More Craziness at World Indoors -US world leader - who had #2 time qualifier - is kicked out of 60m final

All big Qs no little qs in sprints.

She ran a carp first round and that put her at risk under the rules.

Anyone who follows the sprints knows seeding for the early rounds shapes the final rounds Anyone who does not advance by right (and with a first place) is at a disadvantage.

problem---

The quest for shorter meets , the three (ormore) semifinals format and relying on time as an advancing metric over place has caused this type scenario to playout too often.

Advance one more than medals offered from every round no time q

1/10,000 calls into question many other factors such as the length of the lanes measured etc. You can't go that fine.

Both girls ran the same time, so just one fastest q, that's just the way the cookie crumbles.

I know she was American, but she had an opportunity to qualify from her semi but didn't. If she was really the fastest she'd have been in the final. Not fourth in her heat.

Them the rules.

465 wrote:

OK, but who really cares about sprints?

These are people who were fast in 6th grade. Natural talent. Fast in the playground. Fast in football. Fast. They hardly train. They sit every chance they get, and when it's just XC the team GPA skyrockets. With the sprinters and jumper...plummets.

99% are out of the sport by 25. Fat by 35.

Get the picture?

DO you think distance running isn't also about natural talent? Really. Yes you have to work hard for it to show up but it wasn't about natural talent then Oregon would recruit 9:35 2 milers.

465 wrote:

OK, but who really cares about sprints?

These are people who were fast in 6th grade. Natural talent. Fast in the playground. Fast in football. Fast. They hardly train. They sit every chance they get, and when it's just XC the team GPA skyrockets. With the sprinters and jumper...plummets.

99% are out of the sport by 25. Fat by 35.

Get the picture?

Lol you’re a decent troll. The sprinters and jumpers might bring the team gpa down a notch but but distances require talent too. Any letsrun posters have examples of a 220 800 guy drop his time to 146? Or even 149.

Indoor running is a circus so it's only right and proper that they have the clowns to do the judging!

At least in the womens 400 semis the judges, along with their comic feet and red noses, were wearing their union jack hats!

(2 DQs advanced 2 Brits to the final!)

"...distances require talent too. Any letsrun posters have examples of a 220 800 guy drop his time to 146? Or even 149."

Jim Ryun?

Not a changer of thread titles wrote:

So this Oliver girl owned a highway that somebody stoled and now she can't run on it anymore? No wonder she didn't make the finals.

stoled?

stealed?

stolened?