I feel like Cory doesn't do anything flashy leading into the trials, and likes to do races beforehand to come into form. Still a season best so still trending the right way. Do you think the experience will go longer at the trials or season bests?
Kersee has talked about his runners doing time trials in practice. So even though it looks like Sydney won't run another official 400H race before the Olympic Trials, she could be doing a 400H time trial in practice.
In any case, Sydney is now planning on doing the 400 and 400h double at the Olympic Trials, not just the 400h.
You can only really say that once both entries say "confirmed" - the 400 might change to scratched right before.
If you insist on being 100% accurate, then your statement isn't 100% accurate either. Kersee has pulled his athletes out of races at the last minute a number of times, so we don't really know what races Sydney will actually run until the gun goes off.
But the fact that Sydney has entered the 400 at the Trials shows that Kersee's insistence that she is ONLY going to enter the 400h at the Trials isn't correct.
Is Sydney running the 400 in NYC? I don't understand this strategy. Her hurdling is clearly rusty. Is Bobby hedging his bet to see what she runs in a 400M and if it is sub 49 enters her to run the 400 in Paris instead of the 400H? Would think she would use every opportunity to fine tune her hurdling technique.
Watch Bobby's interview on Citius Mag. He says they're focused on sprinting and staying healthy right now so he doesn't want her to exert herself over the 400 hurdles. He asked her to run 15 strides in her opener and treat it as a "practice run" but when you've been running 14s for a while, it's even harder to switch back to 15s smoothly. So it's probably not that her hurdling is rusty but just that the 15 stride pattern threw her off. Once she goes back to 14s, she'll be back to normal...and with the increased turnover and speed from running 200/400s, she should be faster than ever at the Olympics.
You are correct! I posted the same thing on another thread and got a bunch of downvotes from people who clearly don't understand the 400h.
If someone is used to doing 14 strides, doing 15 strides is challenging.
McGee is 200m away from being a 3:55 runner, what she is missing is the range.
Have you listened to McGee talk about her career? If you had, you'd know that she doesn't see not going under 4:00 as a bug; she sees it as a feature! In interviews, she says time and again that she is racing to win, not to run PRs. If she can't win, she doesn't care how she does. That is why in fast races McGee is near the front until the pack takes off, when she blows up and fades.
She is very explicit about her approach. After Worlds in 2022, she said, "I knew when I was doing it "You're not running for 5th right now."" She didn't see the point of sitting at the back of the chase pack so she could win "this second...this other race that's happening inside the race."
At this point, the only for McGee to run under 4:00 is for her to stop being Cory McGee.
PS Don't forget, she's 32 years old. Time for her fans to admit she is what her PRs say she is.
Boring discussion. 2021 was Covid. Spikes definitely different from before Covid. I don’t think it’s a sudden ‘talent boom’, but maybe you are correct.
interested to see how Bol stacks up to McLaughlin’s 52.7.
Superspikes emerged in 2019…I didn’t say sudden talent boom but it has happened over the last few years. Lost very few guys from the fold in 2021 (Centro, Souleiman, Filip), but gained Nordas, Nuguse, Mario, Reynold, Gourley, Laros, Habz and Nader. All at least pretty young.
Probably never - they have the travelling team doctor to monitor that. Contact in Stockholm just sent me a pic of him doing a post race workout on the warmup track. Running 1.43.3 is no biggie huh.
Juicing aside, he'll be hard to beat in Paris. Predicting 1:42 or faster for Gold. Arop will need to rise to another level if he wants the win.
Asides from your beautiful English names, you have the myth of arrogance living too.
All your previous champions were made by the power of money.
Yes, but the point is they emerged as contenders after Stewys heyday. The event went through a lull after it was very strong and deep in 2015. A lot of the formerly big names (Centro, Souleiman, Silas Kiplagat, Kiprop, Manangoi, Willis, Iguider, Makhloufi except for 2019) faded away or got busted after Rio. So you had some surprise medalists in Filip and Lewandowski. That was probably Stewys best chance (he wasn’t there yet) because by 2021, Kipsang and Kerr were in play and in 2022-present many new names and major improvements from Gourley, Habz, Wightman, Kerr, Giles.
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I don’t understand the thinking behind this take from rojo in his event summary of the women’s 400 hurdles:
“It’s worth noting that the other sprint times weren’t great tonight in Stockholm (more on that later). In the men’s 400h, Alison dos Santos ran .38 slower than his seasonal best that came earlier in the week. If you subtract .38 from Bol’s time today, you get 52.68, which is .01 faster than what SML ran in Atlanta on Friday.”
Well, he acknowledged these errors, for what it’s worth. The question now is if he will be a threat to Jakob in both the 1500 and 5000m in Euros (starting on Friday)..?
If you are talking about Wightman...He is not racing the European Championships.
I don’t understand the thinking behind this take from rojo in his event summary of the women’s 400 hurdles:
“It’s worth noting that the other sprint times weren’t great tonight in Stockholm (more on that later). In the men’s 400h, Alison dos Santos ran .38 slower than his seasonal best that came earlier in the week. If you subtract .38 from Bol’s time today, you get 52.68, which is .01 faster than what SML ran in Atlanta on Friday.”
He’s insinuating that SML’s Atlanta conditions were ideal and Bol’s weren’t. But he should be noting that positions 2-4 all ran faster in Stockholm than Oslo. The weather was also warmer in Stockholm. Dos Santos didn’t have much competition, which can lead to a slower time. SML similarly had no competition. You have to be a major spin doctor to think that SML isn’t way ahead right now especially doing 15/16 steps and Bobby confiding it was a practice run, and she wasn’t unleashed in it.
I don’t understand the thinking behind this take from rojo in his event summary of the women’s 400 hurdles:
“It’s worth noting that the other sprint times weren’t great tonight in Stockholm (more on that later). In the men’s 400h, Alison dos Santos ran .38 slower than his seasonal best that came earlier in the week. If you subtract .38 from Bol’s time today, you get 52.68, which is .01 faster than what SML ran in Atlanta on Friday.”
Nope, no sign of him. Great race overall tho as there were 10 all there at the bell.
Was okay from McSweyn, much better than Oslo 1500 but as we know he doesn't have the kick of the others even though he was there at the bell. Looks like he'll focus on 5000 this year and maybe for the foreseeable future
I just don't understand why McSweyn is still messing around with anything shorter than 5000m. He never had a kick to begin with, and his long covid seems to have sapped him of the power needed to go hard from the gun. He was at one point the Australian record holder at 10000m and he's done a handful of half marathons, so it seems like he could potentially be a far bigger factor at 10000m and up. I just really want to see him succeed and win a big race for a change, he competes with a lot of heart and clearly loves the sport.
While I watch the pole vaulting competition. I wonder why Duplantis is in a league of his own. No one has mastered pole vaulting as well as him and it seems his only competition is himself.
PS Don't forget, she's 32 years old. Time for her fans to admit she is what her PRs say she is.
Only two Americans have ever run their first sub-4 after age 30. Suzy Favor Hamilton did it on her 30th birthday and Regina Jacobs did it at age 39 (and tested positive for drugs a couple months later).
I don’t think Ethiopia is doing a W1500 Trials, but they can’t seriously take Haylom over Welteji or Freweyni Hailu in any circumstance. If Tsegay goes 5/10 I guess it’s a non-issue as the other candidates for spot #3 are equally challenged in anything but a drag race.
Haylom is a wildcard/gamble for sure. However, 3:53 this spring (and 14:23 5k) aint to shabby for this 18 year old. It seems to me Haylom is really attached to Tsegay and does well keying off of her. Sometimes seems off without that dynamic.
Haylom is a wildcard/gamble for sure. However, 3:53 this spring (and 14:23 5k) aint to shabby for this 18 year old. It seems to me Haylom is really attached to Tsegay and does well keying off of her. Sometimes seems off without that dynamic.
I don’t think she’s 18, but somewhat irrelevant to this. It seems to me most of all the less going on in a race the better she’ll do. If she’s able to follow and just hang on as long as she can (eg any race with Tsegay) she’s got a great engine. But in races with any tough decisions/tactics she struggles.