Love her. Hate her. Think what you will. But you've got to admit that was damned impressive. The final will be one on the highlights of the meet.
Love her. Hate her. Think what you will. But you've got to admit that was damned impressive. The final will be one on the highlights of the meet.
kore wrote:
Felix was a relay queen. She was nowhere close to being a GOAT of either 200m and 400m when it comes to time. Her 200m PR is 21.69 and puts her at 8th all time. 400m PR is
49.26 and puts her in #31 in World and #10 in the US.
So? You're missing the point entirely. By McRunner's logic Felix should've been a 47 runner.
How are people getting under 47.6 in the final from that semi? She eased with around 20-30m to go. She said herself. So it was worth 48.1. But she went for it for the first 370m+.
So where is she getting that extra half a second from?
She ran a 49.41 heat and a 48.29 semi. I predict between 47.9 - 48.1 in the final...with Naser in the same ballpark.
Note in the semis, Naser (23.09) & Paulino (23.17) ran faster opening 200s than Sydney (23.43) . But Sydney ran a significantly faster 3rd 100m. In the final I think Naser will go out in sub 23, and she will push the 3rd 100m much harder. It will be down to Sydney whether she follows suit, and this could mean she ties up more at the end. Paulino will be forced to go out hard because of her lane, but she doesn't look quite at her best, and if she slows down expect Anning or AN Other to overtake her.
KerseesCabinet wrote:
How are people getting under 47.6 in the final from that semi? She eased with around 20-30m to go. She said herself. So it was worth 48.1. But she went for it for the first 370m+.
So where is she getting that extra half a second from?
She ran a 49.41 heat and a 48.29 semi. I predict between 47.9 - 48.1 in the final...with Naser in the same ballpark.
Note in the semis, Naser (23.09) & Paulino (23.17) ran faster opening 200s than Sydney (23.43) . But Sydney ran a significantly faster 3rd 100m. In the final I think Naser will go out in sub 23, and she will push the 3rd 100m much harder. It will be down to Sydney whether she follows suit, and this could mean she ties up more at the end. Paulino will be forced to go out hard because of her lane, but she doesn't look quite at her best, and if she slows down expect Anning or AN Other to overtake her.
SML 47.10
SEN 48.20
MP 49.50
Hail Queen Syd wrote:
How do YOU do it? Post after post, thread after thread, day after day, week after week, year after year accusing athletes of doping. I've never seen anyone so obsessive about anything. You probably have over a dozen posts in this thread alone. Not saying anything new. Just repeating what you've already said over and over and over again.
Surely, you must be taking something to have such extraordinary stamina to make tens of thousands of posts accusing athletes of doping. What is it? Caffeine? Something stronger?
It obviously has your attention. So that's a start.