It looks to me like it’s clean. Barely. But why is it even close?
An even reasonably good high school coach wouldn’t have that many problem. It’s just math as to advising athletes when to take off. How can our relay coaches mess this up so bad year after year? The athletes change and the same mistakes happen.
Give me 60 minutes with any relay team and this never happens and they will have at least average handoffs. How can we not figure this out? Relay passes really aren’t that hard.
This is laughable. They consistently screw up hand-offs because they don't practice with each other enough. 60 minutes of you saying "take off when they are this close" isn't going to make them better. Only repetition and comfort with each other will do that. You act like it's a coaching problem. It's a practice problem.
Back in the states watching on tv and thus I'll immediaely have to start criticisizing.
1) How painful is it to listen to the sprint commentators try to analyze the 800 which they don't understand?
2) Watching field events on tv may be better than in person but why don't Trey or Paul react when Rojas clearly went pas the #1 mark. There is a reason why it's marked on the screen - react to it. The long delay between the jump and the mark just kills the buzz when it's obvious what has happened.
Yeah if it hasn't been blatantly obvious for years now, the Australian motorsport commentary legend Leigh Diffey is just a painfully awful commentator of track and field.
The voice, the knowledge - just all of it is really, hmm, unfortunate.
How does being pissed about getting tripped in a WC semi final indicate that her head is not in it?
Did you see her facial expressions before the start? If she wouldn’t have been tripped up, I am not sure she would stuck around and stayed on the track regardless . You can tell she doesn’t want to be there. There’s nothing wrong with that - to be on the biggest platform at this level reminds me of the pressure Simone Biles felt. I just hope she does win the final because I can only imagine the toll the loss would take on her.
I'm thinking Mu is done with athletics after Paris, maybe depending on how bank her contract is.
Not nearly as famous as Biles and probably fell into running due to genetics and not due to an undying love of the sport -- but she seems over it.
Two ways of handling anger - assuming it is - maybe the trip didn’t bother Mu at all.
Her emotions can either be a distraction to performance, or she can use that anger to get fired up for the final, like “I’m here, I’m defending champion, and I’m going to smoke you all again.”
My first thought when she exited that quickly was that she was going for treatment. I'm hoping she didn't strain something.
Having to ascend a flight of stairs to receive treatment is really stupid and poorly thought out. If someone is injured, the last thing you do is make them go up a flight of stairs. I think she was just trying to escape any chance of media or press.
How does being pissed about getting tripped in a WC semi final indicate that her head is not in it?
She looked ready to murder someone, lol. The final is going to be like that indoor NCAA championship where she lost the 400 and then came out and destroyed everyone in the 4x4. She needs to get out front early and stay out front though.
I assumed the reason she *didn't* bust out front in this one is cuz they went out in freaking 26.xx. But yeah, maybe she needs to lead it out regardless of how fast she has to go to do it.
W200m will be hot. I’ve still got Jackson ftw, she really knows how to run it.
In the M200m, I’m taking Tebogo ftw. The balance coming off that curve, the hip position, the cycling…he will have plenty left down the straight. It will be killer!
W200m will be hot. I’ve still got Jackson ftw, she really knows how to run it.
In the M200m, I’m taking Tebogo ftw. The balance coming off that curve, the hip position, the cycling…he will have plenty left down the straight. It will be killer!
Two ways of handling anger - assuming it is - maybe the trip didn’t bother Mu at all.
Her emotions can either be a distraction to performance, or she can use that anger to get fired up for the final, like “I’m here, I’m defending champion, and I’m going to smoke you all again.”
My first thought when she exited that quickly was that she was going for treatment. I'm hoping she didn't strain something.
Yeah, I was worried about that, too. But the way she bounded up those stairs two at a time sure didn't look like she'd strained anything.
Mu is going to pull a Rudisha in the final. Run on pure hate and break the WR wire to wire.
I think we are all secretly hoping for this. I would love her to just go out at 55 low, hug the rail tight and just dust the field. Similar to Tim’s 1500 run in Doha in 2019 💨
Back in the states watching on tv and thus I'll immediaely have to start criticisizing.
1) How painful is it to listen to the sprint commentators try to analyze the 800 which they don't understand?
2) Watching field events on tv may be better than in person but why don't Trey or Paul react when Rojas clearly went pas the #1 mark. There is a reason why it's marked on the screen - react to it. The long delay between the jump and the mark just kills the buzz when it's obvious what has happened.
The one guy keeps reading out the jumps in feet and inches, even though the score board is in meters. So he says "48 and 11" and you are wondering how it fits into the leadership board until the graphic finally comes up in meters and you can see what it means.
W200m will be hot. I’ve still got Jackson ftw, she really knows how to run it.
In the M200m, I’m taking Tebogo ftw. The balance coming off that curve, the hip position, the cycling…he will have plenty left down the straight. It will be killer!
By practice, I mean time, because as you know there is a big diff between going through the motions and going full-speed, or doing 60m legs. Gotta have that recovery time if doing stuff at speed, maybe no more than 2 run-throughs per session. Takes time.
otoh if you’re tellkng me they don’t know shlt like where the zone is, then…😮
I agree - it’s why I always prefer training relays on off days or as a “tune up” workout the day before or 2 days before a meet while doing nothing else to keep legs fresh