Unbiased Sha'carri opinions

leaving time in the blocks is one thing, but its area under the curve that counts in the speed time distribution.

what you want for effective area under the curve is max time at max speed. then area under the curve lost in the blocks starts to become relatively trivial.

Dr Foreal wrote:

Do you know what the word immediately means? How fast did they run a month or two after getting busted?

You are trying very hard.

Not with what Thompson and SAFP are running right now no way. Unless she’s aloud to use peds for nearly a decade.

Now as far as the next group I think she’s better than Williams and their u20 or 18 world champ obviously.

Honestly it all depends on the peds in my eyes. All of a sudden their 400m champ is the third fastest women in the world? SAFP looks more like Jeter every year. She’s more muscled up than everyone. Then you have Thompson running FloJo times lmao.

I’m all for allowing peds but they all need to take them lol.

I still like Tamari Davis as the future of US women’s sprinting. Wth happened to her at trials? I never saw her and thought she was going to run in the 200m. Full expected her to make that team honestly.

She is on a dangerous downward spiral. She will never run fast again.

Here for the trainwreck wrote:

Common sense should point out that anyone who is banned from competition will not immediately come back as fast as they were running while they were competing…but common sense isn’t so common I guess.

Also, you said she would never run fast again - not just that she’s slowed down since the ban, but that she will remain slow. Stop being disingenuous.

How would common sense dictate that?

She had 2 months to train for this meet after the trails. After a short 1 month ban she should be dialed in to blow everyone's doors off. The fact she didn't, shows the lack of discipline she has. She meant to make a statement at Pre and the opposite happened.

hobbyjogger1 wrote:

She can beat the Jamaicans after she's had some major races under her belt. She didn't look comfortable facing them and being placed between them. After a few meets and she gets her nerves under control. She'll beat them. But she has a lot of work to do.

Shame people don't realize the historic nature of the women's 100m this year. Strictly based on the times the two of the 3 fastest women are running right now. One could legitimately argue that they are the two fastest women ever. To suggest that anybody could beat them right now is ludacris and shows lack of understanding and furthermore appreciation for what they have accomplished. Sha'Carri has talent, but it takes A LOT more than just talent and "a few meets" to run 10.6x AGAINST competition with the world watching.

She’s not “blowing the doors” off of 2 of the fastest women in history with or without training, stop the nonsense.

She came into the race with unrealistic expectations and realized early she was going to be a non-factor, so she gave up. That’s it, that’s all.

The people who are writing her off after one race in August are no better than the ones who picked her as the favourite for gold after one race in April.

My "I have no dog in this fight" opinion on Richardson:

She's an amazing talent who lacks top level experience so her performances are likely to fluctuate a little as she gets used to elite competition. She can be competitive with the Jamaicans over the next year and should be a medal contender in Eugene

I know she has become a bit of a meme recently but let us not forget that Richardson ran 10.75 as a college freshman and is still only 21 years old. This girl is super talented, if she improves her start and get away from the distractions the sky is the limit.

TrackCoach wrote:

I know she has become a bit of a meme recently but let us not forget that Richardson ran 10.75 as a college freshman and is still only 21 years old. This girl is super talented, if she improves her start and get away from the distractions the sky is the limit.

Well, Candace Hill ran 10.98 when she was 16, and that’s still her personal best. On the other hand, Merlene Ottey ran 10.74 at 36.

If progression was linear, it would have been Kerron Stewart challenging Fraser-Pryce at the 2012 games, not Jeter. We mostly assume that athletes peak in their mid to late 20s, but there are enough exceptions to prove that it isn’t a hard and fast rule.