Was expecting more than 51.7.. hard to take Bol seriously when we know there's someone significantly better than her out there. Too bad SML is a wimp and couldn't race to show her who's boss.
SML has only gone sub 51.4 once in her life. We don't know if she could easily repeat it.
True. Edwin Moses ran thee WR 47.02 in 1983, won Gold in 84 and bronze in 88 and was unbeaten until 1987 but he never came within .3 of that time again.
Bol ran the diamond league races, ran the mixed relay heat and final (fall down). And she will be running 4x400m relay on Saturday and Sunday. She deserve to run conservatively. She can go back and try to run fast in diamond league final
How are the long jump numbers today still so far away from Beaman's 8.90 from 1968??? All the fancy shoes, better nutrition, bouncier tracks (and drugs) and yet we're still half a metre off a 50+ year old Olympic record?
Yeah I know Powell beat it in 1992 but he's the only one to do it.
And Lewis pulled his head out of his azz long enough to long that same 20 minute span, too. Otherwise, yeah, LJ is an anomaly.
Kara is awful. She just says absurd things. He might be worse but she is bad.
I strongly disagree with this. I have read a lot of criticism of Kara on this site, and some of it might be warranted. I tried to follow her on IG and just couldn't. Her audience, I believe, is incredibly affluent liberal chicks who don't live in the same world as most of us. I have a lot in common with her and find her pretty out of touch. I am her age and have been an avid runner for most of my life and love the sport so much. That being said, I really like Kara the runner - the woman who has experience on the world stage and clearly has a deep passion for distance running. I think her announcing these events is good for our sport. I would much rather hear an enthusiastic, well-informed and experienced runner call these races than some of the people we were stuck with before she came along. I think she is really good at this, but she is also relatively new. As she gets more experience she will only get better. She makes a point to pronounce each runner's name right and she gets their stats right and their personal information. Not just the Americans, but all of the runners. She also does a good job of giving some insight on what runners might be thinking or feeling during the race. Few people have the personal experience to do that. I do not connect with her personally, but she does a really good job calling distance races, especially considering that she is relatively new at it.
Bol ran the diamond league races, ran the mixed relay heat and final (fall down). And she will be running 4x400m relay on Saturday and Sunday. She deserve to run conservatively. She can go back and try to run fast in diamond league final
In fact, she has almost ran more races this week than Mu and SML combined for the entire season.
Kara is awful. She just says absurd things. He might be worse but she is bad.
I strongly disagree with this. I have read a lot of criticism of Kara on this site, and some of it might be warranted. I tried to follow her on IG and just couldn't. Her audience, I believe, is incredibly affluent liberal chicks who don't live in the same world as most of us. I have a lot in common with her and find her pretty out of touch. I am her age and have been an avid runner for most of my life and love the sport so much. That being said, I really like Kara the runner - the woman who has experience on the world stage and clearly has a deep passion for distance running. I think her announcing these events is good for our sport. I would much rather hear an enthusiastic, well-informed and experienced runner call these races than some of the people we were stuck with before she came along. I think she is really good at this, but she is also relatively new. As she gets more experience she will only get better. She makes a point to pronounce each runner's name right and she gets their stats right and their personal information. Not just the Americans, but all of the runners. She also does a good job of giving some insight on what runners might be thinking or feeling during the race. Few people have the personal experience to do that. I do not connect with her personally, but she does a really good job calling distance races, especially considering that she is relatively new at it.
Honestly, I think she’s an amazing announcer. Fans of distance running are lucky to have her calling these events.
How are the long jump numbers today still so far away from Beaman's 8.90 from 1968??? All the fancy shoes, better nutrition, bouncier tracks (and drugs) and yet we're still half a metre off a 50+ year old Olympic record?
Yeah I know Powell beat it in 1992 but he's the only one to do it.
And Lewis pulled his head out of his azz long enough to long that same 20 minute span, too. Otherwise, yeah, LJ is an anomaly.
So many of those top marks coming from that Lewis-Powell duel suggests all, not just some, of the marks were heavily wind-aided. The gauge doesn't measure the wind everywhere, just where the gauge is.
And noone getting close to it since suggests the crackdown on pseudoephedrine hurt the lightweight sprinter/jumper versus the jacked up pure sprinter.
It's a good point, but Moses had already run 47.13 and 47.14 before he ran 47.02 and had a crapload of times in the mid 47s. He also turned 28 in 1983 and had probably effectively peaked by that time. He often won his races by over a second, or he probably would have run faster in the early 80s.
I find it so funny that US coaches don't allow their athletes to run relay heats or even finals to concentrate on the athletes main event. Bol is at least running for the country. SML shows up like what 4-5 times a year. Bol is at least doing for the love of the sports.
Arop has the muscle mass of a 200m guy, it makes no sense to me. He is enormous.
Uh, ya Arop looked great ... but, no he's not muscle bound at all. I've been face to face with the dude multiple times. He has an ideal 400m build. Long legs, short torso. Adjust your TV set.
No idea who's on form in the decathlon. Should be interesting.
Pierce LePage just won the Gotzis Hypo-Meeting. He beat Damian Warner who's coming back from an injury from last year's WC, but still looked pretty damn good and scored a lot of points. Pierce put together a lot of great PRs and scored 1 point less than what he scored to get a Silver last year.
Harrison Williams, the US Under-20 record holder came back from a surgery recently and got 2 PRs in the Decathlon this year. One to win in Mt. Sac and 1 to win the US championships.
Leo Neugebauer destroyed the collegiate record this year and has been held back from competing a lot more than last year when he was cooked way before worlds.
Kyle Garland broke the collegiate record in the indoor Heptathlon, only a couple of points off of Ashton Eaton's indoor Heptathlon World Record, but looked kinda tired in the US championships and only got 4th place.
Ayden Owens-Delerme put down the 3rd best Heptathlon score in history in that meet, but hasn't contested a full Decathlon this year as he's focused on the 400mH for Arkansas team points and because he was dealing with early season health issues.
Karel Tilga from Estonia got a PR early in the year in the decathlon and competed decently in Gotzis too.
The two Norwegian decathletes, Markus Rooth and Sander Skotheim, have been trading back and forth national records and have pushed each other to really good scores this year and Skotheim finished just behind Kevin Mayer in the European Indoor Championships. Skotheim scored the exact same score in the European Under 23 championships as he did in the Gotzis Hypo-Meeting for 3rd, so has shown some consistent form.
And of the old guard Kevin Mayer, he of course won the European indoor championships, but hasn't done a full Decathlon this season. Clearly in good shape though from individual event performances and indoor Gold.
Lindon Victor got a national record for Grenada in his last Decathlon of last year and won the Combined Events Tour last year, so has a bye and got 7th in the Hypomeeting. He finished last year on a high with a Gold medal in the Commonwealth Games and then the national record. Very good 2nd day performer.
Niklas Kaul did win a Decathlon in Germany recently with one of his best scores and tends to elevate his game well in the major champs, so looking pretty good.