Can you train a decent male 49 400m 1.53 800m club level runner to run sub 22 in the 200m?
Not happening!
That would be a tall order for world class male 800m to train to run a sub 22 200m.
Club level 800m male runner, which is what Semenya really is, has no chance at a sub 22 200.
truth be told once wrote:
Can you train a decent male 49 400m 1.53 800m club level runner to run sub 22 in the 200m?
Not happening!
That would be a tall order for world class male 800m to train to run a sub 22 200m.
Club level 800m male runner, which is what Semenya really is, has no chance at a sub 22 200.
I agree, but, do you think she's been running as fast as she can in the 800? I think this is an interesting move as we will now get to see her actually try to run fast rather than coast along and then do a kick at the end to win. I don't know if she will have the speed, but it will be far more interesting then her running the 800. Will her natural t-levels be able to compete against steroids?
Sprinting is a totally different thing from middle distance running. You need to be born with sprinting talent, meaning everything that makes you fast, makes you suck at middle and long distance.
I would be willing be bet a huge sum of money that Allyson Felix is, and always has been, clean. She has broken 22 and 11.
truth be told once wrote:
...everything that makes you fast, makes you suck at middle and long distance.
I like this line. I wonder if elite 800/1500 meter runners agree. I can only think of 1 other elite 800m runner that switched to the sprints. Ana Guevara.
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If Semenya would have chosen to be a 200m specialist between ages 12 to 17, maybe a sub-22 200m athlete. Semenya is almost 30.
she will not be a factor in the 200M.....in any case there is a very good chance the Olympics will be rescheduled until who knows when?
Hope she works the weights hard and utilizes her high-T. Not likely, but also seemed like she rarely went all out in the 800. In the 200 she wouldn't be holding back.
Semenya has run close to 50.0 for 400m. With training she likely can go pretty fast over 200m.
I agree that Flojo was dirty but you won’t find a single person on the circuit who thinks Allyson Felix is dirty, regardless of who coaches her. Different era, different person.
Hitting the Olympic standard and winning a medal are a million miles apart, especially in the sprints.
Allyson Felix volunteered to be in the US anti doping program’s “project believe” where athletes volunteered to provide blood and urine samples weekly to be tested and stored.
She ran 22.11 in high school.
She’s extremely gifted and hard working. Her times are nowhere Flojos, despite being more talented and having the same coach.
I’d bet she’s clean, 100%.
Koch 10.83/21.71/47.60
Jarmilla 47.99/1:53.28
Jelimo 24.68/52.78/1:54.01
Caster 24.26/49.62/1:54.25
Quirot 23.07/49.61/1:54.44
Mutola 23.86/51.37/1:55.19
Perec 21.99/48.25/?
etc
If Caster can run 48 low then 22 low might be in the cards.
Otherwise, I'd suggest the steeple.
truth be told once wrote:
Can you train a decent male 49 400m 1.53 800m club level runner to run sub 22 in the 200m?
Not happening!
That would be a tall order for world class male 800m to train to run a sub 22 200m.
Club level 800m male runner, which is what Semenya really is, has no chance at a sub 22 200.
You must be smoking something. Many elite 800m runners can break 22. If you search youtube I’m sure you can see cas loxsom running suv 22 at the end of a workout. I’ve witnessed many run low 22 in practice. Semenya will not break 22, nor 22.5. But I believe low 23-22.8 is possible. Won’t be a factor but just saying
Like Gay?
You crack me up. No chance she is clean. Learn thy history.
I’m rooting for her, only because the IAAF has essentially dared her by making the 400-mile off limits.
Whether she does the 200, steeple, 5000, etc. Something about seeing an underdog win is always great. Who’d have thought she’d ever be considered an underdog.
If enough intersex athletes move down to 200m (Seyni already there and seems to have better sprinting skill than Semenya) they might just give World Athletics enough data to ban them there as well.
Sprintgeezer wrote:
F him.
A-hole.
Lol
beeeeeeeen there wrote:
I’m rooting for her, only because the IAAF has essentially dared her by making the 400-mile off limits.
Whether she does the 200, steeple, 5000, etc. Something about seeing an underdog win is always great. Who’d have thought she’d ever be considered an underdog.
Anyone running with testes against a bunch of women without testes is NOT the underdog.