Jeremy Wariner has about as good a shot as any at a WR at world champs.
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Jeremy Wariner has about as good a shot as any at a WR at world champs.
discuss/argue
nope. no faster than 43.3
It all depends on his endurance, yes he could probably coast rounds of 44.50; however, would he still have enough pop for the finals. I doubt it
It's debatable whether Wariner has a better shot than Gay in the 100, given that only the wind gage has defeated Gay. Wariner just ran 43.5, unpushed, on a track substantially slower than Osaka. So I'm guessing that with Meritt and Taylor pushing, if he doesn't have to work too hard in the heats, he takes it down, which IS his stated goal.
Perhaps the more interesting race, though:
Womens 4X400 WR=3:15.17 (USSR, and very likely drugged to the gills)
Best Times this year
Sanya Richards 49.52
Dee Dee Trotter 49.64
Allyson Felix 49.70
Natasha Hastings 49.84
TOTAL 3:18.6
They need to average 0.85 better than their best open time to take it down, which means, on that track, it could be very close. Trotter needs to get back on form, but with Felix improving her PR 0.7 sec in just the last week and Richards having run a full second faster last year, there may be more margin than it seems.
Sure, Wariner has a shot. In fact I'd put his odds of getting the WR at some point in his career at close to even. But, I wouldn't bet on it happening on any particular day. Look at how long it took MJ to get the record. We're talking about a tremendously diificult feat for the greatest 400 runner of all time. So much has to go so perfectly right that I don't think I could ever say "today's the day I expect Wariner to take the record down."
Maybe he does a Kipketer and takes it down in the heats. Make the finals like the last day of the TdF, all ceremony.
sliding down the top 10 rankin wrote:
It all depends on his endurance, yes he could probably coast rounds of 44.50; however, would he still have enough pop for the finals. I doubt it
Wariner PRed at his last two majors. I expect him to PR in Osaka. How quick? Not sure, maybe 43.12 - 43.35 range. Hopefully, the conditions will be conducive to pushing the mark towards the lower end of that range.
Coach D wrote:
It's debatable whether Wariner has a better shot than Gay in the 100, given that only the wind gage has defeated Gay. Wariner just ran 43.5, unpushed, on a track substantially slower than Osaka. So I'm guessing that with Meritt and Taylor pushing, if he doesn't have to work too hard in the heats, he takes it down, which IS his stated goal.
Perhaps the more interesting race, though:
Womens 4X400 WR=3:15.17 (USSR, and very likely drugged to the gills)
Best Times this year
Sanya Richards 49.52
Dee Dee Trotter 49.64
Allyson Felix 49.70
Natasha Hastings 49.84
TOTAL 3:18.6
They need to average 0.85 better than their best open time to take it down, which means, on that track, it could be very close. Trotter needs to get back on form, but with Felix improving her PR 0.7 sec in just the last week and Richards having run a full second faster last year, there may be more margin than it seems.
I wouldn´t say Wariner was unpushed in Stockholm, at least not in the first 300 m. He did, however, run the last 100m 1 sec faster than Clement.