Same. World indoors, outdoors, and Euro medals this year. Incredible. Much more compelling than one-race Syd.
I enjoy Bol and do wish Syd would race more, but Bol won't be more compelling to me until she beats Syd one on one in a big meet. Not saying it can't happen, it just hasn't yet.
Crazy that the best 400m runners in the world are not indeed running the 400, and Miller-Uibo has said she is done with the event.
Would be fun to see the likes of McLaughlin, Bol, and maybe Steiner or Mu against Eid Naser in Budapest next year... hopefully the schedule permits it.
Crazy that the best 400m runners in the world are not indeed running the 400, and Miller-Uibo has said she is done with the event.
Would be fun to see the likes of McLaughlin, Bol, and maybe Steiner or Mu against Eid Naser in Budapest next year... hopefully the schedule permits it.
I think McLaughlin, Steiner (Long Season College until Worlds) And Mu have shut it down for this year.
I did not see Bol or Warholm in the prelim results?
The competition has a rankings system where the top athletes (top 8 I think) get a bye straight through to the semi finals. Not necessarily fair to the whole field but perhaps it helps attract more of the best athletes in Europe to compete after the Worlds by lessening the race load.
Femke has a good shot at gold now in the open 400. Cant wait to see the vid of 49.44.
Sydney can run a 48 but if she wont run the 400, who cares what her potential is.
Yeah, I guess it depends on if McLaughlin will indeed move to the 400 flat next year as Kersee has said or will wait to do that. Also whether or not Miller-Uibo was serious about not racing the 400 anymore, she says stuff like that all the time (about wanting to focus on the 200 and doing multi-events, but she never follows through).
The wildcard to me is Eid Naser though. She ran 48.14 while on drugs, but the year before that massive drop she had also ran 49.08. Will be interesting to see how she runs after two years with no races and without that supplemental support.
Absolute dominance. The first half of the double is complete.
Easily the most compelling and likable track athlete in the world right now.
I love that somehow this is getting thumbs down - presumably for the "compelling and likeable" part.
But in a way I'm finding myself agreeing with you. Firstly she is a hell of a lot more likeable than her primary competitor Scowley McLaughlin who despite being better looks like she's miserable almost all of the time out there, secondly she really has a carefree innocence to her and desire to put herself out of her comfort zone (like this, running the 400m) like almost nobody else and finally she doesn't take herself too seriously and just sounds like a nice and relatable person as evidenced by her interviews etc.
I don't know what isn't compelling and likeable about all of that - I guess she isn't American so doesn't qualify for that accolade.
What I know for sure is that 2 of the worlds best female quarter milers are running the 400mH as their primary event and after tonight she, like SML would have seriously pushed Miller-Uibo to the brink in Eugene.