Hold your horses wrote:
Women in general try to be nice and non confrontational.
I agree they should be more proactive and speak out against this injustice.
Hahaha ... that's a good one!
Hold your horses wrote:
Women in general try to be nice and non confrontational.
I agree they should be more proactive and speak out against this injustice.
Hahaha ... that's a good one!
Dibaba ran 3:50 last yr and closed in like what don't quote me.. 1:57? Dibaba is actually an attractive women.. Shoot a supermodel compared to semenya. I would love to see these two race an 800 I could see dibaba on a good day run 1:54 mid it would be nice to get her spank semenya
Here's the deal Semenya looks more male to me.. Semenyas physical features face, musculature, stature are male.. From what I understand Semenyas testosterone level is more than 3 x's that of a normal female . So how is Semenya allowed to run in elite races as a female? This PC garbage has gotten really out of hand
it is not about being PC!!! If she sets a world record, IAAF will make more money. It is good old capitalistic greed!!
LetsRun.com wrote:
Pierre-Jean Vazel opened this up on twitter and it's a good question.
The question almost seems preposterous at first but Caster Semenya closed in 13.6.
Is that the fastest ever? We have an article here with video of the finish:
http://www.letsrun.com/news/2016/05/final-100m-caster-semenyas-158-26-800m-fastest-ever/Here's our commentary on some otger final 100m:
We went and watched Semenya�s 1:55.45 800m PR from the 2009 Worlds and her final 100 couldn�t have been faster than 14.5. We watched world record holder Jarmila Kratochv�lov��s 1:54.68 World Championship win in 1983 and can only guess where the 100m to go mark is from watching the 100m, but guess she closed in no faster than 13.9. The fastest 800m in the last 30 years was Pamela Jelimo�s 1:54.01 in Zurich in 2008. We can�t see the 100m mark in that race either but don�t think she closed faster than 14.4.
That's about as your some male 1:45x close in. If Caster was a H.S. boy, my first talk would be don't stay in the pack when know the pace is too slow, take the lead, run the first 400m in 55 and let him know he's capable of running 1:53. When you have that much energy at the end, you ran the 600 way too slow.
She/he is obviously being advised to run like that on purpose. Now, running 13.6 last 100 is something to give speculation but I'm thinking her/his coaches/agent is ok with letting her/him finish that fast.
But I'm most certain their plan is run with the pack for 700m then spring for the win.. It won't be until the Olympic finals that they let her/him run loose but then that will be their excuse that semenya peaked for the finals
I haven't seen Caster in a while and just watched the race. I mean, WTF. That dude is jacked and is clearly a man.
I would like semenya to stop being a coward and race some guys and get a big piece of humble pie. Try to outkick Robby Andrews last 100 like that I would pay good money to see that
exthrower wrote:
He would have run faster if his jock strap wasn't chafing him.
Thank you for sharing your experience.
Scary as s wrote:
I would like semenya to stop being a coward and race some guys and get a big piece of humble pie. Try to outkick Robby Andrews last 100 like that I would pay good money to see that
That's probably exactly what's going to happen eventually.
Then he'll retire and stay at home with his wife.
I agree, there is something wrong here. What if a few top men declare themselves to be women and ruin the 1500m. Dibaba would have to take 4 sec per lap off her best time to complete.
Scary as s wrote:
I would like semenya to stop being a coward and race some guys and get a big piece of humble pie. Try to outkick Robby Andrews last 100 like that I would pay good money to see that
This would be better for semenya too. Currently he holds back for 7/8 of the race to try to minimize the obvious problem of letting a man race women. However, this isn't good for him in terms of performance. Who doesn't want to do their very best? The only way he'll know how fast he can really run is to race elite men. I bet he can take significant time of his PB if he was training for and racing against men. I have no idea why he's interested in just beating women.
Obviously it could run faster if it wanted, but of course it has to make it look like a somewhat close race. I mean really, what if it won the races by going out and blasting the field by 5 seconds every race? Then there would finally be something done to keep it from running against women. But if it makes it look like it was a competitive race then officials look the other way.
Anyone remember right around the time it was being investigated and it was during the Olympic/World Championship (forgot which) race where Semanya went out and blasted the field built a big lead and then in the last 150 meters just slowed up and looked like it was jogging and allowed the Russian woman to pass by? My opinion is that the committee had told it that it would not be allowed to win the gold so either throw the race or it would be disqualified for testosterone level. So Semanya was trying to make a statement that look I can easily win and blow the field away but I'm not allowed to.