What happened to Brianna Rollins this year?

BTW she's not the only one...Sally Pearson has not been stellar this year, and just ran a 13.19 in europe.

THIRTEEN.19

She came in second.

Injured? Sure. Not recovering well/quickly? Sure.

Her high school coach was quoted as saying Brianna always had issues focusing on track due to boyfriend distractions -- apparently she was a bit boy crazy in high school and this affected her academics and her running... her college coach struggled at times with her focus and getting her to invest 100% in workouts, and getting her to realize how much potential she had if she'd only stay focused and really commit to her craft -- early on she had issues where at the slightest bit of pain or discomfort she'd want to quit an interval/set... she now has a boyfriend who is a bit of a tool, hopefully this won't keep her from fulfilling her amazing potential... going from a 12.2x to a 12.8x at USAs is a bit of a drop off,

Short hurdles are very unpredictable. Rarely do you see year to year consistency. It's a very difficult event. Very prone to injury and just not easy at all to maintain dominance over a long period of time.

It's a biomechanically difficult task for the human body. Sprinting full speed and leaping every 10 meters is just not something the body is meant to do.

Loot wrote:

Short hurdles are very unpredictable. Rarely do you see year to year consistency. It's a very difficult event. Very prone to injury and just not easy at all to maintain dominance over a long period of time.

It's a biomechanically difficult task for the human body. Sprinting full speed and leaping every 10 meters is just not something the body is meant to do.

You're right about everything except for your last sentence. We don't leap over hurdles, we run them. Spacing is less than 10m as well. Sorry to nitpick about the "leaping" part but it's a hurdler-thing. You don't jump them or leap them, you run them.

The Swoosh wrote:

You're right about everything except for your last sentence. We don't leap over hurdles, we run them. Spacing is less than 10m as well. Sorry to nitpick about the "leaping" part but it's a hurdler-thing. You don't jump them or leap them, you run them.

Bingo.

Loot wrote:

Short hurdles are very unpredictable. Rarely do you see year to year consistency. It's a very difficult event. Very prone to injury and just not easy at all to maintain dominance over a long period of time.

It's a biomechanically difficult task for the human body. Sprinting full speed and leaping every 10 meters is just not something the body is meant to do.

but the facts say different

there's been plenty of consistent dominant hurdlers

On the juice last year, she improves dramatically. Off of it this year, she regresses.

She's so hot that she keeps melting the track, it's started to slow her down because she can't get enough purchase off her footstrike. Basically.

She looked rather soft lining up next to Lolo. Not that that is a bad thing, unless winning races is the only measure of attractiveness.

I'd say that not running a full indoor and outdoor season has affected her. She had that luxury in college and now she has to adjust to the rhythm of a pofessional athlete's schedule. I see the same in english gardner and some of the male sprinters. This year was an off tear for most of the major names. I think she will be ok next year with it being a major champship year.

"going from a 12.2x to a 12.8x at USAs is a bit of a drop off"

This year's "drop off" is just the reverse of last year's "meteoric rise", and took the same amount of time, too.

Amazing how that works, isn't it?

Boyfriend, blah, blah...b.s.

bearer of bad wrote:

On the juice last year, she improves dramatically. Off of it this year, she regresses.

I'll admit i know very little about the hurdles but random allegations aren't good for the sport.

Were people asking, "What's wrong with Wheating when he only ran 334 in 2011?"

She has still run the fastest time in the world this year! The US is by far the best in the world at this event. No one wins every championship.

Edwin Moses.

boyfriend.... wrote:

apparently she was a bit boy crazy in high school and this affected her academics and her running...

early on she had issues where at the slightest bit of pain or discomfort she'd want to quit an interval/set

so she's a black girl with daddy issues