I don't blame her at all. It sounds like her coach controls everything. If you think this was ugly, she'll get better. OTOH Athing Mu will get murdered in the 1500.
You know, i cannot really agree with you on this. It IS her fault. A coach is not your dictator and if she is allowing him to control all aspects of her career instead of ¨coaching¨ her, then that is her fault. I hope she can regain control of her running soon.
if my coach told me to go out fast, at a pace which i know will stuff me up, i would tell him to go ..ck himself.
I tried running hard when i was seeking to break 50, but it never worked. You have your own unique pace which any runner should know after years of running 400m.
competition at the highest level is also about racing. SM would have gone very close to winning with better pace judgment, and would have shown greater respect for her opponent (the winner) who ran a beautifully judged race.
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Lol Sydney can defend her title in the hurdles running backwards. She literally has no competition in that event. Femke is several league behind Sydney
Lol Sydney can defend her title in the hurdles running backwards. She literally has no competition in that event. Femke is several league behind Sydney
That might be closer than people think this year, with Bol growing into her new stride pattern and Sydney (perhaps?) not quite as well optimized in training for the hurdles this year, what with her playing around in the 400 flat.
Yep, but (American) expectations were simply much over-inflated, both here and and in the press (after her hurdles WRs where she demolished the standards with her flat speed in world top and best technique - first such female hurdler so WRs)
"McLaughlin-Levrone is probably the only athlete competing today who has a chance to run faster than 47.60." "She’s a significant betting odds favorite, according to oddsmakers at Unibet Sportsbook."
Don't agree, it's super tough WR, women's 400 and 800 WRs are the most challenging standards of all, don't think she has a chance.
As I wrote before Felix also ran super-fast splits (47.72 to SML's 47.91, 48.01 and 48.20) but ended her career with 49.26 PB "only" (4th US at the time, now 5th). SML has much time and will be better though.
Her 22.66 opening was excessively ambitious and ridiculous in my opinion so she faded badly. Naser split 23.2 when she ran 48.14.
Yep, but (American) expectations were simply much over-inflated, both here and and in the press (after her hurdles WRs where she demolished the standards with her flat speed in world top and best technique - first such female hurdler so WRs)
"McLaughlin-Levrone is probably the only athlete competing today who has a chance to run faster than 47.60." "She’s a significant betting odds favorite, according to oddsmakers at Unibet Sportsbook."
Don't agree, it's super tough WR, women's 400 and 800 WRs are the most challenging standards of all, don't think she has a chance.
As I wrote before Felix also ran super-fast splits (47.72 to SML's 47.91, 48.01 and 48.20) but ended her career with 49.26 PB "only" (4th US at the time, now 5th). SML has much time and will be better though.
Her 22.66 opening was excessively ambitious and ridiculous in my opinion so she faded badly. Naser split 23.2 when she ran 48.14.
Breathless, panting fanboys who think a 2 plus second improvement at the 400 meter distance is as easy as a 2 second improvement in the 10000.
Miller-Ubio has a 21.74 or and “only” a 48.36 .. she’s nowhere near the wr and she is a 400m specialist, not a hurdler. There’s simply no way someone with a 22.x pr is going anywhere closer to Koch’s record.
A little humble pie will be good for her and for the event.
Go get em next time.
I have to say and many will trivialize this, but this is what a season opener might look like, only its friggin June. Gotta run some races , seriously.
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Nah. 21.7-21.8 is more than enough speed to break it. But it will also require a lot of strength. But yes that’s the weak point for McLaughlin. Obviously the strength is well past where it needs to be based off her 400 hurdles times, it’s just a matter of pacing and using the energy optimally
Not saying this to pick on you but everyone here needs to shut the f--- up. Distance running isn't sprinting and when you guys are talking about "strength" here you're talking out your [please do not use profanity].
I’m not. I used simplistic terms just to make my post digestible. Don’t be weird. I have never run anything over 800m competitively in my life and generally ran 400m or less. Arguing that Sydney just doesn’t have the overall speed may be a fair point, but she has the endurance and strength.
Miller-Ubio has a 21.74 or and “only” a 48.36 .. she’s nowhere near the wr and she is a 400m specialist, not a hurdler. There’s simply no way someone with a 22.x pr is going anywhere closer to Koch’s record.
Marie José Pérec, Kratochvilova, Eid Naser are way slower than Miller Uibo at 200m and have better 400 pb’s.
Absolutely. I'm not knocking Sydney, I think she's great for the sport and I wish she'd race a lot more. The only thing I'm knocking is the absurdity that just because someone has the WR in the 400mH that they are suddenly a candidate to break the flat 400m record. We saw this same silliness play out with Warholm, he destroyed the 400mH record and when we finally see him in a flat 400m he's 2 seconds away from the WR.
When we finally see someone break the women's or the men's 400m WR, they will have world class 200m speed. The 400mH are almost counter productive in that regard, requiring the athlete to regularly extend their stride at the expense of turnover and the additional endurance required to race the 400mH comes at the expense of top speed.
That's the issue. It was outright buffoonery to suggest Sydney was capable of 47.60, yet many were insisting it. That type sees no problem in chopping 7 tenths here or 3 seconds there, even if none of the decisive variables cooperate.
Sydney is simply not fast enough. Many of us have posted that theme. Bol's coach Meuwly breaks down 400 runners into two categories...flyers and diesel. He says flyers historically have more success. If you want to design a runner to potentially break 47.60 it would have to be an elite 200 flyer who simultaneously had interest in the 400 at a young age. It's already gone for Shericka Jackson because she did it the other way, dropping down to the short sprints. Nobody is going to mentally or physically endure the 400 training again after dipping to success at 100/200.
Sydney is more than capable of winning 400 flat gold but if she does so it will be in a very good time that doesn't begin to resemble Koch's record. I would estimate that her hurdles time would have to be 49.4 range to translate reasonably well to 47.60 capability. It is lunacy to subtract 3 full seconds.
You know, i cannot really agree with you on this. It IS her fault. A coach is not your dictator and if she is allowing him to control all aspects of her career instead of ¨coaching¨ her, then that is her fault. I hope she can regain control of her running soon.
if my coach told me to go out fast, at a pace which i know will stuff me up, i would tell him to go ..ck himself.
I tried running hard when i was seeking to break 50, but it never worked. You have your own unique pace which any runner should know after years of running 400m.
competition at the highest level is also about racing. SM would have gone very close to winning with better pace judgment, and would have shown greater respect for her opponent (the winner) who ran a beautifully judged race.
If you don't trust your coach, that relationship is over. Coaching is not about writing workouts, they all do more or less the same thing, there's no secrets. So after that, it's all about the trust between athlete and coach. If an athlete doesn't trust what their coach tells them to do, which races to run and how to run them, then it's over. In that respect, it's not a surprise that SML ran all-out for 300 if that's what Kersee told her to do. The time to re-evaluate for SML will be at the end of the season - did that crazy tactic in Paris set her up for something bigger later in the season?
Personally, I don't know why she didn't just do that in LA rather than scratching. She'd have been able to take that knowledge and adjust for Paris. I think Kersee got that wrong but time will tell
if my coach told me to go out fast, at a pace which i know will stuff me up, i would tell him to go ..ck himself.
I tried running hard when i was seeking to break 50, but it never worked. You have your own unique pace which any runner should know after years of running 400m.
competition at the highest level is also about racing. SM would have gone very close to winning with better pace judgment, and would have shown greater respect for her opponent (the winner) who ran a beautifully judged race.
If you don't trust your coach, that relationship is over. Coaching is not about writing workouts, they all do more or less the same thing, there's no secrets. So after that, it's all about the trust between athlete and coach. If an athlete doesn't trust what their coach tells them to do, which races to run and how to run them, then it's over. In that respect, it's not a surprise that SML ran all-out for 300 if that's what Kersee told her to do. The time to re-evaluate for SML will be at the end of the season - did that crazy tactic in Paris set her up for something bigger later in the season?
Personally, I don't know why she didn't just do that in LA rather than scratching. She'd have been able to take that knowledge and adjust for Paris. I think Kersee got that wrong but time will tell
You wrote that Sydney needs to trust what her coach tells her to do, and you simultaneously said that Kersee made a bad decision. You can't have it both ways. Either Sydney does what Kersee says or she doesn't.
