I got Ajee for gold with a new record.
I got Ajee for gold with a new record.
I don't see it. Semenya is as close to upset-proof as possible in these championships. It would probably require some type of stumble or poor racing luck. Semenya screws around in run of the mill races but she allows greater margin of victory in championship runs.
Regardless, very good job from Wilson and Lipsey in the semifinals, taking their coach's advice of going to the lead.
I felt bad for Brenda Martinez that she got stuck in a semi with two of the three dominant forces in this event. That shouldn't be allowed to happen. I assumed each semi would feature one of them. Somebody should have pushed the pace to allow both time qualifiers from the race but nobody did which meant Brenda needed 1-2 or nothing. It ended up nothing but I was impressed with Brenda's effort. She fell shy of Wambui by only a foot or so.
"Somebody should have pushed the pace to allow both time qualifiers from the race but nobody did"
Why didn't Martinez do it then? Same with the Brit in the third semi; finish fourth, a shade under 2:00 and you are in the final. So why allow the race to be the slowest of the semis at 400 when you have no realistic chance of finishing in the first two? Someone please explain this to me!
When was America a "distance power"?
CASTER, NIYONSABA, WAMBUI FTW!!
GO GIRRRRRLS! wrote:
CASTER, NIYONSABA, WAMBUI FTW!!
Unfortunately, this. Wilson will be robbed the way Bishop & company were robbed last year. How much longer will this farce be allowed to go on?
Give to freaks some stuff, clean the Planet, Adolf
Semenya is the modern day Hitler and her supporters are the Nazi army.
exthrower wrote:
She was spotted at a steakhouse eating a 2 pound porterhouse. With oxtail soup for desert.
Wow - now she'll win clearly!
WR, if she also had ostrich!!
Why didn't Martinez do that? Because that is not how she races best, and she barely made it in the heat when she tried to lead the whole race.
Savinova did beat Semenya, so it is quite possible with a good enough preparation. However, winning tomorrow is improbable since Wilson has already used her get-out-of-ban card and can't get too funky.
The 800 is not a distance event.
Martinez didn't know the times from the other heats, plus she was hoping to get bumped in as fastest woman in her heat.
Barabbas wrote:
GO GIRRRRRLS! wrote:CASTER, NIYONSABA, WAMBUI FTW!!
Unfortunately, this. Wilson will be robbed the way Bishop & company were robbed last year. How much longer will this farce be allowed to go on?
Dont see Semenya going down, she'd really have to be burnt from the 1500 for that to happen. But some of these 100% ladies are running really well, I could see the holy trinity being busted up.
Terger wrote:
The 800 is not a distance event.
Sprinters think it is.
LET THE POWER OF THE BEEF RULE THE WORLDS!!!
That would be really nice. Only happens if it is really fast from the gun and Semenya has a little lingering fatigue from all the races this past week. Wilson will have to run 1:54-1:55.
Brenda ran great, it's a shame the this event is so compromised. re: Ajee, I think she has a good chance, Semenya's legs may be a little tired from the 3*1500's.
I'll take jc wrote:
Barabbas wrote:Unfortunately, this. Wilson will be robbed the way Bishop & company were robbed last year. How much longer will this farce be allowed to go on?
Dont see Semenya going down, she'd really have to be burnt from the 1500 for that to happen. But some of these 100% ladies are running really well, I could see the holy trinity being busted up.
Yeah, I don't see Semenya losing. She hates like a man.
Barkalounger wrote:
Martinez didn't know the times from the other heats, plus she was hoping to get bumped in as fastest woman in her heat.
She most certainly did.