Congrats to Hocker and USA to the 5000m gold. I think it shows you gotta have very good stamina as well as a 1500m / mile specialist to be able to use your superior finishing speed the last lap (52,6 sec for Hocker ). 💪👍🖐
i hope kung fu kenny and noah can make up. kenny probably needs to straight up apologize for letting jealousy get the best of him.
Noah is a great runner, and I know it's all an act, but he needs to respect his competitors more.
he annoys me as much as anybody. but kenny had people he knew running a gossiping track twitter, with not great things written in it. at the same time he and noah going for dinners together, etc.
Congrats to Hocker and USA to the 5000m gold. I think it shows you gotta have very good stamina as well as a 1500m / mile specialist to be able to use your superior finishing speed the last lap (52,6 sec for Hocker ). 💪👍🖐
just re-watched it on YT, he ran that pretty much in lane 2 through traffic!
Worst thing about these relays is that bum teams like Germany can just be good at handoffs and steal medals.
Yeah. I also hate it when basketball or football players practice plays or even their jump shot. In the relays they should simply add up personal bests and award medals without racing.
Let Russia back, WA. Israel is doing much worse yet they're allowed to compete. The US has invaded multiple countries and is now threatening Venezuela, yet never a hint of a ban. We know with Russia in the competition the Americans won't be able to run up such insane medal counts.
Some of y'all Americans, with your population of 240million, need to be more generous with your praise of smaller nations!
Luckenkemper is a fantastic relay runner, usually running the curve on leg 3 where she's often the fastest, and here on leg 4 she eas running everyone down, including JAM & USA. Props where it's due!
Similarly in the 4x4, I think Bol knows Pryce is a quality athlete and there was no running her down so she coasted to bronze.
Irby-Jackson obviously was fast but don't take away from Whittaker who was over 1 second faster than Saalberg & others on leg 1. It was already over then. Klaver ran a brilliant 49.08 too for some redemption. A really strong leg, and then Vervaet continued to impress her with a 49.57, faster than Williams 49.58. But 4 great legs on leg 2. De Witte, with just a 51.71 SB, runs a 50.44 split - she's so reliable.
A really great relay for the top four teams here.
As for the men's...wow, what a final leg! I agree Benjamin looked a bit awkward, he was loping and looking slightly off. Lucky for him he just held on for silver...because I can't imagine the backlash if they had got bronze !
Netherlands medal in 3 relays, but also overall medal placing was great; not bad for a relatively small nation of 17 million.