Official 2016 Olympic Trials Day 1 Live Discussion Thread

totally man wrote:

Do we not know or not care about women's 800 runners?

Pointless event these days.

In one of the Brazier/Berian threads I said that I didn't think Brazier was a lock at all, but nobody even bothered to respond to me. He's not "done", he's just toast because he peaked exquisitely for NCAAs and wasn't even planning on running the trials until he ran that 1:43 a couple weeks ago. Also keep in mind that that NCAA performance was a massive outlier for him. On his second-best day he can't even beat the best collegiate competition.

Love the USATF website with their 200 splits...Clayton Murphy has some strong wheels there at the end...he's going to make it, barring dumb inexperienced mistake in the next rounds.

Women's 800 totally to form so far. Martinez, Price, Montano, and Ludlow nab the auto spots!

is this confirmed?

Valarie Allman? pretty hot discus thrower

That would be Tynita Butts.

Gia Lewis-Smallwood DNS

"We got a LOT of blondes in this race."

Vessey going home devastated

Sammy Watson third in her heat. Probably won't advance, but great job by the high school star.

Wilson looked good. Good enough, I guess. Watson in 3rd, and it would be cool to see her advance.

Women take top 2 and next fastest 6 times.

Our top 800m women run smarter heats than our top men.

Ajee Wilson wins her heat comfortably from the front. HS phenom Sammy Watson looking awkward and gangly and tripping up Baker, lol.

JOkey jokes wrote:

Our top 800m women run smarter heats than our top men.

You spoke too soon

How does no one know who the announcer is?

I like it! wrote:

Really liking the announcer. Of course it might be compared to the usual crap announcers. Still nice to have someone do a decent job.

Roesler tho... 2:03.55

Roesler pulls a Brazier...devastation will ensue.

I know I just realized that...ah well.