That's really unfortunate. Texas women had an easy top 3 4x4. Happy they'll still easily win the team title (unless Alfred is hurt, she looked off today). Feel bad for the Texas girl. Think she thought the other white team was her teammate.
I just don’t get how someone running at an NCAA championship makes that mistake on any exchange much less the first. You don’t even have to leave your lane. There’s no excuse
I was told that getting this sport out of that crappy small town in Oregon would guarantee people would be in the stands.
No, you were told the shtty small town in Oregon that proclaims itself the track capital of the country doesn’t even have sellout crowds anymore, the one advantage it supposedly did have over everywhere else.
So literally no reason anymore to send everyone else to a hard and expensive to get to location in a remote corner of the country with horrific weather while continuing to give the same team the decided advantage of not having to travel every single year.
I was told that getting this sport out of that crappy small town in Oregon would guarantee people would be in the stands.
No, you were told the shtty small town in Oregon that proclaims itself the track capital of the country doesn’t even have sellout crowds anymore, the one advantage it supposedly did have over everywhere else.
So literally no reason anymore to send everyone else to a hard and expensive to get to location in a remote corner of the country with horrific weather while continuing to give the same team the decided advantage of not having to travel every single year.
Nailed it.
People who complain about it not being in Eugene either live within driving distance or have never been. Cons severely outweigh the pros and it's not even close.
It looked like Kemboi mocked the NC State Wolfpack hand gesture at the line (that Touhy always does) did anyone else see that?
You got down voted here but I thought the same. The gesture is a wolf sign (NC State, nWo wrestling, etc.); I’ve never seen it used otherwise. Pretty odd way to celebrate when your team is the wolverines. she also cut her hands after she did it as to say “no.”
Wow. Mitchell way off the pace through 300 meters, squarely in last then gets an auto Q in 2nd in 2:02. Roisin wins the heat
Yeah, I saw that. but I think they went out fast, it's not like she ran negative splits. she was wise to hold back in that heat, imo. but, wow, I thought she was wayyy behind (time wise), she wasn't though, Mitchell was just trying to not burn herself the first 400m.
Wow. Mitchell way off the pace through 300 meters, squarely in last then gets an auto Q in 2nd in 2:02. Roisin wins the heat
Yeah, I saw that. but I think they went out fast, it's not like she ran negative splits. she was wise to hold back in that heat, imo. but, wow, I thought she was wayyy behind (time wise), she wasn't though, Mitchell was just trying to not burn herself the first 400m.
she ran that way at regionals as well - that is just her racing tactic - or maybe lack of top 200 m speed - to not go out real hard for first 200
I just don’t get how someone running at an NCAA championship makes that mistake on any exchange much less the first. You don’t even have to leave your lane. There’s no excuse
She didn't actually leave her lane, she kept going straight on the brightly painted lane instead of taking the curve. She saw someone with her team's color scheme straight in front of her so she figured she had to keep going straight.
The track is stupidly painted, with the straigtaway lanes painted brightly well past the finish line. I suppose they do that so they can run the 110 hurdles backwards if the wind is blowing the other direction, but it should be a different color or dashed lines past the finish line, instead of bright white lines all the way.
Yes it was the runner's mistake, but I can totally see how she made the mistake.
I prefer what you call ‘monotone’ versus the over-the-top exuberance heard sometimes on a certain media channel.
Yeah, I'll take Dwight Stones over Carol Lewis AAANNNNNYYYY day!
But, as Casual Observer wrote, we want RG3.
They didn't bring RG3 back because he made the broadcast too exciting. ESPN doesn't want people tuning in to be entertained, they want track and field to look like a boring sport. So far they are turning one of the most exciting track meets ever into a snoozefest.
I just don’t get how someone running at an NCAA championship makes that mistake on any exchange much less the first. You don’t even have to leave your lane. There’s no excuse
She didn't actually leave her lane, she kept going straight on the brightly painted lane instead of taking the curve. She saw someone with her team's color scheme straight in front of her so she figured she had to keep going straight.
The track is stupidly painted, with the straigtaway lanes painted brightly well past the finish line. I suppose they do that so they can run the 110 hurdles backwards if the wind is blowing the other direction, but it should be a different color or dashed lines past the finish line, instead of bright white lines all the way.
Yes it was the runner's mistake, but I can totally see how she made the mistake.
What? She was in lane 6 and was handing off on the curve, she keep running straight. Straight into lane 8 trying to hand off to Tennessee! Her teammate running 2nd leg is white and she tried to hand off to a black girl from Tennessee, impeding Tennessee and Florida in lane 7. WTF????
Please educate me a bit here… why the heck did heat 1 of the 1500 have NCAA ranked 1,2,3,4,6,7,8 seeds? Talk about unbalanced. A huge advantage to heat 2 runners (with top seeds = 5,10,11,16…) and very tough for someone like Plourde, who just missed out from heat 1 and probably would have breezed in from what was always going to be *the slow heat*.
Tuohy was clearly upset about this after the race.
She had to work too hard to qualify while she could have breezed in a more balanced field.
