Official 2022 World Indoors Day 1 Live Discussion Thread

Damn, Tentoglou is jumping big. Olympic champ looks like he's going to have an even better year than 2021. Looking forward to his outdoor jumping. Would love to see some 8.7s + this year.

Some of those fouls looked like they could have been 8.60 at least, which we know he can do. Hopefully the Cuban contingent is healed up and the long jump can get respectable again

Marybeth got as good a start as anyone in the field:

No she didn’t. She maybe got as fast a start, but not as good a start. She is way below her potential. If she’d had as good a start, she would have been well ahead.

That's crazy. MSP got a bad start in the final but in general, her start has been great. It's in the final 10 meters that she's getting run down. No speed endurance

A good lesson there: kicking in a TT is not the same as kicking in a championship race where there will be traffic to work through, and the opponents will be of a higher quality than the domestic elites. Hopefully, this will be a sharp reminder of that as she heads towards World's and Commonwealth's.

So she got as fast of a start but somehow did not meet some subjective aesthetic standard of which you and you alone, the Simon Cowell of sprinting, are the arbiter. Got it.

Use this post to upvote or downvote the commentators on the Peacock stream of the event, Rob Walker (who led the Olympic coverage for UBS) and Hannah England (2011 WC silver in 1500m).

I for one am surprised at how good Hannah England is. So often the former elite athletes are mediocre at commentary...at best.

beats the pants off of ESPN coverage of NCAA.

Your posting doesn’t live up to the quality of your moniker. I don’t think I will spell it out for you, since you have shown no class.

I agree LETS GO BLUE DEVILS

---LHS class of 1987!!

Thanks for the great coverage, guys! Loving the Serbian adventure stories.

Read an article from a few years ago where they say she's 5'1", 98lbs, and can squat 350lb, which I have to assume is a quarter squat, if not that would be well over a world record for her weight, I think.

I am going to kind of agree with you but with this caveat, her start was effective for what she was trying to do in the race.

I think I know who this is and I've watched you're Youtube videos and if this indeed you then you understand the road the MBSP has been on. Marybeth getting back to the level she was on coming out of high school is truly unbelievable.

MBSP is not pushing out of the blocks hard enough and not using the back block hardly at all, which is making her stand up out of the blocks. The reason she is getting away with this is because she weighs 98lbs. But she is driving to 20 to 25 meters but not quite at the angle she should be so it shows up later in the race around 55 meters.

I have two sayings that go hand and hand, "you can't eat an elephant in one sitting", and "how do you eat an elephant, one spoonful at a time". MBSP just took one big spoonful of elephant, but she is coming back for seconds!!

One other thing, while Mikiah Brisco isn't a shoe sponsored athlete because Nike dropped her she is a Tiered athlete and getting support from USATF.

MBSP besides getting her expenses covered to make the trip to Spokane, WA as the number 1 ranked athlete in the field and a ticket to Belgrade, Serbia as a member of team USA and all the gear that goes with being on the team has not received one thin dime from USATF.

Everything that she accomplished getting to the level where she could bring back a medal for team USA was done on her coaches dime!

Agree with all that, and yeah I know about her situation, which makes this bronze huge💪.

That was some good indoor racing👍. I would like to see her 100 race model.

Who is her coach, and where does she train (still in CO?)