This. QW was ready to run a sub-45 second lead-off ten days ago. Then he checked into the Olympic Village and found all sorts of temptations he had never found living at home in Bowie, Maryland. And, his coach is not his baby-sitter. Coach is in charge of training, What happens after hours is not his/her business. QW was not ready for this and probably pounded the cardboard bed a little too hard. When people say "he'll be ready next time," yeah, probably he'll wait until after his race to enjoy "The Full Olympic Experience."
I'm actually betting he saw little play. The women looking for casual sex in the Olympic village have full grown, fit, men to choose from. Unless he found other teenagers who weren't strictly under lock and key and were looking for that, I bet not much happened at all. He probably gets more at Bullis school where he's a stud among peers.
Don't have a young guy like that run first leg. Chasing on 2nd leg would have been better. The US relay coaches need to all be fired. Gabby running in the 4 x 400m cost them the WR
My common sense tells me he didn't perform that poorly because the moment was too big for him. Something was or is clearly wrong. I get that it is a 3 turn stagger leading off right there but I assure you, the only time a healthy Quincy is going to run that slow of a split is when he was in 7th grade or if he has 1st locked up for a multi round event and he dialed it down. Kid split 44 twice in a couple of hours in one day on a relay. Let's just use a little common sense here.
Don't have a young guy like that run first leg. Chasing on 2nd leg would have been better. The US relay coaches need to all be fired. Gabby running in the 4 x 400m cost them the WR
Quincy running anywhere but first with that time and they would have been eliminated. NO CHANCE they make up the deficit over 1 or 2 legs
My common sense tells me he didn't perform that poorly because the moment was too big for him. Something was or is clearly wrong. I get that it is a 3 turn stagger leading off right there but I assure you, the only time a healthy Quincy is going to run that slow of a split is when he was in 7th grade or if he has 1st locked up for a multi round event and he dialed it down. Kid split 44 twice in a couple of hours in one day on a relay. Let's just use a little common sense here.
I have to agree with this, and imho, this situation will set him up well for the future. Not only did he get a gold medal, but he ran a time he hadn't officially run (per the WA site) since indoors a year and a half ago when he had just turned 15. His motivation will be off the charts.
Coaches usually put the slowest and/or least experienced runner as the first leg because it's the shortest distance.
It was not a final, so why not give Quincy the experience? In my opinion, the men's 4x100 handoff flub was more egregious than Quincy's leg of the 4x400.
All of these guys are great athletes and I will continue to support them, win are lose, because on any given day, you can have a bad race.
That is what I think. Norman, Hall, Benjamin, Lyle, Kerley were probably not options. So maybe Bassitt or Allen? Or Holloway though no 400 for him in quite a while? So Quincy maybe not such a bad choice?
My common sense tells me he didn't perform that poorly because the moment was too big for him. Something was or is clearly wrong. I get that it is a 3 turn stagger leading off right there but I assure you, the only time a healthy Quincy is going to run that slow of a split is when he was in 7th grade or if he has 1st locked up for a multi round event and he dialed it down. Kid split 44 twice in a couple of hours in one day on a relay. Let's just use a little common sense here.
That was in April. Applying common sense would also seem to indicate that holding a peak over a four-month period isn't reasonable.
I'm happy for him. Hes going to get a gold medal unless the USA team poops the bed again.
he ran better than every 4x100 american relay runner .'
give him a break, along with the gold medal.
Every, you say? He might have accomplished more in gaining a gold medal that no 4x100m runner got, but he didn't run better than the 4x100m leadoff, Christian Coleman.
they made the right decision on ellis but the vibe on that sounded like they couldn't decisively make up their mind and communicated late and poorly. wilson to me made sense as a prelim mixed guy. he then ends up as a prelim men's 4x4 guy. he's a HS kid just breaking in. i think more so than the older athletes he needed a clear homework assignment, be ready to run on x.
i think if wilson was sick he'd have owned up a la lyles. if he doesn't want to talk about it, my guess is it's politics. the relays are the part of the team where athletes are "selected" rather than "win" their way in.
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