Let's say she receives the baton in the 2nd place, 15 meters behind the 1st place and 15 meters ahead if the 3rd place: will she give her all to get a gold or just jog to protect the silver medal?
She probably doesn't even want to run the mixed as her goal is to win the 400h.
She would definitely start the lap trying to catch up, you never know what will happen. She has enough experience closing out a relay that she will know whether to go full out or not in the final 150-200m. Of course she wants to win the 400mH, but that hasn't stopped her running both relays to the fullest before and she seems to really like running those too.
Because she wants and has the opportunity to win an Olympic medal?
Just a thought about going all out.
have you seen her run....she looks to win, no matter what event
Of course she will. Won't take much for her to win her heat the day after.
The main problem is the relay heat the morning after the hurdles final. The Netherlands might not qualify if they don't have Bol for that one.
It's lame that they changed the rule for this event so that all teams have to run MFMF. It was fun seeing the different strategies teams selected and also big leads getting eaten up when it turned into M vs F.
I think she’ll give her all. SML is going to smoke her in the 400h but Femke is a competitor and will always give her all.
Why wouldn't she go all out? The mixed relay is friday and saturaday. She doesn't run the 400h final until the following thursday.
She's a lock for silver either way.
This question shows the difference between Sydney and Femke. US fans have grown so used to seeing...no let me rephrase...so used to not seeing Sydney compete because she is saving her legs, that they cannot understand why Femke would not do the same. Some athletes, like Femke, have a true passion for running and asking them to sit out races would probably be soul destroying for them. Some athletes, particularly those that have been regarded as generational talents when they were young, are probably the opposite.
rojo wrote:
Why wouldn't she go all out? The mixed relay is friday and saturaday. She doesn't run the 400h final until the following thursday.
She's a lock for silver either way.
Yep, was going to say the same thing. It doesn’t matter what she does in the relay, she’s not getting gold in the 400mH, so might as well try for one in the relay.
why oh why wrote:
This question shows the difference between Sydney and Femke. US fans have grown so used to seeing...no let me rephrase...so used to not seeing Sydney compete because she is saving her legs, that they cannot understand why Femke would not do the same. Some athletes, like Femke, have a true passion for running and asking them to sit out races would probably be soul destroying for them. Some athletes, particularly those that have been regarded as generational talents when they were young, are probably the opposite.
Syd has competed plenty this season.
Get some new material.
Relative to her history yes, but still poor relative to others. Anyways this is not to say the strategy is wrong but that asking such a question about an athlete like Femke seems odd.
Femke's Problem wrote:
She probably doesn't even want to run the mixed as her goal is to win the 400h.
This is incomparable ignorance. The Dutch are not all stars who train all over the country and are patched together on short notice for a relay. They emphasize the mixed relay all year long. That's why Bol and Klaver ran both the heat and final of the mixed at European Championships, while skipping the women's 4 x 400. The angst and dismay was evident on all of their faces when they failed to win the mixed at either the World Relays or European Championships.
Last year at World Championships, a female reporter asked Bol after her 4 x 400 rally, "Did you get everything you came for?"
Bol quickly replied, "No, we also wanted the mixed."
In 2021 it was woman/man/woman/man. The Dutch probably would have won gold if it was the other way around. After that race Bol lamented that she could have done more. She gave a small lead to the anchor Ramsey Angela but it wasn't enough.
There's no chance she wants to leave Paris thinking she could have done more in the mixed relay. The top male Dutch 400 meter runner Liemarvin Bonevacia is 35. This is his last chance.
It's kind of an American way of looking at things to say that the mixed relay is a second rate medal. You guys average over two dozen T&F medals per Olympics so you have the luxury of rating them. The Netherlands averages less than one T&F medal so each one is valuable.
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Let’s say she is in FOURTH place and TWENTY meters out of first place.
On one hand, good for her and the Netherlands.
On the other hand, is there a reason that the USA doesn't field an unbeatable team? I suppose the athletes that would constitute an unbeatable team don't want to run it.
Bol inspite of her main event runs the mixed relay for her teammates and country.
USA has more chances of getting DQed in relay.
My prediction is that she'll jog a 47 split so that she doesn't gas herself before the hurdles.