Dutch track coach is an idiot

zwerp wrote:

Bob Sack wrote:

Bol covers up a lot of issues with the Dutch 4x400 team. Among them, you never know what you are going to get out of Klaver race-to-race. She is a top 6-7 400 meter runner int he world; however, she can get her pacing spectacularly wrong and be barely moving by the end of her leg, which is exactly what she did in the mixed 4x400 at Euros. Additionally, De Witte is not close to being the Euro bronze medalist like she was in 2018 when she ran 50.77 and is pretty much just a 52-high runner right now. She used to be a really good #3 on that relay and now would have no business being on the team of any other top country (US, DR, Ireland, Belgium, UK, Poland).

This would have been correct last year but this season de Witte has run 52.17, and was the fastest 3rd leg of all countries yesterday with 50.41. She's no Bol or Klaver but has clawed herself back into the relay over Saalberg.

Ultimately you're right though, Bol carries the team a lot with her amazing chasing potential. But this is a lr than the decades before Bol or Klaver when the Netherlands was lucky to qualify for a tournament in the first place. We just don't have the depth that bigger T&F countries do, and are blessed to have a couple of amazing runners in the first place.

wiederganger wrote:

@ The Unknown Sprint Coach wrote:

Nope, no excuse needed, but you had one ready just in case. There were no brilliant tactics by Meuwly and the race played out as it should have based on SB's + PB's. That is a fact. Bol didn't "literally jog for 300m." That's a patently stupid statement. She ran as hard as she felt that she needed to in order to keep something in reserve.
Now you're running away from your assertion that the Irish "peaked" for this meet. There was no mis-interpretation of your statement and you've actually reasserted it without basis. While I know quite a bit about what Meuwly does, you don't know anything about the methods that the Irish coaches (4 different guys, BTW) use. From speaking with one of them I know that his athlete didn't take this meet anymore seriously than your Dutch girls did. The Irish women are qualified for Paris and that's their focus.
LOL, you clearly don't know much about coaching or training, nor did you bother to look at Adeleke's season thus far. Your attempt to gaslight wasn't even close to being successful. Anyone can review her season to date can see that her focus has been on being ready for Paris and she has said as much in interviews. She flew in relatively late for the meet and the fatigue was apparent yesterday. Coach Floreal knows what he's doing.
Here's a question for you, why is it that the Dutch male 400m runners continue to underperform so badly? Don't give me Meuwly's excuse that men's competition is tougher than women's. There's no basis for that statement and the fact that Belgian men (again coached by multiple people) clean your clock without the millions of Euros that the Dutch Federation proves it.

Look at you, getting all prickly! LOL. You sound extremely venomous towards the Dutch team, you must either be Irish, a gypsy traveler, or from one of the Dutch colonies.

I also know quite a bit about Meuwly's methods too, and I also know exactly what Adeleke's season has looked so far. I have this thing call the internet, it's freakin' amazing!

I know Floreal's a great coach. Didn't he meet his wife just after she returned from a 14 month doping ban for furosemide? Shame that, but how very open minded of him. And he's done wonders for some of his athletes. Alfred's muscle mass....wow...