USOT Discussion Day 1 - Women's 1500, 400, 100, 5000; Men's 400, 800, 10000

trollin' along wrote:

habs wrote:

a "false" false start in heat 3. hope the officials aren't going to continue to create issues like this

Did someone actually move? I have started meets using FAT and once in a while the timer doesn't start and the timer guy beside you immediately tells you to call it back. I don't know if this is what happened or not.

that may have happened, official said "no false start" a few seconds after calling everyone back

Already sick of the Alison Felix talk. ugh.

But not my BYU girls. They’re through. Diljeet is the best college coach in America.

I'M SO EXCITED FOR ALLYSON FELIX THE TIMES MAGAZINE MOST LEGENDARY WOMEN EVER LOOK AT HOW AMAZING SHE LOOKED DOMINATING THAT PRELIMINARY HEAT

FastTuohy wrote:

Rastus wrote:

Did anyone go home devastated in those heats?

Many of the college athletes.

There were only 2 collegians who went home devastated.

Rastus wrote:

FastTuohy wrote:

Many of the college athletes.

There were only 2 collegians who went home devastated.

ah, I missed that Tyynismaa made it. So, several of the college athletes (running well off the college best to miss)

BYURun4Her wrote:

But not my BYU girls. They’re through. Diljeet is the best college coach in America.

and JJ Clark/Stanford is right with her . . .

Rockgip wrote:

I'll never understand the point of the first round of the 1500. At most, only six runners were going to be eliminated today. And when you factor in two DNFs, only four runners were eliminated. Seems like USATF should let more runners compete or else just dispense with the silliness of the first round.

If the Olympics are 3 rounds, they should probably do three rounds here to mirror the race conditions. My uniformed guess is that they don’t really want to eliminate many in round 1, they just want to make them run three times.

Looks like Francena McCorory is out, as #4-6 in first heat + #4 in her heat ran faster and there are only 4 time qualifiers.

FastTuohy wrote:

Rastus wrote:

There were only 2 collegians who went home devastated.

ah, I missed that Tyynismaa made it. So, several of the college athletes (running well off the college best to miss)

?? 5 of the 7 collegians made the next round. Including 2 each from BYU and Stanford.

Rooting against Megan Rapinoe

Rooting for FarmersOnly.com girl

BYURun4Her wrote:

But not my BYU girls. They’re through. Diljeet is the best college coach in America.

Please leave this website and never come back.

oldschoollrc wrote:

Already sick of the Alison Felix talk. ugh.

Apparently she has a daughter

They didn't even mention Anderson...racists.

Courtney Okolo gets 4th and just barely missed the time q by one spot. I think the biggest name out of the w400 so far

Wow. Talk about racist. Completely blew off Anderson. And then they interview the girl she beat.

Man NBC really likes to choose a story before a heat, focus only on that athlete, and then even interview them regardless of their result postrace

I like Diggs and she has a legendary family, but NBC is fairly transparent in this

Looks like a 30 minute break in track action. Time to take a shower. I’ve been doing a circuit while watching the events. Pretending I’m as fast as the slowest women.

Ostrich wrote:

With Houlihan out Jenny is definitely the favorite to with the Trials.

Maybe you spoke too soon. That looked like a walk in the park for Purrier.