Anna Hall; WHAT DID YOU JUST DO?

Sometimes I think you people just make this stuff up because you are bored. Did you watch her throws? She literally threw the next one in the same spot, past the 45 meter mark (45.99), which was a new PB. Yes what she did was stupid, and it "might" have been an issue, but it didn't cost her anything since she replicated it on the next throw.

And....

To those that say she lost it in the hurdles, well, she ran 13.36 for 1071 points, had she run her PR of 12.75, she would have received 1162 points (+91) so she would have finished with 6,706 instead of 6,615, which would have moved her to 4th, but she still would have been 1 point shy of Vidts for bronze who had 6.707. Anna Hall just got beat. The End.

I know. NBC treated 5th like a Twin Towers tragedy. All this "if only she had....". No mention of all the OTHER competitors "if only's". She was 5th best...period. Better luck next time.

I said hurdles AND long jump lost it for her, which is true. 12.75 vs. 13.36 is a pretty significant difference, and then the long jump was 5.93 meters (983 pts) vs. a PB of 6.54 meters (1117 pts). She would have easily gotten bronze with anything near her best in hurdles and long jump, although silver may have been a stretch and gold was out of the question with how good Thiam was.

After winning two medals at the world championships, I really wanted to see her get a medal at the Olympics. I hope she gets enough time off to get her knee 100% healthy and she can come back at LA.

She is one of my top 3 Olympic crushes from Paris even though that one segment with her was cringe. Her sister seems really cool too.

Wasn’t focused. Stop thinking about the fans and concentrate. Just my opinion but I could be wrong

I like Anna but I wish that there was more spotlight given to Thiam (3x Olympic gold medalist!) and KJT. They've accomplished a lot more than Anna on a global level.

Oh, so if only she did better at hurdles and long jump and jav...

That's called getting beat.

I thought this was going to be about her odd Emily in Paris promo

She performed exactly the way she has all this spring and summer - look at her results. She had a long way back from surgery and has not been the same as last year. Hopefully with additional work she can get back there. Her hurdles and LJ seems to have been particularly effected, I don’t think she has gone much under 13.3 all year, even when doing just that event.

No, it’s the two events that force her to explode off her injured knee (she takes off with the other leg in the high jump), and, therefore, she was nowhere near her best. If you don’t remember, she had major knee surgery in January. She’s at like 80%. Valiant effort, but, yes, she did get beat.

It’s rookie stuff. She’s beautiful but what a dumb move.

maybe next time for Hall.

The distance she would've neede to beat the women ahead of her:
59.634m 1 Nafissatou Thiam
57.789m 2 Katarina Johnson-Thompson
50.742m 3 Noor Vidts
47.229m 4 Annik Kälin

Her personal best that she later set was 45.99m, so all of these theoretical throws were out of her range.

Ummm, the US has a pretty solid history in the multi's and many other medalists not of American nationality have trained in the US system. I think you're overreacting to one games. On the men's side there are many athletes that would have been talented athletes in the Decathlon that instead go to other sports like the NFL. There is a lot more sport choice in the US.

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If you watch the replay of the Heptathlon javelin competition on Peacock, her reaction is priceless. As she walks over to her coach, she has a big smile on her face and says, "I usually have room to do that. Sorry!"

Anna Hall does not let anything affect her. If she misses in the high jump, she just smiles and walks off the mat. She just seems to have so much fun doing what she is doing.

She should have, KJT will be devasted she didn't win Gold. She will be really regretting the long jump.

I was disappointed Trey Hardee and NBC presented it that way. They wanted to leave impression she lost a vast amount of distance and points. Meanwhile anybody who watched the competition knew that her second throw was identical

Thanks to the people here who pointed out her next throw. I only saw it on NBC Primetime and at the end of the competition I was trying to figure out how many points she lost because of the foolish error. Well, it was basically none but NBC didn't care to show or tell us about her making it up in the following throw.

I think NBC has a history of creatively editing to tell the story they want. In Olympiads past this worked well because there weren't several channels and 24/7 viewing available. But I guess it still works because most of us can't watch all day long so rely on the primetime show.