Jefferson-Wooden (10.75) takes down Alfred (10.77) at 2025 Prefontaine Classic as Sha'Carri Richardson is DFL - 11.19

Well I did pick Richardson to finish 6-8th position. She did me even one better by finishing dead last. Glad Jefferson-Wooden won.

I wonder what practices have looked like with Melissa Jefferson-Wooden, Sha’Carri Richardson, and TeeTee Terry training together this year. MJW has been spectacular the entire outdoor season so far, SCR has been awful, and TTT has been up and down. Makes for an interesting group dynamic.

If this race had the conditions of the other w100, 1.70 rather than -1.5 we would have seen some spectacular marks. The adjustment is about 0.17 to 0.18. So we might have had 10.57 and 10.59 up front and even SCR would have been close to eleven flat. Ta-Lau a PB (?) 10.72.

This is SCR's first real race and it was 0.05 to 0.20 faster than I expected and I picked her for last in that stellar field which might contain almost all the 100m Finalists. On average I expect the wind to be about 0.05 to 0.08 , given that, take 0.12 seconds off everyone's time to assess the quality of the results. Top to bottom the best event of the day, with the top two having historically great marks

Well if our country let us dope with impunity like the Caribbean’s in the sprints and China, Russia , Iran and dprk in everything else this wouldn’t be surprising.
but Alfred will Be even more jacked up by WC’s and run 10.6

Can someone who knows sprints explain why Richardson is so inconsistent? It seems like she has more really bad races than any other top sprinter.

Shacarri is clean again. Don't worry, she'll be juicing again to make the worlds team and be at the #1 level by worlds. Ugh.

Yes, it was a high quality field for sure. Regardless of time conversion, Sha’Carri finished over 0.4 behind the top two. She has a lot of ground to make up between now and September if she’s going to successfully defend her world title.

Silicone goes home devastated!

Little doubt they were the top two going into the race

Racing is part mental. She and Elaine Thompson-Herarah are the two most physically gifted female sprinters currently. But while ETH has the mental focus and drive to produce her best always - barring injury, Richardson has never developed this mental focus. Until she does, she will continue to lack consistency and it will be reflected in her performance.

Yes, Melissa MF jefferson really threw down and took down Julien Alfred in a sick race. Beast

Very few noticed the Prefontaine "Promotional Women's 100 meters" where Jacious Sears ran 10.85, Aleia Hobbs ran 10.90, and Thelma Davies ran 10.96 under wind legal conditions.

What is your definition of physically gifted ? Alfred seems waaaaay more like ETH in that regard.

She has been injured and mostly absent from racing (usually she hits he ground running first week of April and races pretty extensively)

sucks when it happens but I think she can get into shape with another month or two of training

she is still young, better luck next season

Owners of the website using the the DFL acronym in the thread title. Oh, well, not unexpected 🙄