2023 Toyota USATF Outdoor Championships Official Day 1 Discussion Thread (+ live video show at 12 midnight ET)

I'm not sure anyone else will run 337

All meet long they were showing the cameraman from afar doing closeups of the athletes on the starting line…as if there was some privileged feed that was seeing their faces…

now they figured out the folks at home weren’t seeing the feed of the athletes’ faces?

Birnbaum’s Oly final…..

Poor Engels, what a hapless SOB.

Birnbaum is a beast. Hope craig made it

Nobdy from Heat 2 is making it to the final on time.

Birnbaum made that race

That was nervery for Kessler. Totally boxed decided to weave in on the inside. 7 guys off the turn and he's pinned on the inside. Goes out and then in.

Simeon got smoked LOL

Hobbs dodged the bullet. Terrible positioning. Lack of experience but luckily he got a nice opening at the end.

Hobbs looked terrible

He's still holding on. Everyone in heat 3 knows they HAVE TO run 3:37 at the very least to advance. Should be interesting.

Holy Birnbaum! taking the lead just before a lap to go. He may have missed the big Q, but this kid is the next big 1500 prospect.

He kinda got his baum birned

Does not bode well for the final. He put himself in a bad spot. Experience matters…..

Craig Engels does not advance to the Final.

Tactics still a weak spot for Hobbs

These announcers are so bad. the dude just said “all time qualifiers will come from 1st heat, Centro is the last guy in”, after the 2nd heat of 3!

The announcing is embarrassing. Whoever is announcing the field events needs to go. She sounds like she’s reading off a script and clearly doesn’t know anything about the events.