Lyles is 27 and Tebogo is 21.
Tebogo is the FUTURE of our sport. Not Lyles. Most fans hate Lyles.
Lyles is 27 and Tebogo is 21.
Tebogo is the FUTURE of our sport. Not Lyles. Most fans hate Lyles.
Battocletti?
34trsp wrote:
Battocletti?
Exactly
CH wins and over achieves ..Excellent..
BH loses and over achieves? Please make logic out of this.
How BH makes the list by drafting to a PB and not medalling is illogical.
Especially when others have medals and PB in the same event.
Both MA and EW PB in the 800M Olympic Final and medalled.
EW with front running and having to perfectly time his final assault.
MA exceptional race with barely believable second half BP and almost won it all.
0.02S MA would have been Olympic and W Champion
I wonder what is special about BH? it cant be his PB.
Hoppel ran great, improving his personal best from 1:42.77 to 1:41.67 for 4th, but is that better than Arop improving his personal best from 1:42.85 to 1:41.20 and getting 2nd? Is it because Arop was the world champion? "To run a 1.10-second pb in an Olympic final is about all you can ask for as an 800 runner." What about 1.65 seconds? I don't think he was still the favourite after Monaco.
Rooks was great but he owes it to the incompetence of those two Ethiopians who were supposed to keep the pace honest. If they follow 2:40 with another 2:40 I doubt Rooks medals. Instead the two buffoons slowed to 2:50, which congested everybody and led to traffic issues for Girma.
It should have been a strung out race like women's steeplechase. Kenya should be sanctioned for steeplechase ineptitude
Here's a link that still has those 200 meter betting odds. Prior to the race they were all very similar to this:
Hassan??? Chebet? Too US centric
“In athletics” and not even a mention of Rooth? Dude was a 25-1 betting underdog and set a ton of PRs to win the decathlon.
I enjoyed watching the repechege rounds on replay. There were actual consequences for the athletes in the race and they often turned out to be entertaining. The Olympics only come around every 4 years, and getting a little more distance action in them made the experience more enjoyable.
Quincy Hall isn’t getting near enough love for a GREAT comeback, and a stout time, in the 400.
Jamaican sprinters should be on that underachievers list. They went from winning 13 medals in London, 11 in Rio, 9 in Tokyo to only 2 on the track in Paris.
SAFP and Shericka scratched, Seville and Tia Clayton both ran fast semis then blew the final, men's 4x100 blew an exchange and didn't make the final, women's 4x4 dropped the baton... just constant disappointment. Even their best result on the track, Kishane's silver, was a letdown.
Their throwers and jumpers saved them, would've been a truly humiliating Olympics without those field medals