She ran a 22.06 in Bermuda two weeks ago, there's no need to act like the sky is falling when we're still a month out from USA champs and 2.5 months from Worlds
She was coached to run like that at UK. Watch her HS meets. She used to run with a more conventional arm swing. Now she's changed it, and you know... she's significantly faster and a world champ.
She’s not a 100 sprinter. What matters now is how she does in the 200. I’m sure she’ll be fine.
That said, Tamari Davis has a much larger upside, in the 100 for sure, and possibly the 200 in a few years. Davis is also nearly 4 years younger than Steiner. Davis is the next big thing for American sprinters and a medal in the WC 100 by Davis would not surprise me at all. Not to derail a Steiner thread, but the WC 100 American team will be ScR, Davis, and Hobbs.
She’s not a 100 sprinter. What matters now is how she does in the 200. I’m sure she’ll be fine.
That said, Tamari Davis has a much larger upside, in the 100 for sure, and possibly the 200 in a few years. Davis is also nearly 4 years younger than Steiner. Davis is the next big thing for American sprinters and a medal in the WC 100 by Davis would not surprise me at all. Not to derail a Steiner thread, but the WC 100 American team will be ScR, Davis, and Hobbs.
Terry will also contend for a spot. She’s had good early season form.
The style has got to go. Sure, she has improved tremendously since going to Kentucky, but so has just about everyone going to Kentucky. She is a great talent who, physics and history tell, would run faster with a conventional arm pattern. She creates significantly more rotation, wind resistance, and muscle fatigue from that form. But to say that she has no potential in the 100m is absurd. She ran 10.90 in college to go with 21.77. 10.90x2=21.80. That's a pretty conventional multiple. She is better in the 2 than the 1 but a 2x multiple is nearly identical to Bolt, so don't tell me that she is not pretty close to the same quality athlete (but higher in rankings in the 200) in the 100m as the 200m. Of course, she has medal chances in both 200 and 400, as well as 4x1 and 4x4, so there's a good argument to say she should go 2/4. But tell me one non-racial reason that while other 10.90 collegiates go on to run 10.7-10.8, she can't.
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But tell me one non-racial reason that while other 10.90 collegiates go on to run 10.7-10.8, she can't.
Thank you. People act like whites are inherently slower, as if it’s some sort of genetic trait. Blatant racism. We would never say (at least decent people wouldn’t) that blacks are inherently inferior because fewer of them are in the board room or whatever. Race/genetics is the easy answer, not necessarily the right one.
But tell me one non-racial reason that while other 10.90 collegiates go on to run 10.7-10.8, she can't.
Thank you. People act like whites are inherently slower, as if it’s some sort of genetic trait. Blatant racism. We would never say (at least decent people wouldn’t) that blacks are inherently inferior because fewer of them are in the board room or whatever. Race/genetics is the easy answer, not necessarily the right one.
Hey xz and Weird Al, f your race shlt.
The OP never mentioned race.
Here’s a “non-racial” reason: because she hasn’t shown the form necessary to overcome the deficiencies in her 10.9. She can be very good at speed, but blocks and early/mid accel are not good, and imo have shown mo sign of improvement.
You need either rangey power or brute force to get out of blocks and early accel, and she has neither. She is not a natural brute, so she has to use rangey power—and for that, she needs a different arm swing. She needs different action at the shoulders to permit a different head position to permit a different torso angle and foot plant, to allow the contact time for power delivery while leaving the body in favorable position for optimizing the subsequent footstrike.
In short, she has no blocks, and no drive phase.
She is much better-suited to the 200, and possibly the 400 if her energy systems permit (which it seems they do).
Better to go with her natural talents than to keep trying to force a square peg into a round hole.
As for her 200, yes it’s early. I see her having an energy issue, and that’s about it. It might be as simple as tapering off a heavy load. We will see…
Also, she can be GREAT for the 4x1 relay, as all legs save leadoff call for accel from a more upright position, and don’t use blocks—and, she can clearly run and accelerate around a turn, if needed.
Thank you. People act like whites are inherently slower, as if it’s some sort of genetic trait. Blatant racism. We would never say (at least decent people wouldn’t) that blacks are inherently inferior because fewer of them are in the board room or whatever. Race/genetics is the easy answer, not necessarily the right one.
Hey xz and Weird Al, f your race shlt.
The OP never mentioned race.
Here’s a “non-racial” reason: because she hasn’t shown the form necessary to overcome the deficiencies in her 10.9. She can be very good at speed, but blocks and early/mid accel are not good, and imo have shown mo sign of improvement.
You need either rangey power or brute force to get out of blocks and early accel, and she has neither. She is not a natural brute, so she has to use rangey power—and for that, she needs a different arm swing. She needs different action at the shoulders to permit a different head position to permit a different torso angle and foot plant, to allow the contact time for power delivery while leaving the body in favorable position for optimizing the subsequent footstrike.
In short, she has no blocks, and no drive phase.
She is much better-suited to the 200, and possibly the 400 if her energy systems permit (which it seems they do).
Better to go with her natural talents than to keep trying to force a square peg into a round hole.
As for her 200, yes it’s early. I see her having an energy issue, and that’s about it. It might be as simple as tapering off a heavy load. We will see…
I never accused the OP of racism, and wasn’t referring to him at all. I was making a general comment about most people who assume whites can’t sprint. I wasn’t even thinking of the OP.
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