World Relays Sunday Live Thread 7-10pm Eastern

I almost didn't recognize Maggie Vessey with the USA uniform. I'm used to seeing more skin than that. She probably felt odd with all that fabric on Her skin.

Jeter has been through a lot with injury the last 2 years and doesn't quite have what she did in 2012. I think reality is setting in. Put Prandini in that anchor and USA wins.

fashion11 wrote:

I almost didn't recognize Maggie Vessey with the USA uniform. I'm used to seeing more skin than that. She probably felt odd with all that fabric on Her skin.

She looked hot and Fantastic in Red, and with GOLD around her neck and a victory Smile!

Crowd is getting raucous for 4x400. This should be tremendous. If Bahamas can somehow win, look out. This is already the loudest track meet of the year.

coach d wrote:

Jeter has been through a lot with injury the last 2 years and doesn't quite have what she did in 2012. I think reality is setting in. Put Prandini in that anchor and USA wins.

Eas English Gardner in there, I didn't catch the team names, busy racing back and forth from the BBQ, having a WC Relay party at my house.

All n all, everyone is pretty over-joyed with team USA. You can't win em all, yet this was a nice weekend. And good to see a team close to the Bahama's win something for the crowd.

Tremendous race to end World Relays!!!!

Merritt held off Chris Brown on the anchor but the 3rd leg made it interesting before Wariner pulled away at end of his leg.

you can still go to the universal sports link and watch a few hours for free.

4x400 was great, USA kept it close to be interesting. too many blowout wins already

splits:

verberg 44.91

mcquay 44.00

wariner 44.80

merritt 44.72

wejo wrote:

VCB and Jamaica over Jeter in USA in 4x100.

That's the first relay US has lost where they haven't dropped the stick.

Jeter looks shocked.

Jeter is clearly off the juice

The worst of the 4x200 is go back and note where Justin Gatlin is lined up. He is 20 meters down the track from all the other anchor legs because he lined up in 1st lap exchange zone, not final exchange zone so even if US is in it with no F up the US is a DQ.

Great coaching job Dennis! Both 4x2's F'd up. Three of 4 in past 2 years at this event. Who cares about the drug stigma with him, the relays can't produce when they need to!

Why didnt Coach mitchell just stick with the team that ran at penn relays. They ran 1:20.64 on a 45 degree day. Oh yeah I forgot.the middle 2 legs maurice mitchell and ameer webb dont train in florida with coach dennis mitchell. There splits were a combined 39.5 enroute to a 120.64. Put gatlin and gay with those 2 splits and u mite have a world record. Onstead we get another dropped baton. Wow. Somebody help me out.

wejo wrote:Rotich is a 1:42 guy but not a 1500 guy.52, 58 for him. No way he holds on I don't thinkRead more: http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=6479467&page=2#ixzz3Z90O23xk

wejo wrote:

Interesting. They just showed a slow mo replay of when Blankenship and Rotich got he stick. They looked at each other and Blankenship gestured to Rotich "you take the lead". Boy did he, running 26 and 52.

An inexperienced 1500 guy should have sat and kicked. Made it a much more interesting race however!!!

You got this confused.

The 1:42 guy Ferguson Cheruiyot Rotich ran the 800.

The anchor was Timothy Cheruiyot with 1:45/3:39 PBs, both at Nairobi altitude.

Applying NCAA altitude conversions would make him a 1:43/:3:34 guy.

Didn't they have the 4x1500 last year?

Did they get rid of that for the DMR? If so, I think it was a good call. DMR is more exciting.

Yea the Penn quartet would have been in it to win it and even if you make a change like putting Gatlin on at least practice the handoffs in the week you spent on USATF's dime having practice. But NOOOOOO, he has to go and yank off people who were supposed to be in the final and throw together an order that had done not one handoff togeher all week. He leads off Wallace Spearmon who is a notorious slow starter who proceeds to run .25 slower than trials leadoff guy Joe Morris who is a great starter and ran fastest split at Penn when accounting for block start vs rolling.

Then his ace, his own athlete, Justin Gatlin, is not lined up in the proper zone so even if US team clear to that point he would have brought on a DQ as he was lined up out of the zone 25 meters behind all the other anchor legs as he was in the zone for the lap before, not the final lap! Thats a HS mistake by a BAD HS coach.

The US coaches should have been positioned with one at one exchange and one at the other side just to help in the one confusing relay on the schedule.

I agree the US track media or world track media don't ask hard questions and thus we get the whole no accountability. USATF should have a FULL review board of team coaching after every event by athletes feedback and by independent group to look at such things, This is just inexcusable.