(Un)Official Olympic Trials Day 7 Discussion Thread

Worried Kate grace won’t make it in the 8. Hope she proves me wrong just feel like the 15 would have been easier to make

lara_croft wrote:

Worried Kate grace won’t make it in the 8. Hope she proves me wrong just feel like the 15 would have been easier to make

800 is definitely Kate's best race. She can consistently run around 2:00-flat. There's just a lot more competition in the 800 in the US right now.

anony wrote:

Big Juicy Steak wrote:

Who is her latest victim...er, athlete?

Kendra Chambers. They mentioned her name on the broadcast.

Don’t forget roesler who is missing and probably retired now

[quote]lara_croft wrote:

Worried Kate grace won’t make it in the 8. Hope she proves me wrong just feel like the 15 would have been easier to make[/quote

There are probably 7-8 women vying for the three spots. Ajee Wilson, Mu, Rogers, Price, Southerland, Grace, Green look the most likely.

nhlgoalie wrote:

Hoping all of the Shelburrito stans flop hard in Tokyo.

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800 looks very interesting.

They'll probably run peak efforts from the semis on.

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habs wrote:

Wow that was a 4:38 last 1600m for Coburn over barriers. Her last 4 laps was faster than the average WR pace, 4:39/1600m. Crazy fast close when they picked it up

Agree. Are you considering that each lap is, I think, 390 meters?

yea i'm a dum‎basss, was counting last 4 laps not last 1600 meters. Still probably the fastest last SC mile by an American. also Liam BP said her last 1K was a 2:55:

So maybe fastest last 1K as well.

hl wrote:

800 looks very interesting.

They'll probably run peak efforts from the semis on.

They better. Or they'll be going home.

Not a big Kara fan but she is doing a good job considering it pretty new gig for her.

She is one of Emma's friends and still sounded positive for the other athletes.

Kara is better than some other announcers and can improve. But NBC cutting away from the distance racing, and leaving a little box to watch the race is concerning. It would be nice to note the pace for each lap and how fast they are picking up the pace. They also need to talk more about the competitors and not just about the one or two who are the top names. You watch the British or Canadian coverage of world championships or olympic games and the announcers, the interviewing are far superior.

I hope Kate Grace makes it. Been watching her race since high school.

hobbyjog7 wrote:

Cole Hocker and Courtney Frerichs have very similar faces

Yeah and Frerichs is a dead ringer for John Malkovich.

I’m sure this has been pointed out already.

trackgirlnut wrote:

Kara is better than some other announcers and can improve. But NBC cutting away from the distance racing, and leaving a little box to watch the race is concerning. It would be nice to note the pace for each lap and how fast they are picking up the pace. They also need to talk more about the competitors and not just about the one or two who are the top names. You watch the British or Canadian coverage of world championships or olympic games and the announcers, the interviewing are far superior.

I hope Kate Grace makes it. Been watching her race since high school.

Canadian coverage will show more (I.e. an international feed) but the play-by-play person still zones in on one or two prerace favourites or Canadians. And the “expert” (ex decathlete Michael Smith) is atrocious.

When we import Brits for commentary or analysis (Ovett, Morehead) it is night and day.

Shouts to Geoff Gowan, the colour guy in the 80’s to mid 90’s.

Them goes home DEVASTATED!! Again.

Someone make a day 8 discussion?

trackgirlnut wrote:

Kara is better than some other announcers and can improve. But NBC cutting away from the distance racing, and leaving a little box to watch the race is concerning. It would be nice to note the pace for each lap and how fast they are picking up the pace. They also need to talk more about the competitors and not just about the one or two who are the top names. You watch the British or Canadian coverage of world championships or olympic games and the announcers, the interviewing are far superior.

I hope Kate Grace makes it. Been watching her race since high school.

Yes, they do need to be more inclusive of the other competitors. Women’s steeple, for example, they only showed and talked about Coburn, Frerichs and Murphy. Not a peep about Falland who, objectively, would have been the favorite for the 3rd oly team spot.

Admittedly they can only feature so many but at the very least have the camera pan through the entire starting field so we know who’s in and in what lane they’re positioned.

Ps, why all the attention on Grayson Murphy?