relaysinjapan wrote:
I seem to recall Japan medalling in the 4x1 in a major champs some time recently. All because they were flawless on the exchanges. Each guy was probably 0.25-0.5s slower than the big name countries athletes but they made it up on the technicals.
Of course not that much slower, they e. g. have 3 sub10 guys this year.
I wrote how many runners non-african countries.
Centro didn't run a good strategic race. Twice made moves to the front, then got himself shuffled back. Not his m.o.
Coming into the final straight, he made the cautious choice to go wide for a clear lane. Lost ground there to people he was already trailing.
Once he straightened himself out, he was moving as fast as anyone, although working to do it.
Hardloper wrote:
Alll wrote:
8 runners represented non-african countries.
Island, an African paid to wear a Bahrain singlet once a year is still African
He is not Island, you idiot.
Island wasn't fluent in Polish, was he?
A lot of the real fast runners are out: Musagala, Souleiman, F. Ingebritsen, Manangoi, Tefera and Iguider. The final is wide open.
relaysinjapan wrote:
I seem to recall Japan medalling in the 4x1 in a major champs some time recently. All because they were flawless on the exchanges. Each guy was probably 0.25-0.5s slower than the big name countries athletes but they made it up on the technicals.
The US really needs to sort out its relays. How many times do they screw it up?
US had the 9th fastest time.
Replaying the US (M) 3rd exchange; did they fail to complete inside the zone?
wegfveqrgq wrote:
Hardloper wrote:
Island, an African paid to wear a Bahrain singlet once a year is still African
He is not Island, you idiot.
Island wasn't fluent in Polish, was he?
Calm down. There are always people there trying to write some stupid things
Looked like DeGrasse took off late. They are out.
joedirt wrote:
A lot of the real fast runners are out: Musagala, Souleiman, F. Ingebritsen, Manangoi, Tefera and Iguider. The final is wide open.
Yeah, outside of Cheruiyot it looks truly wide open. I think most would expect him to win, but for the rest of the medals it is wide open with Makh, Jakob and Centro probably having more love than the others. Engels and Kwemoi are major dark-horses.
joedirt wrote:
A lot of the real fast runners are out: Musagala, Souleiman, F. Ingebritsen, Manangoi, Tefera and Iguider. The final is wide open.
Mahk
Also, Lew. will medal
Not a big stretch prediction, but When Mahk makes a final he's lethal......and he looked smooth today
Sydney could be a freakin model my god
And I guess the European contingent thinks highly of Lewandowski because of his continental success. Have yet to see medal quality on the world stage.
qqtower wrote:
Replaying the US (M) 3rd exchange; did they fail to complete inside the zone?
According to Michael Johnson, Gillespie had control of the baton in the zone even though Rodgers still had his hand on it and that's all that matters. US last qualifier.
Definitely the most excited I've been for a women's 400h race.
joedirt wrote:
A lot of the real fast runners are out: Musagala, Souleiman, F. Ingebritsen, Manangoi, Tefera and Iguider. The final is wide open.
The race for second is wide open maybe, Cheruiyot has been unbeatable
What do the US 100m wc and oly guys do for practice between trials and wc/oly? Like how much faster are they going to get in that short time by training? When I ran we would start to ease up on the training come peak time to ensue our muscles were fully healed and we were as fresh as possible. Seems like most of their time should be spent practicing hand offs for the relays. Some of these teams look so polished and US always looks like trash
rojo wrote:
Who are the geniuses in charge of the relay team that thinks it's a good idea to run your best two people in the 4 x 100? I mean even if we had a good exchange on the final exchange , we'd have lost the prelim.
It's just so stupid. You need to have your best guys last so you can figure out how risky you want to be on the exchanges at the end.
I assume you are saying you don't put your fastest on early legs in the heats?
But, what if you have someone like Carmelita Jeter. I think they put her on the first leg because she was so fast out of the blocks, but she was also one of the fastest overall -- does that mean you avoid using her in the heats then?
5 National Records in the 4X100 prelims:
Netherlands, China, South Africa, Italy and Brazil.
This should be an exciting final.
WR!!!