I did not think Bol could beat Sydney, but I have NEVER seen her fade in the straight like that. Her time was very slow for her. Not sure if she went out too hard, if the relay took too much from her, or maybe she has COVID too.
The relay was almost a week ago. She went out too hard over the first 200M.
Rounds are hard, running multiple ev,ents is hard, etc.
Bol's time would have been the WR until the second of Dalilah Muhammad's two WRs in 2019
SML is the greatest to ever do it by an unreal margin, now I want to see her go full Sifan Hassan and do an unreal quadruple or something (400, 400H, mixed relay, women's 4x4)
Femke looked like she has something - maybe Covid? Also she raced lots of relays. Not super fresh legs anymore for sure. But in general she could also run that time.
That's your alarm clock going off. Time to wake up now, reality calling you.
Bol looked sick when she jogged out for the start of the race. I said to another guy watching that she looked like she had been beaten up and he agreed.
Bol looked sick when she jogged out for the start of the race. I said to another guy watching that she looked like she had been beaten up and he agreed.
What happened was Bol got her ASS handed to her on a silver platter by SML.
Femke looked like she has something - maybe Covid? Also she raced lots of relays. Not super fresh legs anymore for sure. But in general she could also run that time.
In general she could also run that time?
What does that even mean?
In reality, she hasn't ever come close to that time
The amount of people in here that don't know who SML's coach is is too damn high. If you don't know who it is, or what he was doing during the 70s, 80s and 90s, your opinion is useless.
Bol looked sick when she jogged out for the start of the race. I said to another guy watching that she looked like she had been beaten up and he agreed.
What happened was Bol got her ASS handed to her on a silver platter by SML.
And there ya go....in this particular event, there is no one better and may ever will be. Bol? Well run that contrived mixed whatever the f that was..good for her. Sydney ran a one off training 200M in 22.07 ..come on now she medals easily at 200M, clearly wins 400M
Just deal with this, Bol was never beating her , not on a on motorbike, not in any event and why would anyone think differently. When she breaks the dirtiest record of all time, if she ever does the open 400 all out, I am wondering what people will say, "well she should have doubled"
Bol is a great athlete and today was not representative of her abilities. With that said the talk that she was going to potentially beat Sydney going into the games was ridiculous. Sydney has consistently performed at her best at world championships. On her best day Bol is still about a half second back on Sydney.
We throw around the GOAT term or best all time in sports way to often. And people get way to caught up in times, constantly forgetting the technology improvements. But Sydney level of dominance over her career to thus far put her in a different discussion than other gold medalists.