She and her coach will wake up in the middle of the night thinking about this for the rest of their lives.
Agree. These coaches are suppose to be smarter than the dumb athletes and help them with their thinking for things like this in big situations. They aren't there to sabotage them.
As a high school coach - I never want to put an athlete in a situation where they could be embarrassed. Don’t want to over-seed a runner or advise them to run overly aggressive splits and then have them blow up. This heptathlon mishap is about as bad as it could get! I really feel for Hawkins!
As a college coach who actually coaches the high jump/combined events this is inexcusable. An athlete always may say, "hey coach I feel great today I am going to come in at 1.70m" and it is up to me to say, "hey I know you are going to do great today but with your PB being 1.72m lets come in at 1.65m just as a warm-up type attempt". I remember Hawkins from college competition and she was pretty arrogant in what she thought she could. do. But it is always up to the coach to get the athlete to see what they need to do in order to be successful. This situation just shouldn't have happened on the biggest stage in the world. And the worst part is she ran a great 100H to begin the competition which would have helped her tremendously. Sad situation but preventable.
The situation is different for Molly Caudery. 4.55 IS a safety jump for her. The only way she doesn't jump that is if she's completely off her rhythm (which in fact happened). I agree that Hawkins' strategy seems like a huge tactical mistake.
As a college coach who actually coaches the high jump/combined events this is inexcusable. An athlete always may say, "hey coach I feel great today I am going to come in at 1.70m" and it is up to me to say, "hey I know you are going to do great today but with your PB being 1.72m lets come in at 1.65m just as a warm-up type attempt". I remember Hawkins from college competition and she was pretty arrogant in what she thought she could. do. But it is always up to the coach to get the athlete to see what they need to do in order to be successful. This situation just shouldn't have happened on the biggest stage in the world. And the worst part is she ran a great 100H to begin the competition which would have helped her tremendously. Sad situation but preventable.
Thanks for the insight. I can believe the arrogance. Too much social media and YouTube videos going to her head.
As a college coach who actually coaches the high jump/combined events this is inexcusable. An athlete always may say, "hey coach I feel great today I am going to come in at 1.70m" and it is up to me to say, "hey I know you are going to do great today but with your PB being 1.72m lets come in at 1.65m just as a warm-up type attempt". I remember Hawkins from college competition and she was pretty arrogant in what she thought she could. do. But it is always up to the coach to get the athlete to see what they need to do in order to be successful. This situation just shouldn't have happened on the biggest stage in the world. And the worst part is she ran a great 100H to begin the competition which would have helped her tremendously. Sad situation but preventable.
Thanks for the insight. I can believe the arrogance. Too much social media and YouTube videos going to her head.
So you think you know her psychology and you have a theory of “too much social media”. I am an actual psychologist and don’t presume to know her like that. What I see is someone who trained very hard for many years to finally make an Olympic team at over 30 years old, and bring a lot of attention to the event and T and F, and possibly supplement her meager T&F income so that she could continue chasing her dream. Her posts actually try to be uplifting and helpful. She seems to be a kind person. If she was overconfident in selecting a starting height (and I don’t know if that’s the case), I’m definitely not calling it arrogant. I have a lot of respect for someone who trains that hard and that long to be an Olympian.
Shes what, 34, coached by Sheila Burrell, and her tiktok is only A skips and nothing of value. Cherry Hopkins is cooked, move aside and let the young generation have their turn
Great to see Chari Hawkins continued contesting in the heptathlon today - getting passed her no-height HJ - making the best of a very difficult situation! I’m sure the 30 family members and friends that traveled to Paris are very proud of her. Bravo Chari!
i'm usually pretty solid with spelling, but it was like 3am or something and i may have been slightly inebriated. wasn't intentional at all. would change it if i could but since this forum is built on technology predating jesus it's just not possible.
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