Worlds bronze and left off relay. Was that the difference?
Ever since Cravon Gillespie and his antics the relay got good sense and made relay camp mandatory. If you didn’t attend you would not be in the relay finals. No exceptions.
Worlds bronze and left off relay. Was that the difference?
Ever since Cravon Gillespie and his antics the relay got good sense and made relay camp mandatory. If you didn’t attend you would not be in the relay finals. No exceptions.
The problem with Gillespie was that he was slow. You don't solve that problem by putting a slower runner on the team (Hall) because he attended camp.
A fast runner might or might not screw up a handoff, but he at least gives you a chance to run your best. A slow runner is going to be slow.
The USA men's target time should have been 37 low. They ran 37.10 to win in Doha.
The women ran 41.14 tonight, which means a good men's leg should be just about one full second faster than his counterpart women's. Hall was only 0.74 faster than Prandini.
In the women's 100 meters, Jamaica won gold, silver, and bronze, and their top two finishers were .55 ahead of the two Americans in the final. In the 4x100, Jamaica came in second, with all of their best runners on the relay. In the men's 100 meters, the US won gold, silver, and bronze, and they also came in second in the 4x100 relay (albeit our first and third place finishers didn't run in the relay). A bit ironic. Two things led to the women winning: very good passes and Prandini's out of her mind third leg; one thing led to the men missing the gold, a terrible final pass.