I think she just gave it everything. A touch of the good ‘ol 400 flu. Even Sydney can get it.
I think she just gave it everything. A touch of the good ‘ol 400 flu. Even Sydney can get it.
Bol is 6ft tall. Those hurdles are like a speed bump for her.
She beat 5 mens' times from the 400m hurdles heats, and beat 2 mens' times from the semifinals. Best athlete at this competition.
I know the women have shorter hurdles, but her time puts her in the top 200 times for MEN in 2022!
We're in East European women territory here. This record is 0.9 seconds quicker than anybody else has ever run. Marta Koch's 400 flat record, that everyone is certain isn't clean, is 0.76 quicker than the next woman on the list who is probably clean (Miller-Uibo). If McLaughlin was from any other country, every thread would be about how she's dirty. I hope everyone remembers this and starts to give athletes from the rest of the world the benefit of the doubt it when they have stellar performances
Based on the World Athletics scoring tables, her 50.68 is worth 1312 points. Here’s how that score compares to the other women’s sprint records:
10.49 = 1314 points
12.20 = 1261 points
21.34 = 1308 points
47.60 = 1304 points
Amazing!!
No one gets the benefit of the doubt.
The only way I can think to put this in perspective, aside from comparisons to the flat 400, is this: if this race had been run in July of 2019, Femke Bol’s run for second place would have broken Pechonkina’s 16 year-old world record by 0.07 seconds.
Sydney beat Bol by over a second and a half.
She was only 2.26 seconds slower than what the reigning men's World Record holder ran two days ago.
And you all think women need to be protected from the high-T ladies.
Waiting to hear from that guy who always picks Femke Bol to win. Femke is great, may well end up as the 2nd best ever in her event, but ... she doesn't have any more chance of beating Syd than Syd does of beating Rai.
Do you not realize that 2.26 seconds over 400 meters is a huge difference at the elite level?
Her coach is Bobby Kersee. It is what it is.
This is what happens when you combine amazing talent with a bulletproof doping program.
The difference between men in women across all events is consistently 9+ to 10+ % difference.
What is the percentage difference between her world record of 50.68 and Warholm's record of 45.94? Like 10-ish percent, right.
astro wrote:
No one gets the benefit of the doubt.
Ha! Tell that to semihaze!
Definitely still trying to wrap my head around the post race “celebration”… no one can know what that feels like and it does feel trivial to try to… but what was going on there?
She could easily go 48.2 or better rn in the flat 400 and I wouldn’t be surprised if she could dip under 22 seconds in the 200m. Any event she wants to focus on she will break records just wait
Ha, same question asked here...
In 1936 Glenn Hardin ran 50.6 over 36" hurdles, on dirt track. Maybe this 50.68 (30") is about where the record ought to be? (Warholmesque, but not Beamonesque?).... Anyway, time
to raise women's 400H to 33" (and 100H to 36").
If she can dominate the 400 hurdles until the next Olympics, what kind of endorsement money and appearance money do you think she would be earning over the next few years?
How set for life would she be by the end of 2024?
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