2022 Outdoors

[marilyn1]

If you have aspirations of winning the w 200 at a global champs then, as I've said before, i think you have to be targeting the world record. I think Dasher gets this. If she is in peak condition the target is the world record.

Your enthusiasm is touching,but there is no way in this world that DAS or any current runner will beat 21.34 secs.
DAS will have a fight to make the finals top 6.

[paul]

Why? LOL i guess you are having a pessimistic day!

[paul]

If you have aspirations of winning the w 200 at a global champs then, as I've said before, i think you have to be targeting the world record. I think Dasher gets this. If she is in peak condition the target is the world record.

[Chafford1]

Our two, and I assume you mean DAS and DN, should put their main focus on the European Championships.

[paul]

And I will be super happy if we have representation in both the 100 and 200 finals. Even if they don't medal. Hopefully two in the 100.

[paul]

Its gonna be exciting!
(...Is my super-sophisticated analysis.)

[Chafford1]

On the Eugene track with a nice tail wind maybe 21
45 is possible.. I worry about Steiner.She is an NCAA athlete. Has she been and is properly tested.??

I wouldn't worry about Steiner. A very strong athlete who has run more than 50 races since the start of the year. US indoor 200m record earlier this year, then 21.80 at the Collegiate Championships followed by 21.80 and 21.77 at the USATFs. She can also run 10.90 at 100m and is a great 400m relay runner. If she maintains her form over the next 3 weeks, a likely silver medalist over 200m beyind Jackson.

[marilyn1]

Mboma has a physical advantage over other athletes with her elevated testosterone.
Is that vastly different than some of the freaks that compete in athletics, like a 6 foot 4 female triple jumper,all legs and poor technique, or a 2 metre tall and 20 stone mountainous shot putter who is an OG champion.?

[marilyn1]

Shericka Jackson 21.55 with zero wind in the Jamaican Champs 200... wow. ETH 2nd and SAFP 3rd.

On the Eugene track with a nice tail wind maybe 21
45 is possible.. I worry about Steiner.She is an NCAA athlete. Has she been and is properly tested.??

[beergut]

Shericka Jackson 21.55 with zero wind in the Jamaican Champs 200... wow. ETH 2nd and SAFP 3rd.

[Occasional Hope]

Sifan Hassan is also conspicuous by her absence this year.

[drobbie]

Another athlete who was injured is Mboma. Nothing has been heard about her, in the last few weeks.

good, hopefully she will be banned soon

[RunUnlimited]

beergut
Exactly right.

To Richardson: Amazing, you managed to run super fast as a teenager. So did a bunch of other super-talented U20s down the years, like Kaylin Whitney and a laundry list of others. A large chunk of them never did anything in the professional ranks, for a whole host of different reasons.

Just because you set a world junior record that was comparable with times being run by senior athletes, then in your first year as a pro you ran even faster, doesn't mean you've achieved anything of note in sprinting. All you've done is run fast. Until you get some medals around your neck and have stood on the top step of an Olympic or World Championship podium, all that brash talk and bravado is all it is, talk.

More often that not, when she has run against the world's best sprinters on an equal footing, Richardson has come off second best, even third or fourth best. And that's not exactly matching up with her own highly elevated opinion of herself.

[marilyn1]

Grant Holloway skipped the final (presumably as he has a wild card), but the surprise was that both Devon Allen and Trey Cunningham were beaten by Daniel Roberts.

One of the major surprises this week end..

[marilyn1]

Another athlete who was injured is Mboma. Nothing has been heard about her, in the last few weeks.