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Hassan was no class for not even getting up and finishing.
So what if you missed the medals and are devastated. You're 10m from the finish and you're gonna just lie there and mope about falling? You could be 4th, 5th. Get up and get a result.
Now here comes the winner to console you and assist you to stroll across the line, even though the only injury is to your feelings. If not a technical DQ from an assist, that is still no class behavior for an athlete and competitor.
In an olympics a couple decades ago, a British 400 runner's leg about clean tore itself off from him on the 2nd turn, but he tried to get up and stagger forward, he wanted to finish so bad. His dad jumped onto the track and helped him agonize the last 110m on his mutilated limbs (a DQ of course) as the crowd wept and cheered in amazement. Hassan is the complete opposite of that.
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the saddest part is that if she hadnt drifted i think she may have won gold. another issue is that she waited way too long to move to the front and had to cover 400 faster than she otherwise would've to win. Alsooo... bc of this, she had to pass Monson super wide on the back stretch and wasted energy doing that. And, of course, she would've been a bit faster if she hadn't run a 59 sec closing 400 in a 1500 a few hours earlier. All of this is to say that Sifan's decisions were the diff between not medaling and Gold, not her shape or speed. Really sad
Downvote all you want, Hassan is an absolute loser for just lying there crying on the track 10m from the finish. Zero respect if I had any for her before.
Evan Jager was equally if not more devastated to fall in his only lifetime sub 8 chance. He got right up and finished. That's what you do.
Downvote all you want, Hassan is an absolute loser for just lying there crying on the track 10m from the finish. Zero respect if I had any for her before.
Evan Jager was equally if not more devastated to fall in his only lifetime sub 8 chance. He got right up and finished. That's what you do.
She got up and was smiling. You are a stupid loser.
Downvote all you want, Hassan is an absolute loser for just lying there crying on the track 10m from the finish. Zero respect if I had any for her before.
Evan Jager was equally if not more devastated to fall in his only lifetime sub 8 chance. He got right up and finished. That's what you do.
There've too many athletes tumbled today on that surface (not only the ones the camera's was on). An examination of that pitch new surface should be needed. Mathematically seen all that falling stinks. Better pray there won't be more falling coming week, in stead of pointing out the wrongs, as if y'all were on the spot.
All these downvote doubters! LOL! She said in her post-race interview: "I'm lucky enough to have another chance in a couple of days so... I would like my revenge."
When an athlete the likes of Femke Bol says that, you should probably listen.
Sub 51 coming right up!
Nothing about her race today suggests she’ll lose the 400h. Nothing about her race today suggests she’ll run sub-51.
Everything in her progression since switching to 14 steps suggest she will break 51.
Syd ran 51.46 in Tokyo and then 50.68 in Eugene at Worlds. Femke ran 51.45 in London and now she's running on pure hate so 50.94 is easily doable.
No one thought 50.68 was possible until it was. Come the finals, she will break 51. Guaranteed!
You going to get twisted and ban me for disagreeing?
Hassan was no class for not even getting up and finishing.
So what if you missed the medals and are devastated. You're 10m from the finish and you're gonna just lie there and mope about falling? You could be 4th, 5th. Get up and get a result.
Now here comes the winner to console you and assist you to stroll across the line, even though the only injury is to your feelings. If not a technical DQ from an assist, that is still no class behavior for an athlete and competitor.
In an olympics a couple decades ago, a British 400 runner's leg about clean tore itself off from him on the 2nd turn, but he tried to get up and stagger forward, he wanted to finish so bad. His dad jumped onto the track and helped him agonize the last 110m on his mutilated limbs (a DQ of course) as the crowd wept and cheered in amazement. Hassan is the complete opposite of that.
Nothing about her race today suggests she’ll lose the 400h. Nothing about her race today suggests she’ll run sub-51.
Everything in her progression since switching to 14 steps suggest she will break 51.
Syd ran 51.46 in Tokyo and then 50.68 in Eugene at Worlds. Femke ran 51.45 in London and now she's running on pure hate so 50.94 is easily doable.
No one thought 50.68 was possible until it was. Come the finals, she will break 51. Guaranteed!
You going to get twisted and ban me for disagreeing?
Uh, no? I’ve never done that to anyone. And I certainly wouldn’t start over a discussion of whether Femke Bol is likely to break 51 in the 400h final 😂
I’m not going to “guarantee” anything about her time in the final because that’s foolish, as should be readily evident after the two track finals today. I’m merely saying that her anchor today showed neither the kind of form you’d expect from a sub-51 400 hurdler (remember, McLaughlin split 47.9 a few days after her 50.68), nor the significant dip in form that it would seemingly require for her not to win the 400h.
I hope she does run sub-51. I like her as an athlete and it would be awesome if someone approaches McLaughlin’s mark.
The Boling fanbois going gaga over a 45.13 3rd leg sums up letsrun. He earned his spot by making the USA final but he’s run of the slowest (of not the slowest) splits of any American medalist on a 4x400 relay at Worlds or Olympics in the last 40 years.
He did run over 3 seconds faster than the anchor leg