Lyles almost cost himself a spot in the 200M

You just reminded me that Knighton is 17!?!

Regardless of how he finishes (I think he will podium), born in 2004 and making the Olympic 200M Final!

Fantastic & what a future!

JustSayin wrote:

Incredible. His head just does not seem to be in the game at all. Why would you do that?

He unsuccessfully pulled a Shericka Jackson.

This custom of "shutting it down" in the 200 has to be the stupidest thing ever.

Just run through the darn finish line. Who do you really think you're impressing

or "psyching out"? Anybody behind you most likely isn't moving on in the

heats.

Totally asinine, I'm amazed that this still goes on.

malarko wrote:

I mean, yes he put himself at risk, but you live and learn, and it only cost him one of those "favorable" lanes the commentators are always going on about. Quotation marks because as we've repeatedly seen, the best athlete can win from any lane.

Now that you mention this, I think Lyles might've actually done this deliberately. He races best from the outside and I think he knows that he needs to be at the top of his game to beat De Grasse

Ain't 1857 wrote:

malarko wrote:

I mean, yes he put himself at risk, but you live and learn, and it only cost him one of those "favorable" lanes the commentators are always going on about. Quotation marks because as we've repeatedly seen, the best athlete can win from any lane.

John Akii-Bua Ln 1 WR '72

Hasely Crawford L1 Gold '76

Angelo Taylor L1 Gold '00

I think the wins by Akii Bua and Crawford were when the lanes were randomly assigned. Part of the reason why the slow lanes are the slow lanes now are because slower runners run in them.

In Rio Wade VNK won out of the outside lane because he allowed himself to be pipped in his semifinal and basically ran a time trial run and destroyed the field.

elementtt wrote:

jmk23 wrote:

What's up with the US men's sprinters this year? Particularly the favorites (Bromell, Norman, Lyles).... If you throw in Brazier not even making the team, what could have been a amazing Olympics for the US men seems pretty meh. Thank god for relays and the hurdlers.

Definitely wondering the same thing. Bromell crashes out, Norman didn't look too good and barely made it through, Lyles all year has been off besides the trials final. Brazier injured or miscalculated how Jewitt was going to run at trials. Kerley did good. He's 100% doing all this to build for a WR attempt at 400. Our only hope for gold was Benjamin who obliterated the WR just for it to be absolutely obliterated by Warholm. Looks like the 4x4 and 4x1 is what we may be taking gold in hopefully.

Skepticism like this is expected in boards where if you run anything less than a PR any time out, you are written off as being DONE.

Athletics is fickle man. Staying on top for one season is hard enough, let alone 2-3, or for an even longer career. To borrow from Stephen Tyler, "nobody knows, where it comes and where it goes".

Sprint2250 wrote:

Looks like someone has to run 19.6 or better for Gold in my opinion.

Lyles doing that out of lane 3 seems unlikely.

Knighton (lane 5) De Grasse (lane 6) Bednarek (lane 7)

My gut is telling me De Grasse barely edging off Bednarek with Knighton and Lyles fighting for Bronze.

If Lyles had lane 9 I would have him favored as he prefers the outside lanes.

I practically called that sh*t. I thought Knighton would be a bit closer though.