| To: Bonefish who wrote (79923) | 8/4/2024 1:34:09 PM | | From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell | | | | We lost the 4x100m men's medley relay (swimming) for the first time ever (since 1960) a few seconds ago. The anchor for China is the world record holder in the 100 free, and swam the fastest anchor in history. That's how relays are often won (for better or worse).
For the 4x400 (track) race, when my son ran it in HS, all four kids could go sub 50. That's unheard of in high school. But-- it wasn't good enough to set our school record because the anchor of our record setting team was, no surprise, the 400m school record holder who lopped off entire seconds by himself.
Now, it's the women's turn!
Edit: The women win gold in world record time! Crazy.
- Jeff |
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| To: Bonefish who wrote (79923) | 8/4/2024 3:28:03 PM | | From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell | | | | I think I've said many a time that one of my (many) hobbies is calling (and producing) the livestreams of HS track meets. I had the pleasure of calling Juliette Whittaker's national HS record indoor 1000m run at the Ocean Breeze facility on Staten Island. Juliette just ran 1:57.76 in the semis of the 800, a personal best. That's unreal. She got boxed in and could have run faster, IMO. Not a medal contention time, but so happy for her to make the finals. If you watched the trials, you'd have seen the best in the word and defending gold medalist, the US's Athing Mu (who I met as a shy teenager years ago), fall... so she's absent. Keely Hodgkinson of GB will win it.
The men's 1500 is the race to watch. I'm a big Josh Kerr fan of GB over Jakob Ingebrigtsen of Norway... but I also love Cole Hocker and Yared Nuguse for the US. Kessler just shocked me with how well he did. In the finals, I expect Nuguse to continue his strategy of heading for the front and leading everyone around. At some point Ingebrigtsen will pass him with Kerr on his heels... then Kerr will outkick him to gold. That's his M.O. Nuguse will hang on for third.
BTW, I don't like the way Noah Lyles has been starting his 100s. I said the same about Sha'Carri, who never recovered. Good starts are hard to overcome. Seville looked amazing, so has to be the favorite. I think Lyles will (also) take second with Thompson third. I hope not. I hope Noah brings it.
- Jeff |
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| To: Jeffrey S. Mitchell who wrote (79925) | 8/4/2024 4:45:39 PM | | From: Bonefish | | | | World record backfired on the USA.
Coach kept the same team. meanwhile the Dutch coach subbed in femke bol.
Second fastest 400m runner in the world. Had he'd figured in her speed he'd have subbed in a faster anchor for the USA team. Or a faster other leg.
And they lost.
The mixed relay world record isn't that special right now since the elite runners haven't been that involved. |
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| To: Bonefish who wrote (79930) | 8/4/2024 8:20:49 PM | | From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell | | | | No question had we put our top 400m runners in the relay, we win and set a massive world record. Still, given the times of our competitors, we should have won. One option would have been to Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone at anchor. She and Bol are both 400m hurdlers who probably would also finish top two in the flat 400. I've been a Syndey fan since her days at Union Catholic in NJ. I even traveled to Boston in 2017 to see her Emma Coburn, Brenda Martinez, and Jenny Simpson set the indoor DMR (distance medley relay) world record. As part of the press I had an opportunity afterwards to talk to her and say congrats.
My current favorite runner is Quincy Wilson (not Hall). The kid is killing it at 16 in the 400. You'll see him on a relay. If he stays healthy, he should break the world record before he turns 18. We got to call his race at Ocean Breeze a few months ago.
- Jeff |
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| To: Jeffrey S. Mitchell who wrote (79933) | 8/4/2024 10:14:21 PM | | From: Bonefish | | | | Putting Sydney McLaughlin in would have been the equivalent of the Dutch coach inserting Femke Bol. Usa coach should have seen that and compensated. Not sure
Usually they sub out for better runners in the final but because they set a world record, they let the weaker runners run again in the final.
Looks like the dutch stole one. |
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| To: Bonefish who wrote (79934) | 8/4/2024 11:10:10 PM | | From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell | | | | Epic fail on the NBC announcers on Noah's win. At the very least, they should have been clear it was their opinion, as opposed to what was popping up on their screen from the timers. BTW, I actually think Leigh does a great job in general, so was surprised. And had he answered my email about getting together for lunch (he lives two towns over), I probably wouldn't have posted this lol. He also calls NASCAR, which I think makes him better calling track. For some reason, most track announcers are heavy on the conversation and don't pay much attention to the race itself until the end.
BTW, I forgot to mention Gabby Thomas. She's one of my favorites as well, perhaps even my favorite as a person not just an athlete.
- Jeff |
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