Athletics 2024 (Mod note #869)

I think Rhasidat would be crazy to miss the 4 x 400m mixed relay if the team was to qualify for the final. There's no guarantee she will even medal in the 400 individual.

She may come back for final if they make it to final without her but she hardly going be doing the earlier rounds… when she has her own individual rounds to get through and I think that will be her focus. Nothing guaranteed Pryce who ran that crazy time today had strapping on her lower leg her body bound to be hurting hopefully that Arkansas coach isn’t running her into the ground like he did with Wilson last year so nothing guaranteed in two weeks and she has to go through 3 rounds now to get into that final … obviously after todays performance she is the one to beat and all eyes will be on her.. 🏅

Although Rhasidat ran a sub par performance by her standards today she will regroup and be ready to go for it when the time matters without any pressure that she expected to medal!

Some huge jumps being made in PBs all over the place. Nickisha Pryce had never run sub 50 before 2024 and is now down to 48.5!!! Klaver has set two PBs in her last two races and is half a second quicker than she was in Rome. Kaczmarek has set 2 PBs and improved by half a second from last year. Meanwhile Rhasidat has improved by .13 from last year. I hope her team have timed it right and we will see an improvement similar to the others, or else something dodgy is going on. Pryce was running 53s just 2 years ago, 5 second improvements!!! Is older than Adeleke and was well behind her last year.

Said it before, but don't see Adeleke running the mixed relays, she has as much chance of an individual medal as a relay medal, so cant see her risking her individual chances for maybe a medal in relays.

Mixed relay final would be just one extra 400m race for her though. Also, you could imagine she would be absolutely kicking herself afterwards if she failed to medal in the 400m having decided not to run the mixed relay (assuming the team qualifies).

Very good article by Ian O’Riordan in yesterday’s Irish Times on Mary Purcell. Represented Ireland in 1972 and 1976 at the Olympics. She boycotted 1980 Moscow

I’d say the owl banned substances works much better to improve performance 😂😂

https://www.runnersworld.com/uk/nutrition/supplements/a44648010/maurten-bicarb-system/

You can't really throw, what in Irish are termed 'asachans' at everybody in the sport. That's just wrong. Alsways guessed Roger Bannister was on some sauce😉.

I read that it's more than 1%

My point was that it may partly explain the superlative performances we're saying across the board

You went off on a tangent about doping

It's very clear that times in many events have taken a recent leap

I am also not saying everyone who dropping times is dopping but I did make my point about Pryce improvements a relatively unknown athlete who never ran sub 50 until May and now she running 48.57 that a PB after a long NCAA season! 7th fastest ever … that crazy.

I read somewhere yesterday people were suspicious about Georgina Bell improvements after a massive PB yesterday in the 800m but she was a very talented junior athlete who gave up athletics and returned to the sport in her late 20s so I don’t believe she dopping!!

Do you post under 2 accounts? Your reply reads like you're replying for Water John. Sign in under the wrong account?