Doubling makes no sense to me anyhow
Doubling makes no sense to me anyhow
FatSlowOldGuy wrote:
Didn’t hall drop out to be replaced by gardnier. MHS looks a little unhealthy already. I don’t see the most elite 400 guys ever making it through 4 200/400s
Yeah, I was thinking more about the U.S. championships. Hall barely broke 46 in China earlier this weekend. With Patterson’s improvement, making the U.S. team looks like it’s going to be even more challenging this year.
FatSlowOldGuy wrote:
Didn’t hall drop out to be replaced by gardnier. MHS looks a little unhealthy already. I don’t see the most elite 400 guys ever making it through 4 200/400s
As if to prove the point only 6 left in the hurdles/100
Everything about the format seems to me inferior to DL
rojo wrote:
So I watched GST #1 from start to finish. I've had some family stuff going on and haven't been watching this one as closely.
But this doubling format is still very hard for me to wrap my head around. I mean Patterson just runs a world lead in the 400 but we have to focus on who got 2nd and won the money.
It makes each race less signficant. Normally at a sporting event, we know the outcome right away. Here we have to wait for a 2nd race (i guess the Champions league is like that).
But it does get the stars racing twice, I guess. And gives them three days of tv inventory. And prevents people from not running through the line.
What do you guys think of the format? Net positive or negative? What if we just had big prize money for each race?
Doubling might work if we tweak it. Every event group should not be the same. One of the distance races needs to be rabbbited.
If we are going to double, I'd love to see the 1500 guys race the 1500 twice and see if we get the same outcome. Make one rabbitted and one not.
I think for some events the double might be ok. But we won't care about the flat 100 for the hurdlers. Just have them hurdle twice as well.
You can’t constantly analyze and critique the format and the concept, sometimes you just need to watch the races.
The format feels the most off to me with the hurdles. Russell runs 12.17 but the slam title goes to the winner of the 100, an event none of them would be running otherwise? I get the math but if it’s a short hurdles slam, make both events hurdles (200m hurdles? Idk)
I appreciate the shake up but if grand slam is going to win me over, something’s gotta change. Otherwise I’ll stick with diamond league.
looking_good wrote:
My god, a shoe brand needs to sign him NOW
You know you spend too much time on LetsRun if (like me) you read this as “My god, as shoe brand needs to sign him NOW.”
How about Masai Russell. Can only run 11.40 without hurdles, but can run 12.17 with hurdles.
Did anyone else catch the guy say “she’s a racer” referring to Hiltz right before going to commercial?!?
Flaming IG screed incoming …
Garand Salam wrote:
Did anyone else catch the guy say “she’s a racer” referring to Hiltz right before going to commercial?!?
Flaming IG screed incoming …
Get a life
mikehammer wrote:
Everything about the format seems to me inferior to DL
Agreed. It's a nice payday but all the hype around it was not needed.
looking_good wrote:
I get you don't like the doubling but I love the 3 days of world class track. Like watching a golf tournament over a weekend, I look forward to the multiple days, which we only get with Worlds and Olympics (trials / main event)
More multiple day meets doesnt = more interest from new spectatorship. Cant be compared to trials, olympics etc because athletes have to earn advancement to finals. GST is nowhere near this. DL just needs to come up with more money and a great 2-3 hour lineup including field events.
I love the doubling, seeing sprint athletes race off events is way way way rarer than seeing distance runners drop down or up, which happens pretty frequently. Think of it like seeing Jakob run an 800/1000, you see him on the bill and think it's interesting to see what he can do at the distance. Same thing for hurdlers running flat, SML running flat etc.
Pro athletes should have no problem running 2 events in 3 days, they run more than that in prelim/semi/finals at WC/OLY.
Wish field would be included though, would love to like PV/LJ, TJ/LJ, SP/DT(stretch but, I want to see Crouser throw disc/jav again, what can Kovacs do in the disc?)
Coming from a sprint/field perspective doubling is the strength of this format not the weakness, again, way rarer than the distance runners doing 'off' events, I'm having fun with this. I like the tactical distance races as well, something different, but I understand the times-focused people being annoyed with it. I loved that 5k in the first iteration that no one wanted to take until 4600m, it was wild seeing the laps tick off until so late.
Production of these events needs to be fixed especially these ridiculous camera angles though.
Announcer absolutely stumbling over Nikki’s pronouns lol. He kinda reminds me of Rojo
what the heck was that move by moraa
Mary Moraa makes a move and dies instantly. Couldn’t even make the bell lap lol.
McRunnin wrote:
How about Masai Russell. Can only run 11.40 without hurdles, but can run 12.17 with hurdles.
11.4 is still an insane time, hurdles are much different than flat, it's interesting to see the disparity of flat speed vs. hurdle technique, shows just how good she is over the hurdles technically.
did moraa decide "i dont feel good, may as well change the race up" and sprint to the front for 100m before jogging it in lmao
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