It looks to me like it’s clean. Barely. But why is it even close?
An even reasonably good high school coach wouldn’t have that many problem. It’s just math as to advising athletes when to take off. How can our relay coaches mess this up so bad year after year? The athletes change and the same mistakes happen.
Give me 60 minutes with any relay team and this never happens and they will have at least average handoffs. How can we not figure this out? Relay passes really aren’t that hard.
I will admit don't follow sprinting in depth but feel I have adequate knowledge. But who are these guys running third and fourth legs for the United States? Carne's & Smith?
Probably could thing of day...10-15 other dudes off the top of my head, and I don't know sprinting.
WTF?
Had the same reaction - tied for 14th this year in US with 10.02 while Carnes in 11th in 200 at 20.09. Kinda went deep into depth chart. Lindsey was in theory available, no?
That's why they have National Championships, brainiac. Carnes 4th in the 100 with 10.10, Smith 5th with 10.14.
It looks to me like it’s clean. Barely. But why is it even close?
An even reasonably good high school coach wouldn’t have that many problem. It’s just math as to advising athletes when to take off. How can our relay coaches mess this up so bad year after year? The athletes change and the same mistakes happen.
Give me 60 minutes with any relay team and this never happens and they will have at least average handoffs. How can we not figure this out? Relay passes really aren’t that hard.
My assumptions are that at this level, they are probably trying to get each athlete to run the exact distance they want them too, but I think it leads to over-coaching. In the prelims, just get the pass in the zone. Anyway just a guess. I don't really know
Last angle they showed made it look like she was just barely inside the zone
From my old eye perspective #3 had the baton in her hand before the yellow line. The question is does the runner handing off also have to their hand off of the baton?
If they don’t there I’d no violation. If they do it’s going to be close.
Obviously Lyles will be last. I wonder who will be 3rd. They could keep Carnes, he looks good there.
Noah should go 2nd bc they could utilize the second part of the race to the fullest. It's the longest leg.
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The whole back stretch is the longest leg thing a basically a myth. You would have to hand off at the very beginning and end of the zone and risk a DQ on either hand off. For virtually no gain at all. There is no measurable gain between Noah running an extra 5 meters or Christian running an extra 5 meters.
Had the same reaction - tied for 14th this year in US with 10.02 while Carnes in 11th in 200 at 20.09. Kinda went deep into depth chart. Lindsey was in theory available, no?
That's why they have National Championships, brainiac. Carnes 4th in the 100 with 10.10, Smith 5th with 10.14.
yea but it is not automatic - coaches decide right? Pass on a 9.89 guy who (also) ran 10.14 at US championship in favor of a 10.02 guy. Good enough, I guess as they got through.
It looks to me like it’s clean. Barely. But why is it even close?
An even reasonably good high school coach wouldn’t have that many problem. It’s just math as to advising athletes when to take off. How can our relay coaches mess this up so bad year after year? The athletes change and the same mistakes happen.
Give me 60 minutes with any relay team and this never happens and they will have at least average handoffs. How can we not figure this out? Relay passes really aren’t that hard.
My assumptions are that at this level, they are probably trying to get each athlete to run the exact distance they want them to, but I think it leads to over-coaching. In the prelims, just get the pass in the zone. Anyway just a guess. I don't really know
It’s just not that hard. It’s a numbers game, and you need maybe one session to practice to see if you need to adjust the takeoff time or steps slightly. Make sure your athletes understand where the zones are. Maybe slightly more practice to reinforce proper stick passing and receiving technique. But I’ve coached relays and run on some high-ish level relays and I promise it’s not that hard. It looks harder than it is.
Did Sanya say "Positioning is important because you don't want to be boxed in" and then immediately said "Nia Akins is doing a good job here to take the inside rail"? Nia ended up getting boxed in until she found space on the home stretch
Carnes is a fast, seasoned sprinter, a decent choice for relay heats.
Sprinter guy there were big problems at the women’s relay camp. Between who was the handoff?
Getting handoffs straight takes practice and discipline. JPN is often great at it. France practices underhand. USA doesn’t practice at all.
I agree it takes discipline but it really doesn’t take that much practice once you get the marks within a range of what is correct. Watching a lot of our teams, it seems some athletes don’t even know when they are supposed to be taking off. And it’s hard to explain that other than assuming thru just aren’t being coached