This is a team full of anchors, in that they can’t be trusted to do anything other than one thing. Kerley cannot be anywhere else. There was never a doubt they would mess it up. Put Holloway starting, Kenny second, Coleman third, Kerley last. You cannot tell me King is better than Grant. But ultimately, they have to practice. When Lyles goes out on a wheel chair, they were done.
As my wife pointed out, surely they had to scramble the lineup because Lyles was missing. Probably not many reps with the combo.
I would think Coleman/Bednarek would’ve been the first two anyway though, right? Noah would be 3rd or 4th leg?
There’s no way they weren’t going to stick Lyles on the anchor leg if he was healthy, yet they didn’t even make it that far. Any other change in the order is coaching malpractice, especially since all they should’ve needed to do to win at least silver was have even mediocre handoffs.
On the USA 4x100 team page at olympics.com there is a sound icon next to Noah's name. When you click on it you will hear Noah pronouncing his name. Assuming the athletes chose whether or not to have this sound clip, so no surprise Noah probably is the one who added it.
Also, WA website recently changed the format of the athlete profile pages. We will likely see more multi-media stuff appearing like Noah's name pronunciation voice clip.
I would think Coleman/Bednarek would’ve been the first two anyway though, right? Noah would be 3rd or 4th leg?
There’s no way they weren’t going to stick Lyles on the anchor leg if he was healthy, yet they didn’t even make it that far. Any other change in the order is coaching malpractice, especially since all they should’ve needed to do to win at least silver was have even mediocre handoffs.
I wonder how much of this was one or more guys not happy that the slowest guy on the team was running the anchor? If you've ever coached the 4x100 you know what a PITA sprinters can be about who gets to run the anchor. It should be up to the coaches to be the adults in the room and decide the final order but they may have felt forced to make a change if someone was making a stink about it.
As someone who had the opportunity to work within the USA Track & Field organization you would be amazed (or maybe no) at the incompetence at every level of the organization. Max Siegel, Duffy Mahoney, Adam Schmenk. They were all clowns who really, really didn't know track & field. Yes, the people who head up the organization didn't understand the sport. I was stunned at how little these morons actually knew about the sport. Any DI (or DII or DIII) head coach would know more about track & field. And it is these idiots who choose the people who coach the teams and such. While it makes me mad at what happens (like the 4x1) it is completely understandable when one knows the people who run USATF. Honestly, every single one of them need to be thrown out the door and not allowed to ever be around the sport.
As someone who had the opportunity to work within the USA Track & Field organization you would be amazed (or maybe no) at the incompetence at every level of the organization. Max Siegel, Duffy Mahoney, Adam Schmenk. They were all clowns who really, really didn't know track & field. Yes, the people who head up the organization didn't understand the sport. I was stunned at how little these morons actually knew about the sport. Any DI (or DII or DIII) head coach would know more about track & field. And it is these idiots who choose the people who coach the teams and such. While it makes me mad at what happens (like the 4x1) it is completely understandable when one knows the people who run USATF. Honestly, every single one of them need to be thrown out the door and not allowed to ever be around the sport.
That's interesting, and I guess not surprising. Out of curiosity, do you have any examples of this lack of knowledge that come to mind?
There’s no way they weren’t going to stick Lyles on the anchor leg if he was healthy, yet they didn’t even make it that far. Any other change in the order is coaching malpractice, especially since all they should’ve needed to do to win at least silver was have even mediocre handoffs.
I wonder how much of this was one or more guys not happy that the slowest guy on the team was running the anchor? If you've ever coached the 4x100 you know what a PITA sprinters can be about who gets to run the anchor. It should be up to the coaches to be the adults in the room and decide the final order but they may have felt forced to make a change if someone was making a stink about it.