It felt like the kind of race where Grant could've taken it by the scruff of the neck and gone with a mile to go. Looked like he lacked the killer instinct - Got out-alpha'd by some gigachads.
Trying to check the splits for this and the final W100m results, and the World Athletics live timing site has crashed. Awesome.
Shame for her that it is probably the most boring event at the moment with Alfred's injury.
Could have given her the medal in February.
Alfred wasn't injured in February, they had an extremely close race at Prefontaine. She actually wasn't ever even injured. She had a very good heat and semi and crumbled in the final.
I think Nico could have medaled if he was in better position at the bell lap. He was boxed in and a little further back. Overall I liked how he sat back and didn’t yo-yo for the first part of the race, but he had to go wide and surge a couple times before fully kicking down the home stretch.
Fisher played it too safe, I understand that it’s hot out but I’m not sure why he left it to a kick with that many guys still in the race who have better kicks than him.
Nico positioning - definitely
Grant - as others have said, that was more of a fade than not having a kick. I think he planned to kick sooner like he has in the past (from 1k or so) but was feeling off, tried to just hold on to the increasing pace, and we all saw the fade at the end when he had nothing left. The question is why - training errors? illness? Heat impacted him more than others? Phase of the moon?
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It felt like the kind of race where Grant could've taken it by the scruff of the neck and gone with a mile to go. Looked like he lacked the killer instinct - Got out-alpha'd by some gigachads.
Trying to check the splits for this and the final W100m results, and the World Athletics live timing site has crashed. Awesome.