US MISSES OUT ON THE 4x100 FINAL

OMG. Just read what the great Carl Lewis twitted, article on Yahoo What is going on? I agree with him.

mbai haule wrote:

Keep yapping. You forget that everyone is upping their game

And where is it written that it's only America that should win? Huuuh...!

Come on, the medals are not a preserve of America!

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At one point the USA 4x1 won 8 Olympic Gold medals in a row, from 1920-1956. They won 4 in a row from 64-76 (boycotted 1980) then won again in 84, 92 and 2000.

We still have very good sprinters, but they can't do exchanges. I see better exchanges at JV high school meets. People should be FIRED.

You cannot have a horrible pass in the 4 x 1. A 10 flat open 100 guy will run a 9.0 if he receves the baton at full speed. A 10.0 open guy who receives it at half speed will run 10.0. 1 sec difference. The fact they missed by .2 means speed was not the problem.

A whole lot of politics goes on in who runs the relay and what legs they run. Not only you're dealing with Olympic coaches you're dealing with personal coaches and agents. SAD

True and putting someone who isn’t’ the a coach, Wallace Spearmon, as relay coach explains why the US is imploding in relays. Political move using a bad title meet relay athlete to lead and have agents/personal coaches dictate. US 4x4 also playing games and may backfire. Women will be lucky to take 3rd in 4x1.

nugese3:35.96 wrote:

Honestly US men's sprints have been a bit of a letdown in Tokyo, no golds and our favorites did less than we expected. Like Noah getting bronze, Grant getting second, Bromell not even making the final. Probably won't end up with a gold in the 400m, 4x1 failing to make the final, mixed 4x4 putting a b team that got 3rd, just waiting for the mens 4x4 to slip up.

Thank you for being honest

Gwalkerruns wrote:

You cannot have a horrible pass in the 4 x 1. A 10 flat open 100 guy will run a 9.0 if he receves the baton at full speed. A 10.0 open guy who receives it at half speed will run 10.0. 1 sec difference. The fact they missed by .2 means speed was not the problem.

It appeared that speed was the problem for the anchor leg. He gave up several spots well after the exchange.

Exactly right. Other countries have always tried in sprinting and 4 x 100. This is not like some new sport that the rest of the world starting taking seriously in the past decade. The U.S. is just getting worse.

Get the coach of the Texas or Louisiana or Florida state 4 x 100 champions and put them in charge of the relay.

Exactly right. Other countries have always tried in sprinting and 4 x 100. This is not like some new sport that the rest of the world starting taking seriously in the past decade. The U.S. is just getting worse.

Get the coach of the Texas or Louisiana or Florida state 4 x 100 champions and put them in charge of the relay.

Let's celebrate! At least we got the baton around without dropping it!

There are lots of excuses and reasons for what things can go wrong. All of them happened today. It was an embarrasment for team USA. USATF spent a nice amount of development $$$ for relay camps. This result and the 4x400 mixed relay do not show any ROI.

Food for thought: there are a lot less scholarships at the NCAA level for men that 20 years ago. It is not going to get better at olympic sports without the money. Other countries will outperform us.

Do these guys even practice together before the Olympics? China and Japan have their guys going off to a training camp working on stick work.

Back in the day the USSR and East Germany had the 2nd and 3rd best teams and less Borzov and Eugene Ray never had truly elite sprinters but they were practicing in training camps leading up to the Olympics.

I don’t even know who Gillespie is. Whoever put there relate team together is a real dipstick. You don’t need to save legs for the 4x100. Stick with the four fastest every round and the fastest as four anchor. They put their slowest as the anchor leg and it showed. He had to have run the slowest anchor leg split. Stop being cute trying to flex your superiority with the backups. Oh well, doesn’t matter now.

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Bye bye America

It wasn't such a bad performance. They did beat Denmark, the famous sprinting powerhouse, by 0.06 seconds.

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Bye bye America

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There were so many smug comments about the Poles winning gold in the mixed 400 relay, "It's a B race" "we didn't send our best athletes to race a race no one cares about" "The Poles just wanted it more" Well at least the US got in the final on that, even with their "b" team. It's quite something to see when the US really wants to step up to the race, that's when the real meltdown happens.

Respect your rivals, learn from them, stay humble, stay hungry. Arrogance gets you nowhere.

What's this talk about running their B team. They had 3 of the fastest men on the planet runing. Ryan Crouser could have anchored and they still should have qualified.

They need to change rhings. Make relay camps and relay training sessions a requirement for representing USA.

Gillespie did run bad but he got the baton in 6th or 7th. he tried to run the fastest first 50m he could to catch up but it screwed up his finish. yes he is partly to blame but the biggest mistakes came earlier. But I agree you shouldn't put your worst as the anchor.

Where was Lyles, Micah Williams, etc.................ridiculous putting Gillispie on the anchor.....they ran past him like he was a high schooler......10 more meters and we would have been last.........

Really unacceptable performance by USATF: