GB 4x100 relay, again underperfoming. Bad selection criteria.

Ben L Wrong wrote:

I don't understand why on earth they put Harry AA and Richard Kilty (non-factors in the individual 100m) in the team, leaving CJ Ujah (almost make the finals, and fastest brit for sure) out of the team?

Why is Ellington running the curve? he's not better than Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake or Adam Gemili (200m specialists)

This is my team

James Dasaolu

Adam Gemili

Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake

Chijindu Ujah

With Kilty and Ellington as substitutes. Harry AA is garbage, specially against Yohan Blake and Justin Gatlin in that 2nd leg. He needs more reps in the track than in the press bench. That's for sure.

Kilty and Harry AA both ran 10.0x PRs recently so maybe that was the logic? It does seem strange that there's leave of Chijindu especially given his PR, but I don't know how he's been running. It is grange that Gemili wasn't on the curve

Harry ran 10.08 in a low key meet, with +1.7 tailwind (10.16 basic), with no competition at all. But on the big stage, he never ran under 10.10, so, clearly slower than Dasaolu/Ujah.

Kilty, the same. 10.01 (+1.9 tailwind) wich is 10.10 basic, in a low key meet against nobody.

One can say that Kilty is a good starter, but I didn't understand Harry AA running against the likes of Blake, Gatlin, Kiryu, Aaron Brown, etc.

CJ Ujah almost made the 100m final in Rio and ran 10.01 on the big stage.

Also, CJ Ujah was the anchor in the European gold, and ran the heats.

But Kilty pointed the fingers to Ujah last year, and blamed Ujah for a mistake, not understanding that his problem is not the team chemistry. His problem is that he's too slow, AND also his big Ego and primmadonna's attitude.