Heard the entries had some sort of issue and the US is having to fight to be included in the mixed 4x4. World Athletics fears repeat of Paris where US won 34 medals and looking to stop US at every turn.
Is this just speculation, or is there any confirmed info about why there's no US in the mixed 4x4?
Any updates on why the USA didn't have a team in the mixed 4x4? Was it an administrative error on the part of the USATF paid staff or coaches?
women's 5000 winner lapped 5th-16th place, looks like she lapped the last two finishers twice
Probably didn’t lap anyone twice, unless Macchia ran sub-16 pace for the last 800 of her 17:12. I’m guessing she didn’t. Second-to-last girl would have run 14:20 pace for the last 800 if she was lapped twice. Math.
women's 5000 winner lapped 5th-16th place, looks like she lapped the last two finishers twice
Probably didn’t lap anyone twice, unless Macchia ran sub-16 pace for the last 800 of her 17:12. I’m guessing she didn’t. Second-to-last girl would have run 14:20 pace for the last 800 if she was lapped twice. Math.
Nobody was lapped twice. The commentator Geoff Wightman expected the Peruvian girl to be lapped twice but she ran aggressively early and did a nice job with a personal best and not finishing last.
Eisa could have gone faster but she helped her teammate for most of the race as they exchanged the lead.
Probably didn’t lap anyone twice, unless Macchia ran sub-16 pace for the last 800 of her 17:12. I’m guessing she didn’t. Second-to-last girl would have run 14:20 pace for the last 800 if she was lapped twice. Math.
Nobody was lapped twice. The commentator Geoff Wightman expected the Peruvian girl to be lapped twice but she ran aggressively early and did a nice job with a personal best and not finishing last.
Eisa could have gone faster but she helped her teammate for most of the race as they exchanged the lead.
appreciate both the responses here, and glad to hear nobody got lapped twice as that would be pretty rough to deal with in a 5000
Pretty simple. USATF admin failed to enter a mixed 4x4 3 weeks ago when the entry deadline passed. Someone realized it and lobbied WA all the way until an hour before the event start and WA wouldn't allow a late entry. What also needs explaining is why the USATF coaches had the athletes warmup as if they would compete and told them it was being corrected when clearly this is not an oversight of human error. Frustrating incompetence at the national office of USATF certainly and there should be a shakeup in the positions that allowed this oversight to occur and ok'd having US coaches warmup athletes and having them prepare for a race they would not be permitted to participate in.
I’d bet on him to win, but the top 4 are all sub-13:10 type guys.
Yeah in a championship style race, I’ll take the guy with the 3:29 wheels. He ran 13:23 may 2023 so like 16 months ago. He’s in way better shape than that now.
Probably didn’t lap anyone twice, unless Macchia ran sub-16 pace for the last 800 of her 17:12. I’m guessing she didn’t. Second-to-last girl would have run 14:20 pace for the last 800 if she was lapped twice. Math.
BTW, Jim Spier's recap says Macchia "recently suffered from a mild illness," so that would help explain that.
Yeah in a championship style race, I’ll take the guy with the 3:29 wheels. He ran 13:23 may 2023 so like 16 months ago. He’s in way better shape than that now.
I guess it's a moot point because were he in the meet he'd either do 800/1500 double or the 1500/3000 double. I doubt we'd see him doing the 5000 at all.
Pretty simple. USATF admin failed to enter a mixed 4x4 3 weeks ago when the entry deadline passed. Someone realized it and lobbied WA all the way until an hour before the event start and WA wouldn't allow a late entry. What also needs explaining is why the USATF coaches had the athletes warmup as if they would compete and told them it was being corrected when clearly this is not an oversight of human error. Frustrating incompetence at the national office of USATF certainly and there should be a shakeup in the positions that allowed this oversight to occur and ok'd having US coaches warmup athletes and having them prepare for a race they would not be permitted to participate in.
Statement from USATF posted at OregonLive.com:
On Tuesday afternoon, USATF released a statement saying that the Team USA mixed 4x400-meter athletes were not entered into the system correctly. The participants named to the team were ineligible for the event.
“USATF explored every potential solution possible with World Athletics to resolve the situation, however the team were unable to run,” the statement from USATF reads. “We apologize for this oversight.”
But hey, Max Siegel is still the highest paid CEO of a US Olympic sports federation. Not a bad gig for part time work between that and his NASCAR venture, AND he has his cronies on the board of directors.
