Quincy Wilson Not Listed on USA 4x400 Pool

This is what sucks for distance/middle distance runners, the number of opportunities is just lower. 4th best 1500m runner? You're out. 7th best 100m runner? 6th best 400m runner? You can make the team on a relay.

Easier to make the team for distance runners. Their races are a lot longer so they can overcome a mistake at the start. Not so for sprinters. 1 false start or slipped block and it's over for them. Distance runners can fall, get up and still qualify.

The men and women entered in the 400m and 100m are automatically entered and listed in the corresponding relay to the event they are entered in.

You haven't a clue.

Like Mu?

You're not actually making the argument you think you're making. You just said it's easier to make the team as a distance runner because if you fall you can get up, that has nothing to do with the point I made. Furthermore, you're idea that the difficulty of any given event is predicated on whether or not somebody can fall and still win is unbelievably dumb. That's the qualitative metric you use? Really?

There are only three spots for each event.

If you finish 4th in the 1500 you don't make the team unless there is some World Ranking / standard shenanigans. Keep in mind how few distance runners ever have the Olympic standard and how many sprinters have it-- the distance standards are objectively more challenging.

If you finish 4th in the 400, you make the team on a relay. If you finish 6th you could make the team on the relay. How can you say it's easier to make the team as a distance runner when there are literally more spots available for sprint events?

reminding you that sprinters get to run IN THEIR OWN LANE by the way.

Yep

Christian Miller, Kendall Williams, and Brandon Hinklin have run the 12th, 13th, and 14th fastest times in the world and aren't on the team. What distance event do 3 of the top 14 in the world get left off?

I've said this on another thread, you have to be very careful who you end up running in your mixed 4x4, because of the one substitute rule.

The question of who you want to replace & by whom is extremely significant. In 2022, NED decided to rest Femke Bol for the heats, meaning Liemarvin Bonevacia ran both heat & final. But because it was run the same day, he was awful in his final run, much slower than the heat, and this cost NED the gold. In Paris, thankfully the heat and final is on subsequent days, meaning they can choose to rest Bol (or Bonevacia) and know it is not as tiring a schedule.

For the USA, as Awsi Dooger says, Kersee has hinted at Sydney running the event in Paris. If she does (doubtful?) then she will only run the final. In which case, they are subbing a woman. So if Quincy Wilson is running the mixed, he'll be locked in for both heat & final. So he better run well. Of course, this is the same for any athlete, but who knows how much the pressure will get to him. He has his head screwed on, but at just 16 or whatever, can he handle it on the Olympic stage? Because if he were to run a bad leg in the heat, the US may choose to replace him for the final instead, rather than a woman...but that would mean no final for Sydney.

I also wonder which leg is best for Wilson. Leg 1, in lanes, keep it safe? Or leg 3, in a scrum of runners? If the latter, he'd potentially be being pushed and shoved by other outgoing males and at just 5'7 and small framed, he wouldn't fair well. Even an incoming Lieke Klaver could knock him over !

So, every team wants to ensure there are no monumental fcuk ups in the heat, because it might throw off the plan on who to replace!

When there is a 4x800 or a 4x1500 or a 4x5K at a global competition and a team is chosen, I will have the data to answer your question. Until that time, there is no relevance to your question.

Is this akin to Lyles statements about being on the 4x4 team?

I would be extremely surprised if Syd runs any legs of the mixed 4x4. I would be extremely surprised if Syd does not run the final of the women 4x4.

I concur that care of selection of the mixed 4x4 has to be given. Norwood will not be needed for the final of the 4x4. He, Deadmon and Wilson can flip coins for the mixed 4x4 given how early it is, and still have legs for the regular 4x4 duties. For the mixed 4x4, I would switch one of the female athletes. I would use Brown from Arkansas in the final.

My four for the mixed 4x4: Norwood, Deadmon, Brown, Ellis.