Sprintgeezer wrote:
This thread is waaaaaayyyyy premature.
The great thing about sprints, that you distance guys don't seem to get, is that anybody can win on any given day, anybody can get injured on any given day, there is no predictable season trajectory like in distance, etc.
You train to try to get some sort of a rational trajectory, but you get derailed by all sorts of things. Clean 100/200 athletes are always on the brink of disaster, you hope to toe the line but never cross it. One of a coach's main duties is to keep athletes reined in, to pull them back from that line, to try to maintain some smoothness to the season. Championship coaches have an easier time of this, which is why you see championship sprinters doing very well relative to their peers--because the noise and irregularity and psychological disturbance of competition is avoided.
Among the guys, nobody like that really comes to mind right now. Among the women, of course it would be the Jamaicans.
Let's see Lyles put up some outdoor results, let's see his proposed schedule, etc before trying to guess what he will be able to do.
IMO this should be the season of Lyles-Tebogo-Seville, and just maybe some other Americans like Bromell, Kerley, etc. mixed in for spice.
Granted Jacobs was a huge shock in 2021 but usually like in the distances the guy in the best form wins.
The whole point in this exercise is to guess now when there is some uncertainty.
2 golds. 9.79, 19.32. Dropped stick in 4x1