Wow. How NOT to run a 4 x 100. US men's medal drought in 4 x 100 is now going to extend to 24 years

i understand the idea of going with guys who have time to work on it versus the guys in individual events. but i also understand that the guys who make the olympic finals have "earned" the spot. if you are going to do it that way, there needs to be some accountability in there. if you want to run on the final 4x1 team, you need to do this this and this. you need to make it to this this and this. you need to come to this camp for x amount of days during the month of x. whatever it is, there needs to be some leadership to set accountability. and if they don't want to do that, then don't let the door hit yuh on the way out. thank you, next.

As Twain said, "“It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.”

You clearly know nothing about basketball, so you and we would be better off if you kept your comments to track. USA basketball is playing well together and Kerr (love him or hate him) emphasizes moving the basketball (no hero ball, etc). They just happened to face a team in Serbia that has the best player in the world and who elevates his teammates, and Serbia was shooting the lights out. Ever watched March Madness? US beats Serbia easily in a best of 7 but in a single-elimination game it would not have been a shock for Serbia to win given that they were playing great and the other factors I just mentioned.

Actual footage of the USA Men's 4x1 pre-race warmup

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Larry, Moe and Kerley
and Shemp I guess

I haven't read all the responses and probably someone has mentioned what I'm about to say.

Carl Lewis is FURIOUS!

He deserves to be. This is becoming a joke by the U.S.

They didn't drop it.

It was soooooooooooo bad that the incoming runner, Coleman, not only ran into the outgoing runner, Bednarek, but also passed him. Yes, he did pass him. Bednarek messed up 'bigly'. I'm trying to clean up the language here.

Then Bednarek passed the zone before receiving the baton. He almost literally stopped to receive it.

This is hilarious. Thanks.

Nobody should have the spot handed to them. At the 36 Olympics we had a team that had qualified without Jesse Owens or Metcalf? We can go back to have a team that is separate from the individual qualifiers. Insanity is doing the same thing and expecting different outcomes. Time to do something different.

Same exact duo that screwed up the semis.

Freds gotta go

Wrong guy. Kenny. Fred did the same thing last night. Then Kenny does the same but worse lol. Unreal

Nah Fred did the same thing he did in the prelims. He’s standing there waiting and not running. Then obviously Kenny left way too early. Fred doing the same thing twice in a row is insane. Kenny will get all the blame. They both sucked

When did we become a narcissistic capitalist culture? Was Carl Lewis a humble self- effacing socialist? His group took pride in running relays.

Kerley takes terrible handoffs, but if you add the numbers, he still ran what would have been one of the faster last legs today. we lost EVERYTHING on that second leg. What kenny did cost nearly a full second. what fred does costs a tenth or two.

Actually just looked it up. Fred ran an 8.79. two other guys ran an 8.78.

Bednarek 9.93. next slowest was 9.06!!! Fastest was 8.88.

As a coach I had some trouble hetting my relay team (mainly 4x100) to step aside from their personal spheres and concern to run their leg fast, and focus on simple mechanics of the baton carry and exchange. For some it seemed and imposition on them to have to spend time on menial mechanics. It only takes one out of four to be focused only on his own performance, speed and appearance, to wreck a team effort. It looked like there were more than one unfocused individuals on that "team!"

Japan, China and (on the next tier down) Thailand always seem to many to "overperform" simply because of their silky REHEARSED exchanges, which end up gaining seconds.

US coaches refuse to change to safer and faster underhand pass. Look at Japan and France - way less talent with much better passes. Carl will go traditional too like most collegiate coaches so problem will continue. Definition of insanity - doing same thing over and over again expecting different results. It's big part of the problem that most athletes come out of NCAA system where few use underhand pass.

This article from 2017 provides the data and while US coaches resist it has only gotten worse: "Since adopting the underhand baton exchange, the Japanese men’s 4x100m relay team has been one of the most consistent teams in the world, featuring and placing in ten out of twelve global finals between 2001 and 2016. In comparison, Jamaica have placed in nine finals since 2001, Trinidad and Tobago in eight, the US in six (and was retrospectively disqualified from two of them), Canada in five and Great Britain in only four. All of these teams use the down-sweep technique."

worldathletics.org

The World's Best Exchange Rate | SPIKES | World Athletics

How four athletes, none with a personal best quicker than 10 seconds, defeated a host of the world’s fastest sprinters on the biggest stage of all.

Link:worldathletics.org/spikes/news/japans-...

lol, I’m not going to dox myself right now, but trust me, I know a thing or two about basketball.

I’m not a household name or anything, but I played basketball at a pretty high level and I’ll leave it at that. High enough to know how a lot of these guys are.

During the warmups, Peacock showed teams practicing warmups...the camera then pans to the U.S. team and they're all wearing headphones. No communication. None of the other teams were wearing headphones. Even the W100 team.

Couple of notes…

the US needs to rethink how they approach the 4x1. The Canadians compete together 1-2 a year plus an additional 2 training camps per year. That’s a lot of reps, that’s a lot of familiarization. That’s why they’re consistently one of the best passing teams in the world.

with the Canadians everyone knows and BUYS IN to their role. They know who the big swinging dick is. They know who’s going to lead it off. The know who’s going to run the bend. They know who to put on the second leg. They leave the who’s at the door. They’re a TEAM. The US is 6 individuals who all think they’re the big swinging dick and don’t accept a role.