Ireland could have won that heat if they’d run Adeleke instead of Sophie Becker, who split 51.7. They could be in contention for a medal but they don’t make the final. I really don’t like the decision; Adeleke would have had time to recover from an additional, 90% 49.xx effort.
Happy for Grant but a slightly better position and he might have won. He could have done it tonight.
The small gap Chep put on them at 500 was enough to force everyone to have to kick hard to close it, and Fisher had some traffic that last lap. He managed not to break his momentum much but he needed to have closed that gap with 200 to go to fight for gold and he didn't. But what a MFin BEAST to go out there and absolutely gut it the fk out with these other monsters. They went so deep into the pain chamber you saw these rest of the field simply couldn't handle it.
I am so freaking pumped for Fisher!! So glad he left BTC and changed it up before the Olympics. Such a beautiful thing to have faith in your training and coach. You rock, Grant!!
I’m not trying to be a hater, but her tactics were fairly inconsequential: there were stronger runners in the race. I hope Cranny runs well in the final but that would mean like 8th—she has practically zero chance at a medal.
Only tactic that matters is making it to the final - check.
The shooting would be a lot more interesting if they combined it with running, like they do with skiing in the winter.
I had previously wanted to see the 10,000 run with the javelin throwers or archers aiming towards the track to make things exciting and give the runners some incentive to run fast.
Why weren't lapsed runners moving out? Is there usually someone there to tell them to do so, or is just sportsmanship?
I just rewatched the race. Most of them did move over. Most lapped runners moved into lane #2. The problem was with 6 laps to go the pace slowed to 66.8 then 69.2 and the top 13 bunched up and they were in lanes 1,2 and 3. As they passed lapped runners those occupying lanes 2 and 3 had go around the lapped runner in lane 2.
Why weren't lapsed runners moving out? Is there usually someone there to tell them to do so, or is just sportsmanship?
I just rewatched the race. Most of them did move over. Most lapped runners moved into lane #2. The problem was with 6 laps to go the pace slowed to 66.8 then 69.2 and the top 13 bunched up and they were in lanes 1,2 and 3. As they passed lapped runners those occupying lanes 2 and 3 had go around the lapped runner in lane 2.
On commentary, Paula Radcliffe said that the best thing lapped runners can do is hold their line in Lane 1, unless they are aware enough to move out well in advance, which is unlikely given crowd noise making it hard to know when quicker runners are coming to overtake. The last thing the leaders need is a lapped runners moving erratically to get out of the way
Did I die and go to heaven? I just watched an incredible race with great commentating, camera perfection...I wanted Cheptegai to win if it wasn't Fisher, and I wanted Fisher to medal, and I wanted Nico to run well. They even kept the camera on the finish so I could see Nico finish.
That was incredible. Absolute perfect sports coverage.
Please, can we have this forever?
You have got to get a hold of yourself. This is embarrassing.
Not completely successfully as we all know too well; individual gold and women's 4x4 gold, but gassed in the mixed relay, which came first. Aside from that, none of Adeleke's rivals were in the mixed relay heats yesterday.
they should bring back 2 attempt starts for the 100 and 200. it sucks so much for athletes for your whole dreams to go to waste
I agree to a point.
I remember the days when everyone got one chance and we would see at least 2 or 3, sometimes even more, false starts every single heat. Athletes would just try their luck.
Then when they gave the field one chance and then everyone was on a warning just meant that there was nothing to lose trying your luck the first time because everyone is punished, so you just saw a false start every single time.
