Yes, I know everyone here hates Sha'carri so spare me all the commentary about her personality and so on and on. I agree she needs to grow the hell up.
I want to know what you really think about her running (minus the prefontaine race) Do you think she has the potential to beat the jamaicans in the future? Is her start fixable? Is her top end speed really that good? What makes her stand out?
Genuine answers.
Her topend is very very good but still inferior to elaine, her start is fixable and one she fixes it she will be running 10.6 consistently.
I think the pre race was all about nerves she doesn't preform as well with major competition, if this problem isn't solved it could definitely prevent her from medaling in major competitions. If she can run a good race in Eugene she can beat shelly but not a healthy elaine.
No woman is going to run 10.6 consistently. Let's not get carried away with the recent trends. Everything tends to drift back to the beginning...to wonderful normalcy.
The other day when I told someone that Thompson-Herah would be in the 10.7s at Paris he acted as if I were nuts. That's how addicted everyone is to one direction only. It's like regression doesn't exist.
This has nothing to do with the question asked. He at least answered the question.
She's proven herself to be a consistent 10.75 to 10.70 sprinter. Unfortunately for her, she's up against a 10.70 to 10.65 sprinter (SAFP) and a 10.60 to 10.55 sprinter (ETH).
She has basic 10.60 potential if she works on her start and tightens up her technique, however people who assume she can fix her start in a year are being unrealistic. ETH hasn't been a consistently decent starter until this year. Very few women's sprinters are consistently good starters outside of SAFP and Ta Lou.
She can beat Jackson, whose start is almost as terrible and doesn't have quite as much top end speed. She can maybe beat SAFP if SAFP doesn't get a good start (I say maybe, because SAFP had a bad start in Tokyo and still ran 10.74 into a headwind) . She's not beating ETH for the foreseeable future.
As for the mental aspect, I think Richardson has a block where SAFP is concerned. She's been constantly compared to her for the past 2 years and would have grown up witnessing SAFP be the dominant force in women's sprinting. She even took credit for SAFP's early season 10.63, which obviously betrayed the fact that she was hyper-focused on her as her chief rival. The fact that her current Twitter profile features SAFP smiling in the background all but confirms that the Jamaican is living rent-free inside her head.
I totally love Sha'carri. She will only beat the Jamaicans when they're subjected to the same testing regimen as she is.
I think a lot is being made of one race. Getting a month off like that is rough. Everyone else raced and stayed sharp. No idea if she can beat the Jamaicans or not, that's why we hold the races.
But I can see her getting back on track (no pun intended). 2022 is a big year so she will have incentive to get her training together.
her start is appalling, but the effect of this on times is over rated.
her time (after poor start) to achieve a high cruise and hold it is spectacular and completely incorrect for her body form = drugs.
She's run like that since she was a kid. Slow start, relying on top end. Weird. I guess She's been taking drugs her whole life. Anyways, if anyone is doping it's the jamaicans. And I'm being honest, those are crazy fast times back to back, especially for safp at 34 years old and after pregnancy. Elaine don't get me started with the time drops. Very suspicious.
Great take!! Do you think she would be better in the 200m?
If her start improves I can see the same thing. Her top end is impressive but I think it's going to take a long time to fix that start. Maybe she should switch on over to Bob Kersee. He really helped Sydney improve her technique.
Yeah. It's this stupid fight between the Jamaicans and Sha'carri. It's unbearable. I wouldn't lose sleep over a spoiled 21 year old girl talking trash. I doubt the Elaine and Shelly care. Everyone else should also chill the heck out.
I'm eager to see her 2022 season. She's a very gifted runner but will she be able to rise to the occasion at the world championship? Running fast at slow meets doesn't really matter.
Hope she gets some quality folks in her inner circle that will be positive influences on her. She’s likely not had the best role models, based on her behavior.
Trackandfield4839 wrote:
Great take!! Do you think she would be better in the 200m?
Not really. She might do as well or better than SAFP, which is to say she can post the odd fast time and challenge for a medal or even win when the top dogs are off form. But she'd have to develop an actual race strategy, outside of just running as fast as she can. She has great top end speed, but she reaches it so late in the 100 that speed endurance isn't really an issue - wouldn't have that luxury in the 200, since her current (inefficient) race model consists of using up a lot of energy to get up to top speed. She's also much shorter than all the elite 200 runners and the women's field is more stacked on that side than the 100 - ETH, Jackson, Thomas, Asher-Smith, Miller-Uibo would all eat her lunch.
Awsi Dooger wrote:
No woman is going to run 10.6 consistently. Let's not get carried away with the recent trends. Everything tends to drift back to the beginning...to wonderful normalcy.
The other day when I told someone that Thompson-Herah would be in the 10.7s at Paris he acted as if I were nuts. That's how addicted everyone is to one direction only. It's like regression doesn't exist.
Amazing to think that 10.72 - Richardson's PB - is now considered "regression" for ETH...
Trackandfield4839 wrote:
She's run like that since she was a kid. Slow start, relying on top end. Weird. I guess She's been taking drugs her whole life. Anyways, if anyone is doping it's the jamaicans. And I'm being honest, those are crazy fast times back to back, especially for safp at 34 years old and after pregnancy. Elaine don't get me started with the time drops. Very suspicious.
I am not going to get into whether or not I think she is actually doping, I just want to point out that the "oh they have been running fast and running like that since they were young is not a defense against doping. That was the defense many used on Marion Jones "oh shes not doping, look how fast she was in high school, she would have had to be doping since she was 14" blah blah....turns out she was a doper.
She'll look like Lizzo in a year
Ok..... Should we be questioning bolt and every fast teenager just because Marion doped? To me, it's more concerning that Elaine and Shelly are running like Marion. Actually, even better than Marion. 10.60s, 10.50s after rounds in Tokyo?? And back to back at different diamond leauge meets while everyone regressed. I doubt Sha'carris been doping since she was in the ghetto in oak cliffs, Dallas lol but everyone is entitled to their opinion.
Marion jones wasn't that fast she ran 11.47 with a 1.5 wind.
Here for the trainwreck wrote:
Awsi Dooger wrote:
No woman is going to run 10.6 consistently. Let's not get carried away with the recent trends. Everything tends to drift back to the beginning...to wonderful normalcy.
The other day when I told someone that Thompson-Herah would be in the 10.7s at Paris he acted as if I were nuts. That's how addicted everyone is to one direction only. It's like regression doesn't exist.
Amazing to think that 10.72 - Richardson's PB - is now considered "regression" for ETH...
Also amazing to think that we can only regress. Maybe a correction is due, but by that idiot’s logic, the pro men will be back in the 4:50s for a mile soon.