whawha wrote:
Where was Kerley in the men’s 200ms? Did he not run? I missed the prelims
Kerley surprisingly has never been good at the 200M. I read somewhere he has ankle issues running the bend. He did not enter the 200M at trials.
Did Sha'Carri choke in 200 or is she just a pure 100 runner?
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casualsportsfan wrote:
What nobody seems to have commented on is the technical glitch she has in her start within the first three steps out of the blocks. Occasionally, she'll step almost sideways in one of those first three steps, which directs her momentum nearly sideways. By the time she takes the next step she's lost so much forward momentum it costs her several tenths of a second. This technical glitch doesn't happen every race, but it does rear it's ugly head in both the 100m and 200m. I'd equate it to a Greg Norman yipped putt, or a Chuck Knoblauch overthrown baseball. Uncanny, unexplainable, unpredictable, but always a threat to derail her race at the most inopportune moments. If she didn't take that bizarre sidestep in the finals, she looked to he in 21.8x fitness based on her earlier rounds.
You are entirely correct in what you observed, there is a technical flaw in how Sha'Carri Richardson starts her races. What's even more bizarre was that she stepped on the inside line after almost going into the outside lane after her start. I wish her coaches had the courage to change her feet in the blocks, with the non-dominant foot forward she wouldn't over power her starts and run a better technical first part of her race.
SCR's side step caused her to take at least 1 addtional stride in that 200 meter semi which she ran in 21.71, 1 step is approximately .20 seconds. She also did the same thing in last years 100 meter semis at Worlds that almost cost her not making the final and not winning a gold medal!
What was ironic at least to me is that probably the best techinical runner in the women's 200 meter dash that I have observed was in the lane right next to SCR and that was Jenna Prandini who has her non-dominant (left foot) forward in the blocks. They cut away a couple of times but what I could count in slow motion was that Jenna took 50 strides to SCR's 51.5 strides on the curve.
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