I read most of this thread. Wow, overthehurdles is insufferable. Guess beating Tinsley and Sanchez won't be enough since he didn't crack 48flat ha.
I read most of this thread. Wow, overthehurdles is insufferable. Guess beating Tinsley and Sanchez won't be enough since he didn't crack 48flat ha.
he took it out hard. I give a ton of respect to Culson for his acknowledgement of AE after the race. The guy is the best athlete on the planet.
Over the hurdle wrote:
I am being harsh I agree. But the reason I am harsh on the time (and not the athlete) is because I know about the sport more than people in the thread could care for and I hate seeing the paid shills attack like rabid animals because someone states something different from their (paid for or emotional) opinion.
Yes, Felix Sanchez is one of the greatest, but there is likely a reason he won in London at 34 years old. The event is weak and has been for awhile and Sanchez is a great athlete. Sanchez is also more of an endurance rather than speed oriented 400m athlete, like Wariner, or Young for instance. His 800 time is pretty telling. But 47.6 is like running 1:44.5 or thereabouts. A 49 would roughly be like 1:50, which is worth 4:05 on the McMillan tables.
and I never said it was a bad time, I said it wasn't an exclamation point, it wasn't a great time, it wasn't a threadworthy *ocksucking kind of time. And thats where I was wrong, because I didn't toe the party or ideological line. Basically I didn't bend over and suck one and for that not only is my argument invalid but I have no idea what I'm talking about.
Textbook shilling. Seems to happen regularly here when one criticizes a certain group of athletes. Only zealots look at moderate differing opinions from there own as dissent.
Its like a 4:05 mile or 10.5 100m. Edwin Moses (the greatest ever) ran 47.45 in 1977. The record in the mile then was 3:51, the 100m was 9.95, and the 400 hurdles has always had lower competition because it is a harder technical event.
Pretty simple to understand, explainable and logical. An example of a moderate opinion but completely wrong and idiotic in this thread. How dare I.
The mile WR was 3:49.4. And the above is laughable, of course.
Ashton Eaton's PBs over all the events are truly as(h)tonishing. And now 48,69 in the 400mH. Even when the overall level of the event is very weak, 48,69 for an decathlete (!) is fantastic, I'm not a decathlon specialist in any way, but to me it seems he is on the way to become one of the greatest athletes in history (not just in the decathlon). Even now his PBs are unique. And he is just 26, maybe he can improve some of them. Has he said he wants to concentrate for a longer time on the 400mH? How much can he improve? It's close to impossible that he already has got close to his potential so fast in such an difficult event.
I agree with you. Eaton's 400m hurdle time of 48.69 is incredible. The 400m hurdle event is not weak. It's just a really tough event and the top runners make it look easy.
Over the hurdle wrote:
I hate making predictions, but I'll make one here.
I think it would be highly unlikely Eaton breaks 48 given his 400m pr of 45.6.
That would be a 2.4 second differential which OG/WC finalists in 400/400 hurdles demonstrate.
I would say the fastest he goes this season in the 400 hurdles is 48.6. If he goes even a tenth faster I would be impressed because it shows he is in the elite technical aspects of the event that athletes with years of experience have and he would have done it in a season.
Pretty good prediction.
Season is pretty much over.
Eaton finished the season with a best of 48.69.
8th fastest performer in the world in 2014. Only 0.4 off being 2nd in the world. 2nd fastest American in 2014.