They ran one at the IAAF World Relays and The Bahamas won by going with a Male-Female-Female-Male combination. Most teams went Male-Female-Male-Female.
Assuming that you could put them in any order, what would you do?
Is this an exciting event? Will we see more mixed relays in the future, perhaps even the next Olympics?
I don't know why anyone would have a female anchor. M-F-F-M is probably best.
I sometimes like to go slow to fast for relay order, but that only really works if your slowest person can keep you in contact against everyone else's leadoff. With a big gap between your fastest and slowest runners, it's probably best to do the standard 2, 3, 4, 1.
MFFM wrote:
I don't know why anyone would have a female anchor. M-F-F-M is probably best.
I sometimes like to go slow to fast for relay order, but that only really works if your slowest person can keep you in contact against everyone else's leadoff. With a big gap between your fastest and slowest runners, it's probably best to do the standard 2, 3, 4, 1.
We do not know what the rules are. If you can change the order shortly before the race that could make a BIG difference.
It might be a shock to the women if you went Male, Male, Female, Female!
I doubt it would work if you went FFMM in a short relay.
Exceptional Learners wrote:
MFFM wrote:I don't know why anyone would have a female anchor. M-F-F-M is probably best.
I sometimes like to go slow to fast for relay order, but that only really works if your slowest person can keep you in contact against everyone else's leadoff. With a big gap between your fastest and slowest runners, it's probably best to do the standard 2, 3, 4, 1.
We do not know what the rules are. If you can change the order shortly before the race that could make a BIG difference.
It might be a shock to the women if you went Male, Male, Female, Female!
I doubt it would work if you went FFMM in a short relay.
Have the fastest legs lead out so that the women don't have to deal with traffic, and so that it's harder for opponents to catch up mentally when there is such a big gap.
Exceptional Learners wrote:
They ran one at the IAAF World Relays and The Bahamas won by going with a Male-Female-Female-Male combination. Most teams went Male-Female-Male-Female.
Assuming that you could put them in any order, what would you do?
Is this an exciting event? Will we see more mixed relays in the future, perhaps even the next Olympics?
I guess no one watched the IAAF Relays.
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