.43, with a .402 RT????
Imagine going all the way to Turkey, just to miss the start of your race.
Having said that, it looks like the favorites, apart from Clarke, are advancing.
There was just the false start that wasn't, too.
Kimmons and Gatlin both advance.
Chambers also advances, and Bingtian Su has another blazing RT of .416
Gotta work, can't wait to finish up today and find out what the hell happened.
Ashton Eaton had a slow reaction, and he said that he didn't hear the gun.
How can this stand? They can't figure out what's wrong?
my athlete in Daegu couldnt hear the gun because his speaker didnt work... he reacted off of movement.
Something is definitely wrong.
Something is wrong with start area; there were problems is hurdles as well.
TrackCoach wrote:
Something is wrong with start area; there were problems is hurdles as well.
Same in the multis.
I've read they don't have working speakers on the blocks.
According to this article, it's from an echo and the officials aren't planning to do anything about it.
http://www.universalsports.com/news-blogs/article/newsid=582498.html
even on the grainy stream on my computer i saw individual starts that were dq's in other meets. is the constant music i heard being broadcast in the arena? if so, it's a distraction.
"aren't planning to do anything about it"
This type of inequitable and unjust attitude is becoming far too common--not just in T&F, but in all segments of many societies.
Don't the morons realize that the results are deprived of legitimacy? Why not just have the hurdles randomly change height in each lane, or the finish line randomly reposition itself in different lanes?
It has almost become a joke.
Fortunately, most of those expected to advance, have in fact advanced, so it is not a complete joke, yet.
They can salvage some legitimacy if they find a solution by the semi's and finals of the different events.
And what, they didn't know about this before?
WTF?
Track may no longer be amateur, but it sure is amateurish.
sprintgeezer, you got an email address?
I think there are two issues here.
1) Athletes not hearing the gun. You don't start late because of an echo.
2) An echo. It could be an echo but also it could be the speakers that are the electronic gun firing at different times.
In one of the 400 heats the athletes couldn't hear the starter. Does anyone know if the starter using the same speaker system for his commands as when the gun fires? Likely if he does then it would seem to not be working properly.
Kristi Castlin in the 60m hurdles should have kelp going even with the bad start problem that heat was slow enough were she still could have advanced.
In football you are taught that no matter what you think happend, to keep the play going until the ref blows the whisel.
TrackCoach wrote:
Kristi Castlin in the 60m hurdles should have kelp going even with the bad start problem that heat was slow enough were she still could have advanced.
In football you are taught that no matter what you think happend, to keep the play going until the ref blows the whisel.
Kristi is a nice girl, that was f*cked. Also in the hurdles its a different dynamic. You can't just stop easily mid race.
Sally Pearson, the 100-meter hurdles world champion, won her heat in 7.85 seconds, but she also thought there was a problem at the start.
"I thought someone had false started. 'Oh crap, that wasn't me, was it?'" Pearson said. "But the girl next to me was starting so I just kept going myself.
"They taught us back there, don't listen for the echo. Go for the first sound you hear," said American sprinter Justin Gatlin, who won his heat in 6.64 seconds. "There is a little bit of inexperience by coming up and saying there is a false start next to me. Your job is to run, not to be an official."
It's supposed to be that when you are "set" and you hear a sound (any sound), you go. It gets tricky with an echo as they have in Istanbul. The echo can sound like the recall pistol. If they DO call a false start and you don't stop, you won't be able to recover in time for the restarted sprint. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
It definitely sucked to be in the first couple of heats
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