MCLAUGHLIN 47.91

Felix has a sub 48 split but 49.26 400m PR

Nope. As great as she is, Mu looks and talks like she's hit her limit. Even so, she can take McLaughlin in the 400.

Heard that Syd is going to Monaco but doing the hurdles again

People like to downvote this post oddly but a flying start is a LOT different from auto-timing from the blocks. I think her split however is at the worst a 49.0 FAT equivalent.

So is running all alone with a big lead.

Abby has a 48 split and a 57.21 PR.

I agree with everything you said. It is difficult to give 100% when you get the baton with a 20-meter lead. Syd's habit of taking the baton early in the zone goes back to H.S. and college. It is actually good to do it that way when the incoming runner is rigging and you have to chase people down. You want the baton in your hands as soon as possible.

I'd love to know where you got that "rule" from. I've never known a coach to use it; most go with ~0.5.

But I could be wrong, and if you have a source I'd appreciate being corrected.

It seems like 1/3 of posters on this site are trying to encourage S.M. to become an 800m specialist. It seems like 1/3 of the posters on this site are trying to encourage S.M. to become a 400m specialist. I wish readers and posters on this site would allow S.M. to be the best 400mH athlete possible and leave it at that. Eleven months ago at Olympics, S.M. raced first leg of 4 x 400m in 50.xx. First leg of 4 x 400m is an honest 400m performance. Yesterday, S.M. anchored 4 x 400m. Anchor leg of 4 x 100/4 x 200/4 x 400 is similar to racing down hill. Does not count.

Adding 1.0 to 1.2 seconds to a 400 split isn't a rule. It's just something that he made up.

It's not the posters. Sydney's coach was the one that said that she was going to move to the flat 400.

You're dreaming.

She can run sub 48 in the next few weeks if she wants. She wasn't all out on that relay carry.

Allyson Felix ran relay legs of 47.7 and 48.0, but she never broke 49 seconds in a 400 from the blocks.

Runner's relay splits compared to their regular 400 times are all over the place. The only way to know how fast Sydney can run a 400 is when she actually runs a 400.

Good news - Sydney's coach said that Sydney will be running a 400 in the next few weeks.

Bad news - She won't break 48. You'll see.

Marita Koch's best 4x4 split, to my knowledge, was 47.70, while Olga Bryzgina split 47.81 and the other Olga 47.90. Flo Jo split 48.08 in 1988, only to lose to the Olgas in their still standing world record. Sydney McLaughlin, unpushed in the race, may well be capable of a sub-48.

No, it doesn't work like that. Allyson Felix ran relay legs of 47.7 and 48.0, but she never broke 49 seconds.

Does that mean Sydney can't break 49 seconds? No. Comparing relays splits to 400 times from blocks is not an exact science.

We will only know what Sydney can run in a 400 when she actually runs one.

Bobby Kersee is as dirty as Al Sal. She has everything to gain from doping. She's in a fringe sport, where the only way to make money is to set records.

In one short year we've gone from, wiping the 1980's records from the books because they're illegitimate due to doping and they'll never be beaten, to "I ThInK sHe HaS a sHoT at ThE 400M ReCoRd".

How about some objectivity.

The people who are saying she can’t touch the 400m world record are the same ones who said she’d never go sub 51…

I hope she continues to prove you all wrong. She’s done remarkably well at it so far.