Asher-Smith ran 10.84 (SB) > 10.89 > 10.83 (=NR) in Eugene, which doesn't look like someone who's in terminal decline. But she does seem worryingly physically fragile over the past couple of years.
She's not going to get close to Arron's 10.73 or Schipper's 21.63, but I can see her breaking both her national records and picking up further global medals. ETH and SAFP have to 'age out' one day, right?!
More concerned with the condition of the British sprinters in general. Cramp complaints are now very common within this team - Dina A/S Neita Hughes (complained in Eugene)
Recovery process is going very wrong, or they are abusing the body with substances that run the risk of these cramps arising?
No, the woman who is only 26 years old and just won a bronze medal in the 200 at the world championships less than a month ago is not done.
She's a whole 8 years younger than SAFP. 2.5 years younger than ETH, and 6 months younger than Jackson.
Maybe needs a break - trying to do Eugene, Birmingham, and Munich in under a month is a massive ask, particularly someone who was already nursing an injury. But time off and a less crowded schedule in 2023 and should still be a finalist in Paris. Medals competition will be fierce but she proved doubters wrong this year.
She's got a poor record at recent championships, including the Olympics, World's and now the Europeans.
I wonder if its partly mental, as she seems happiest when the accolades are flowing, and Daryl Neita is challenging her domestically now.
I find the "bubbly", boastful persona tefious to listen to in interviews.
She just won Bronze at Worlds in the 200 in a stacked field and finished 4th in the 100 behind the Jamaicans, 0.02 behind ETH
I’d say she’s doing pretty well in spite of the injury woes
And then half pulled up in the relay at the worlds, losing the team the chance of a medal, missed the Commonwealth and again half pulled up in the 100m at the Europeans, finishing last. Not due to injury but due to cramp.
My comment above stands. Not all of these failures are caused by injury. And as usual dominating the post race interviews while her medal winning teammate barely gets the chance to speak. Narcissist? Definieit something going on.
And as usual dominating the post race interviews while her medal winning teammate barely gets the chance to speak. Narcissist? Definieit something going on.
I think this is a British media, rather than a DAH, issue. It's they who continue to make her 'the story', rather than her pushing herself to the front. Once they latch onto an athlete they'll keep their teeth in regardless of that athlete's current form. The BBC have to justify all those expensive montage puff pieces somehow!
The headline for the 100m finals was, almost literally, "silver and bronze for men as Asher-Smith pulls up". I feel rather sorry for Neita: constantly sandwiched between DAH and her mini-me Lansiquot (both nice, attractive, media-trained, suburban South London girls who are graduates of the King's College Performance Programme).
Neita isn't as media-friendly or 'interview-safe' and gets squeezed out. This is sort of understandable in the 'old normal' where DAH is the alpha, but looks weird when DAH's basically a DNF and Neita's the medalist.