44.7 first leg (HT) for US so that's like a sub 45 open. not bad.
44.2 for US on 2nd leg.
44/4 fpr is pm 3rd leg.
44.1 for LM.
My god, what did tha tJamaican split for the first 200 of the last leg? Someon egive them the bronze. They deserve it more than Britain. He made the race exciting.
did Belgium run a team of ALL Borlee's ???
belgium?? wrote:
did Belgium run a team of ALL Borlee's ???
No, they didn't even have Dylan running in the final.
Merritt is money...
What an exciting 4th leg. Donkey Man Francis killed that backstretch. Good job by Rooney too. And Cedenio did great too.
Overall disappointing for the US, but this was a highly competitive and entertaining World Championships. I don't understand how this event can be staged adequately in Eugene.
in retrospect, having felix anchor would've been the smart move
rojo wrote:
Holy MF Shit.
Please stop it. Vulgar verbal imagery.
Mo Greene has that Maddenesque affable dork style of color commentary
couple notes:
Kiprop final 300 was a spectacular 38.02:
http://media.aws.iaaf.org/competitiondocuments/pdf/4875/AT-1500-M-f--1--.RS5.pdf?v=1618309681
Consider he was .7 back at 1200, you have to figure he ran the last 400 in 51.6 or so. That to run a 3:34 is impressive.
Also my crude video analysis has Manangoi running the last 100 of the race in about 12 seconds flat. Pretty preposterous. I think he thought he was out of it and then saw Kiprop flying by them, and figured why not.
How pissed off did Felix look on the podium (with her teammates)?! Great coverage & discussions on these world champs brojos, cheers!
please, the skin color distinctions are not helpful in the long run...
Dunkenfeld wrote:
Womens 5K. - GD did not look remotely tired at the end. I say she gave it away to her compatriot. Very mysterious.
All the other runners must have been in on it too.
Using the clock on the screen (which was off 0.3 for the overall time as it has been the whole WC), Kiprop was 2:41.4 at the bell, finished at 3:34.1, so 52.7 for the last 400, but last 300 in 38.01 is 50.7 pace, while running into lane 3 on the back straight and outside of lane 1 the final curve, plus a small celebration a few steps from the line. So a devastating last 300.
Manangoi *looked* a bit strange, was in good position with 200 to go, totally out of it 100 to go, then appears like a flash of lightning the last meters to nab silver. His actual splirts I have at 13.1/13.0 the final tweo 100s, so it was mostly an illusion caused by everyone else (except Kiprop) tying up.
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Also, Ayana running 8:19 is absurd, more so than Diababa's 1:56.9, which was accompanied by so many doping suspicions.
So does Diababa go for a 800/1500 Rio double instead?
Hair Of The Dog wrote:
Using the clock on the screen (which was off 0.3 for the overall time as it has been the whole WC), Kiprop was 2:41.4 at the bell, finished at 3:34.1, so 52.7 for the last 400, but last 300 in 38.01 is 50.7 pace, while running into lane 3 on the back straight and outside of lane 1 the final curve, plus a small celebration a few steps from the line. So a devastating last 300.?
Running into lane 3 on a straight doesn't mean anything. On a curve, sure but not on a straight.
When does it "mean something"? Running out to lane six? Lane 8? We are talking full on sprinting, not grabbing water during an early race jogging pace.
Oldie wrote:
Hair Of The Dog wrote:Using the clock on the screen (which was off 0.3 for the overall time as it has been the whole WC), Kiprop was 2:41.4 at the bell, finished at 3:34.1, so 52.7 for the last 400, but last 300 in 38.01 is 50.7 pace, while running into lane 3 on the back straight and outside of lane 1 the final curve, plus a small celebration a few steps from the line. So a devastating last 300.?
Running into lane 3 on a straight doesn't mean anything. On a curve, sure but not on a straight.
I opted to run instead of watching the race this morning, so all I got to see when I went home was the last 20 seconds or so on the video. At that point, Makhloufi had a solid lead before rigging and losing out even on the bronze to Iguider by under a tenth of a second. He wasn't far off of Kiprop either. I don't know when Makh went and when he got the lead, but it seems clear that he had a great chance to win if he had gone just about fifty meters later. I like that he went for the win.
That guy was completely insane, but I think he used more of his heart than his head, I mean to challenge Merritt in the backstretch like that you need some major balls. He sure helped stringing the field.
I can't tell for sure but maybe with the flying start he did a 20 flat 200m?
He tried but I don't agree that they deserved more than Great Britain, after all they kept their composure and reeled him in that last 100m because he would eventually fade away.
rojo wrote:
73.05 first lap two japanese leading it
dibaba goes to front of chase pack, ayana folows behind.
2:25.37 at 800 now it’s japan 1-2, dibaba ayana 3-4, rest of the african-born runners and a big gap to the white women
3:38.21 same situation
4:52.25 at 1600
4:59 for tully and the pack.
The white women are actually gaining back up on them. They must not have got the memo- get to the back of the race - and stay there. Of course, they are stil have about 20 meters to catch up.
"The white women"? Really?
Agip wrote:
Last 3k 819 apparently.
Best us finisher not within 69 seconds. Wtf.
Why didn't any of the men try this against Farrah?
They did in the 10000m. Did you see how that turned out?
With all the issues that the US is having with gun related crimes, I disagree with the W4x400 pre-race pose. Sure, it mimicked the Charlie's Angels pose, but they were still holding imaginary guns.