How refreshing! Someone who just acknowledges a Great Athlete and Run. Kudos to you. Everyone else, guess what, Femke wants to WIN TOO! Hats off to the American Athlete's for congratulating the Winners too. Pure Class! Way to go Ladies and Gentlemen. You made this American Proud.
I can understand the US keeping the same team that just broke the world record. How fresh are your legs anyway after only racing 400M the day before. I knew Femke was going to win when the other runners pulled away from her in the first 100M. Relays are all about even pacing and control from the start. She proved she is one of the best racers in the world right now. I wonder if it will be enough to beat one of the greatest runners in history in the 400M hurdles?
I can understand the US keeping the same team that just broke the world record. How fresh are your legs anyway after only racing 400M the day before. I knew Femke was going to win when the other runners pulled away from her in the first 100M. Relays are all about even pacing and control from the start. She proved she is one of the best racers in the world right now. I wonder if it will be enough to beat one of the greatest runners in history in the 400M hurdles?
So Femke is not on of the greatest in the history too?
quincy should have ran the prelim. not as much pressure and they still would have made it comfortably. better shot at gold and a wr with our third leg fresh.
And all these were said in 10 minutes. God I am American and cant stand the superiority complex scrambling when we lose to someone in something. Holding back in the heats is important. As we needed this to beat China in gold medals it was a massive blunder for American coaches to fail to use our massive talent pool to bring home the hardware.
Is it surprising we have bad relay coaches? Any decent coach could make the obvious calls but they can’t get it right.
The U.S. chose to NOT run their stars/A group. Many of the other countries did. If the Mixed 4x400 was a priority, they would have. The flip side is you have U.S. athletes that would have declined if they would have been asked to run it. Instead, choosing to focus on their open events.
Kudos to Netherlands on a great performance!
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Just for reference - GB / UK rested Matt Hudson Smith and Charlie Dobson - a potential 2 to 2.5 sec shift, so not just the USA not fielding their best talent
The U.S. chose to NOT run their stars/A group. Many of the other countries did. If the Mixed 4x400 was a priority, they would have. The flip side is you have U.S. athletes that would have declined if they would have been asked to run it. Instead, choosing to focus on their open events.
Kudos to Netherlands on a great performance!
When you're looking for an excuse just pick one, any one will do.
As many said, fresh legs would have been the difference. All the other countries subbed at least one person out and you could see how much closer they were today. Quincy should have run either yesterday or today.
I would have run Quincy in the prelims. And there was no need for the USA to run so hard in the prelim. I kept looking at them and thinking, what the hell are they doing. You simply cannot run a 400M that hard and come back next day with fresh legs. The LA build up takes several days to completely leave your system. And there was no freaking need for it. The coaches should have made sure of this!!
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