US Blows it in 4x400

At least the men's and women's legs are synchronized. I don't know whether they changed the rules to mandate this but previously it was ridiculous to watch a man run down a woman.

Somehow the Olympic silver medalist is comfortable competing in this event with a 48.4 split and we can't get McLaughlin, Muhammad, Mu, or any other fast runners with M- last names to compete. I'd even settle for, jump for joy at, Talitha Diggs running this. Felix ran pretty well, but Simon just rigged like crazy. On the men's side, it could have been a lot worse. I don't expect 43 splits in a non-event like this. Really, they should scrap the event. I'd much rather see a 4x2 or 4x8. The U.S. would potentially set a 4x2 men's record this year that might last decades with Knighton, Lyles, Kerley, and Norman or Bednarek, along with three other sub-20 guys this year available for heats, Coleman (19.92, +.5), Boling (19.92, -0.9), and Josephus Lyles (19.93, -0.3).

The rules were changed to mandate mfmf.

So you simply want to see an event the US can romp to victory in? Kind of like this one was supposed to be?

Felix was garbage. She was just as bad as the anchor.

Garbage? She ran 50.1 what did you want a 48? Who else would you have put on the team, Abby, Syd, Mu, they have there own races and rounds to run no one cares about the 4x4 mixed why burn out your top runners for this? This was for Allyson her final race and she ran well. you're a Coach?

Wow, I am from another country and you people are just lousy. Do you even support your own athletes?

I watched the relay and it looked like all the athletes ran their hearts out. (Your anchor so much so that she died over the final 50.)

What kind of fan craps all over their own nation’s athletes, who put in great efforts? The splits were actually more than solid for their capabilities and both of your men destroyed the fields in their legs.

Why not Mu in the final or even both prelim and final. It could of counted as her last hard workout before she runs NEXT WEEK in the 800 prelims. Why no one at USATF thought about going to her camp and giving her a chance to think about this. I know agents dont really care about their athletes running relays. I think running 1 or 2 hard 400's 5 to 6 days before her 1st round of the 800 would of been just fine. She could of cruised 50.5 in the prelim and 48.9 in the final and Team USA would of brought home the GOLD.....

Uhhhhh yeah it’s a relay split. 50.1 at this level isn’t very good.

The U.S. was embarrassed in this event. This does not bode well for the rest of the championships. The lack of effort was startling.

no reason to put Steiner in there to waste energy on weak event like this

3 of those sub 50 splits are at the world championships and could have been used on this relay (diggs, wilson, steiner). A sub 50 split wins the gold.

Weak? You're joking. It's a world championship event, end of story. The US threw away a gold medal ( well four gold medals ). Pretty pathetic. And, who's to say the US will win any gold medals? There are no certain gold medals. Sydney could hit a hurdle. Mu could go out way too fast and so on. Nothing is guaranteed...but with Sydney in the mixed relay ( like Bol ) the US would now have gold medals. What a debacle.

It would be even worse if the U.S. won it and it turned out to be the only track Gold Medal won by the U.S.

Yeah, not sure why everyone keeps calling it a weak event. It is new, but it is as valid as any other event in the WC. Those calling it weak probably are doing so because the US FAILED to put their strongest in the event and lost. Take the event seriously or continue losing and making excuses.

The US has at minimum 6 women who can split sub-50 (Muhammed, Mu, Diggs, Wilson, Steiner, McLaughlin) and none are in there. Meanwhile Netherlands has Bol running, Dominican Republic ran Paulino.

The mixed relay is BS and they should allow the different sexes to run against each other. That would be part of the strategy.

I thought it was fun. It showed that the WC women are running HS boys times.

Yes, Im sure the country was on pins and needles for this race.

They already have mens relay and womens relay. If they want it to be mixed gender it should have one cis man, one cis woman, one Trans, one intersex.

Also, if it was a serious event, it would be after the open 4 at a minimum.

Do they have single gender teams that can medal? Asking becaise i don't know.