HardLoper wrote:
JOkey jokes wrote:Our top 800m women run smarter heats than our top men.
You spoke too soon
There is a difference between running slow and running dumb. Brazier and Roesler just got tired. Their losses had nothing to do with decisions they made in the race. It had to do with whatever they had left to power down the straightaway. Not like Solomon
Wow, Roesler is done. It always shocks me that the people in the later rounds don't run as fast as possible to maximize their time qualifiers. Poor tactics, honestly.
Roesler looking doubtful for final.
Someone in another thread said Vessey is injured. Anyone know what kind of injury?
JOkey jokes wrote:
So far the highlights of this meet are
1) The announcer on the live stream is pretty darn good and
2) Berian ran a great (smart) heat
I liked when the announcer said "lotta blondes in this race"
ROESLER GOES HOME DEVASTATED.
THE USA IS SET TO SEND THE CRAPPIEST TEAM EVER TO THE OLYMPICS!
Raevyn Rogers looks ready to do battle.
Wouldn't call Wilson, Martinez, Montano (perhaps substitute one for Ludlow) a bad team. Quite a good team actually.
AMAZING GRACE!
Running prelims is so much harder for the "favorites". They have to run a tactical race. They want to run fast, but not too fast...just fast enough to qualify. They're trying to conserve energy for later races, and that's extremely difficult and risky.
"No name" runners just go all out, and it gives them an advantage. Obviously this hurts them in later rounds, but for a lot of these runners...their goal is to make the semis
Great finish by Kate Grace, moving up from 5th to 1st on the homestretch!
any distance events today?
They should just run a hard race. What energy are they "conserving?"
True, but if our "best" can't even make prelims in the trials we have no chance in Oly.
RIPBrazier wrote:
Running prelims is so much harder for the "favorites". They have to run a tactical race. They want to run fast, but not too fast...just fast enough to qualify. They're trying to conserve energy for later races, and that's extremely difficult and risky.
"No name" runners just go all out, and it gives them an advantage. Obviously this hurts them in later rounds, but for a lot of these runners...their goal is to make the semis
444444444444 wrote:
any distance events today?
Oh, only the men's 10000m final.
Based on what's happened today, I look for Rupp, True, and Mead to lead for the first 24.5 laps and then get pipped on the home straight.
Wariner up next
I always forget he still runs
totally man wrote:
Based on what's happened today, I look for Rupp, True, and Mead to lead for the first 24.5 laps and then get pipped on the home straight.
Not completely out of the question.
Also, Norwood, a 45.00 guy just pulled up in his heat with a hammy. 400m team starting to look rough now too
HardLoper wrote:
Wariner up next
I always forget he still runs
Me too, but I hope he does well. Sucked to see Norwood pull up; long season for a lot of these athletes it seems.
I literally cannot believe Wariner still runs. Like how?
Clerk wrote:
ijenns318 wrote:Anyone have a stream that isn't nascar?
Not unless you stream from NBC itself
http://stream.nbcolympics.com/track-and-field-trials-day-1-hostIt may come on TV later, but unless it does, only the NBC stream will show the meet.
It isn't showing anything currently, not even an empty video.