He was injured yes, but that was fairly recent like a couple months back, so it’s not like he didn’t train at all after the Olympics. He also ran 49’s during heats seemingly effortlessly. But in his interview, he said something about lactate building up and that he just couldn’t keep going, and that three races he suspected would be risky. But if he wasn’t actually re-injured, how does he go from where he was just a few months back to like finishing last?
He was injured yes, but that was fairly recent like a couple months back, so it’s not like he didn’t train at all after the Olympics. He also ran 49’s during heats seemingly effortlessly. But in his interview, he said something about lactate building up and that he just couldn’t keep going, and that three races he suspected would be risky. But if he wasn’t actually re-injured, how does he go from where he was just a few months back to like finishing last?
I’m really not sure what’s not to understand. He was injured less than 7 weeks ago, and presumably missed a fair bit of time right when it’s probably most important to be getting good training. He ran 49.34 (SB) in the heats, no problem. He ran 48.00 (SB) in the semis—wow, could he have made it back to top form? He tried to run 46-flat or something in the final, going out like gangbusters and leading the first 200, and discovered he wasn’t ready to do so the hard way, fading to 48.42. This makes perfect sense to me.
If he wanted to go for third place, he could have relaxed and gotten third place. He wanted to go for the win, and found out he wasn't in shape to run the race that would win.
He was injured yes, but that was fairly recent like a couple months back, so it’s not like he didn’t train at all after the Olympics. He also ran 49’s during heats seemingly effortlessly. But in his interview, he said something about lactate building up and that he just couldn’t keep going, and that three races he suspected would be risky. But if he wasn’t actually re-injured, how does he go from where he was just a few months back to like finishing last?
It's called being race rusty.
3 hard 400H in 3 days against the best in the world, when you haven't raced anywhere near that hard in 10 months. He would have to have run a phenomenal time to win (under 46.2) He went out hard and tried maintain his normal race pattern (13 steps) but his body was unable to do it.
Warhol is amazing and he will be back. Expect more exciting races from him, Santos and Benjamin.
You can literally see where he hit the wall. He just ran out of steam. The conditioning just wasn't there for a third/faster race.
This does not detract from last year. He's human. He got injured. I respect that he showed up to try.
At first I thought that he clipped a hurdle really badly and that it messed him up. The replay showed a clip but not anything I think would throw him off.
He just ran out of gas. Maybe the training was okay, but race intensity is still very hard to come by during training much less 3 straight days of it.
Getting through 3 races in 4 days is awfully tough without a base of training. That lack of a base finally caught up with him in the final especially when he was going full gas.
On the last hurdle on the last turn, you can see his right leg hit the ground funny and his knee buckles outward. After that, he started to nosedive. I think he did hurt himself but doesn't want to admit that he had crappy form on that hurdle.
You can literally see where he hit the wall. He just ran out of steam. The conditioning just wasn't there for a third/faster race.
This does not detract from last year. He's human. He got injured. I respect that he showed up to try.
At first I thought that he clipped a hurdle really badly and that it messed him up. The replay showed a clip but not anything I think would throw him off.
He just ran out of gas. Maybe the training was okay, but race intensity is still very hard to come by during training much less 3 straight days of it.
as I recall he really staggered coming off hurdle 8 and he was done
He was injured yes, but that was fairly recent like a couple months back, so it’s not like he didn’t train at all after the Olympics. He also ran 49’s during heats seemingly effortlessly. But in his interview, he said something about lactate building up and that he just couldn’t keep going, and that three races he suspected would be risky. But if he wasn’t actually re-injured, how does he go from where he was just a few months back to like finishing last?
It's called being race rusty.
3 hard 400H in 3 days against the best in the world, when you haven't raced anywhere near that hard in 10 months. He would have to have run a phenomenal time to win (under 46.2) He went out hard and tried maintain his normal race pattern (13 steps) but his body was unable to do it.
Warhol is amazing and he will be back. Expect more exciting races from him, Santos and Benjamin.
Three hard 400H in FOUR days! Still, the WA schedule seems idiotic when considering the need for rest days between rounds or events, or scheduling open events during the multi-events (when athletes could participate in an open event after their multi), or stacking sprints or distance events on top of each preventing an athlete from a double or even a triple. Adding another day to the schedule might help. WMA Masters is notorious for this. In the past at one of their World Masters Championship meets they scheduled the preliminaries AND the semis of the 400mH on the same day. Go figure.
Even the best get beat. Not much to understand. It's what's great about our sport. He can't say he would have been better had they passed him the ball more, or blocked for him, or helped pitching.. nope. The gun went off and he was not his best and he got toasted.
You can't do a lot of hard training when you have a hamstring injury. Hamstrings don't heal quickly and you can't risk much speed while recovering. So, he was not fit.