Official 2018 Rome Golden Gala DL Discussion Thread - Will Emma Coburn rule the steeple in 2018?

Runner1218 wrote:

If you had paid attention to the feed, you'd know that is an olympic stadium aka extremely massive.

Still a sizable crowd according to the broadcasters.

Not all of us live in the U.S. (as a matter of fact, 95% of us to be exact!) and are getting the same feed. Mine's in Italian.

Men’s 400:

American Fred Kerley had a big lead half way down the homestretch but he nearly got run down as Qatar’s Abdalleleh Haroun nearly went from 3rd to 1st in the final 20 meters. Kerley had just enough to hold on for the first Diamond League win of his career in a big seasonal best of 44.33 (previous sb of 44.71) with Haroun second in a seasonal best of 44.47 (previous sb of 33.50).

Unheralded American Paul Dedewo, running in lane 2, was the only guy close to Kerley coming off the final turn. In the end, the 26-year old, who coming into the year had a 45.13 pb but made the 4 x 400 team for the world indoors, ended up being rewarded with a third place showing and pb of 44.58 (previous pb of 44.62).

rojo wrote:

Men’s 400:

American Fred Kerley had a big lead half way down the homestretch but he nearly got run down as Qatar’s Abdalleleh Haroun nearly went from 3rd to 1st in the final 20 meters. Kerley had just enough to hold on for the first Diamond League win of his career in a big seasonal best of 44.33 (previous sb of 44.71) with Haroun second in a seasonal best of 44.47 (previous sb of 33.50).

Unheralded American Paul Dedewo, running in lane 2, was the only guy close to Kerley coming off the final turn. In the end, the 26-year old, who coming into the year had a 45.13 pb but made the 4 x 400 team for the world indoors, ended up being rewarded with a third place showing and pb of 44.58 (previous pb of 44.62).

Would have been a strong 4x400m this year had there been a world championships. Might even, ya know, win a WC 4x400m title?

TaLou (all 5' of her?) takes the 200

Theodore wrote:

This is one hell of a long jump competition, six guys over eight metres...

In case you are wondering, it appears that the most ever over 8 meters in a single competition was set at this meet at the 1987 world champs when the top 12 all went 8.00 or farther.

Tortu looks nervous. How old is he? looks 12. TaLou into a 1.7 headwind, same for this 100?

Baker no fluke! 9.93 into a headwind is no joke. Tortu just misses the Italian record

Baker wins in 9.93 into a .4 wind. Tortu 3rd in 10.04

Might be time to ask questions about Coleman (10.06 for 4th), but it's also possible he just shut it down once he realized he didn't have the win.

Coleman shut it down just slightly, but he wasn’t going to run under 10 anyway. He doesn’t look to have that pop that he had indoors or even during his 4x1 earlier this spring. I suspect he may have some sort of nagging injury. I noticed the tape on one of his hamstrings.

steepleppl wrote:

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I went to youtube and the stream came right up.

What a nice race. Too bad Coburn fell.

She pushed off the barrier way too hard, and almost cleared the water but fell down.

Passing between two opponents on the water is risky, but given that Coburn generally comes out of the water ahead was the only option given her positioning.

Pushing off the barrier too hard is not the issue.

If that's not the issue, then why did she fall? Of course that's the issue.

Sprinter Guy wrote:

Coleman shut it down just slightly, but he wasn’t going to run under 10 anyway. He doesn’t look to have that pop that he had indoors or even during his 4x1 earlier this spring. I suspect he may have some sort of nagging injury. I noticed the tape on one of his hamstrings.

He's been quite open about the fact that he's had a hamstring issue recently. That's why he didn't race in Shanghai.

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steepleppl wrote:

Passing between two opponents on the water is risky, but given that Coburn generally comes out of the water ahead was the only option given her positioning.

Pushing off the barrier too hard is not the issue.

If that's not the issue, then why did she fall? Of course that's the issue.

I'm going with she was off balance from being sandwiched between the two other athletes coming off the barrier, not completely on balance, and a bit slippery from all the water jumps prior. That was my thoughts when I watched it live.

So are they going to show the men's steeple on NBC gold? It comes after the TV window. If I don't get to watch that race on gold, I'm going to lose it.

How fast could Luvo Manyonga run 100m?

Runner1218 wrote:

If you had paid attention to the feed, you'd know that is an olympic stadium aka extremely massive.

Still a sizable crowd according to the broadcasters.

Empty seats never look good. The whole upper sections are faceless. The backstretch is even worse.

Broadcasters are paid to hype.

Cheruiyot again!! Damn he looks hungry. Breathing down the pacers necks . 3:31, solo last lap

Cheruiyot and Manangoi dusted the "18 year" old down the home stretch.

Good run by Souleman.

rojo wrote:

So are they going to show the men's steeple on NBC gold? It comes after the TV window. If I don't get to watch that race on gold, I'm going to lose it.

Switch over to the Youtube feed.