Pre Classic 2019 (6/30) - official discussion thread

Voiceofreason wrote:

Stephen Hawking's football boots wrote:

Oh this makes me laugh - someone who is "kept up with the sprint scene" - brother the only thing I'd guess that you really know is that the World Championships are in October. Kudos.

If you think that Tori Bowie's performances aren't of some concern you are completely clueless. She ran 11.22 with a 0.7 tail in Boston 2 weeks ago and today she ran 11.30 with a 0.3 tail. Dude, we are talking about an athlete with a 10.78PR who is extremely decorated. My expectation of that kind of talent, even with a late World Champs (applause for you) is that she is at least competitive and probably hovering around the 11.0X watermark at this point in the season.

I mean we hear the same "building towards October" from guys like Coleman (who have also had injury issues in the recent past) and yeah, he's probably capable of running 9.7 low by worlds - he's running 0.1-0.15 off that right now - that's exactly where he should be. Same for Lyles, same for DeGrasse, et al.

We aren't talking an 800m race here - to be competing over 100m almost half a full second off your PR? If you think that having concern at that is a nonsense conclusion you have no idea what you are talking about.

Tori's head and heart isn't in it right now for a variety of reasons - and that's what the concern is. Unfortunately a few extra weeks of "prep" for Doha isn't going to change this for the good.

Hey nimrod, since when does early season struggles automatically dictate/equate to an awful performance at Worlds?! There have been plenty of athletes that have struggled early season then gone on and performed exceptionally at worlds. There are also athletes who perform spectacular early season and even most of season then by worlds there peaked out and toast. Its all about timing it right. Being concerned may be somewhat reasonable but if you factor in the very late start of worlds (worlds have never been held this late in a year) and the fact she already has a bye to the championships she can have as fucked up as a build she wants and just needs to be in peak form in October.