Was she too tired to attempt it, so she accepted 2nd without trying?
Was she too tired to attempt it, so she accepted 2nd without trying?
Yeah she, like filip, should be disqualified for not trying her best.
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Quote in Athletics Weekly says she usually stops after a PB, so continuing after the first one was already an exception, not sure that entirely answers the question.
I wonder if she didn't want to attempt it due to an injury risk, since she would be jumping higher than she had ever attempted previously. Nonetheless, it still seems odd, being that it was the World Championships and they were in the middle of a duel.
Possibly, she was carrying fouls so would have had to beat Lasitskene by a clear height.
Winston Smith wrote:
Possibly, she was carrying fouls so would have had to beat Lasitskene by a clear height.
That was indeed the case:
POS BIB ATHLETE COUNTRY MARK DETAIL 1.84 1.89 1.93 1.96 1.98 2.00 2.02 2.04 2.08
1 127 Mariya Lasitskene ANA ANA 2.04 O O O O O O O O XXX
2 1836 Yaroslava Mahuchikh UKR UKR 2.04 WU20R O XO O XO O XXO O XXO R
Maybe she just wanted to end on a HIGH note. After two WJr records going higher, and missing, seemed unnecessary, and it allowed Lasitskene to go straight to 2.08 and try for that. I think it showed class, not weakness. She should have lots of future opportunities to go higher next year, what is the hurry?
I don't think ML is going to get the record (but hope she does), and I don't like Levchenko's runup (as pretty as she is) to get a lot higher. Maybe Cunningham can add more cm each year, but betting odds should be on YM to get it eventually as she has all the tools.
lasistkene is a glitchy robot. she does everything she knows how to do perfectly, but as soon as a higher challenge appears, it's not that she fails, but it seems to throw her whole composure off, she's like a different person. and her usual routines up to 2.04-2.05 are robotic, has these looks to her left in between breaths, always the same, she basically has a set of nonsensical moves she has to do to be present mentally, like aspberger's. I only noticed cause it seems way similar to my own ocd nonsense.
mahuchikh was beautiful to watch. a real athlete with no clear mental handicap breaking througj with hard work and technically sound under pressure. beautiful
That's the same as any jumper or runner doing their superstitious tics before they perform. If anything it's more important in HJ and PV than other events due to the unique psychological nature of those events. Nothing unusual there. Personally I could watch Lasitskene all day, from the shoulder shrug to the amazing shape she makes in the air, to the cool return to the bench. Beautiful.
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Because she had already jumped over 50 times in the competition, so she was exhausted. And also she wanted Lasitskene to win, because it was going to be Lasitskene's third WC win. Nobody had done that.
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That's the same as any jumper or runner doing their superstitious tics before they perform. If anything it's more important in HJ and PV than other events due to the unique psychological nature of those events. Nothing unusual there. Personally I could watch Lasitskene all day, from the shoulder shrug to the amazing shape she makes in the air, to the cool return to the bench. Beautiful.
Agreed- concentration and keeping your cool are tough in events like the PV and HJ.
You have to be "up" to jump, then wait around and conserve energy, then it's total concentration again.
We had a 6'10 HJer on my team and his main stumbling block, being a high school boy, was concentrating on every aspect of the jump from the first step to kicking your legs as you go over the bar.
Add to that multiple jumps and they get very tired.
If ML and Barshim for that matter, want to break the WR they'll have to pick a competition where they go in high (and risk no height) but conserve energy for that special jump(s).