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Her final 80m is immense - she’s really worked hard on her strength, and it shows. If she can attack the first half a bit more, she’ll be up there with Jessie
One of the difficulties of predicting how performances will develop during the season is that all judgements in the run up to globals are made based on one off races, and the field events don't have qualification rounds either.
Many fine athletes struggle with putting in fine efforts with 3 rounds.This years predictions will be very tricky, maybe.
Anna Purchase stands as the best of the Brits half way through the NCAA hammer competition with 69.34 and is currently in 6th place. Tara SS and Amy Phillips are 14th and 15th with 65.86 and 65.53 respectively.
Everyone ahead of her got a pb, pity Anna couldn't, but there again she only managed two valid throws out of 6. (Canada's Camryn Rogers won with a hugely impressive 77.67)
Elise Thorner and Ellie Leather are through to the NCAA Steeple & 1500 finals respectively, Leather as a fastest loser.
Chasing BYU's Courtney Wayment (9:23 PB) in the final would be the perfect opportunity for Thorner to get the Worlds standard.
OK, I'm off to bed now! Hope to be able to catch the rest of the action via https://www.youtube.com/user/brunt2000/videos which posted most of the races from Day 1 (I've also linked this in the Live Streaming Links document).
Dina’s second 100 was much better, she’ll be at her best in Eugene IMO. Very impressed by Britany Anderson in the womens hurdles, she was very close to JCQ for most of that race before hitting the final hurdle. 12.37 was pretty quick for a cool evening
100% agreed. If I was any of her competitors, that run would have worried me a little. E.g. in 2018, 6 weeks before running 21.89 at Euros she ran 22.25. Yesterday she ran 22.27. Given her history of peaking well, we should expect (with no injuries!) a 21.8 or 21.9 equivalent in Eugene, and the big question would be what that would get her. No-one has ever run 21.9 in a major final and not won a medal.
None of the Brits in the W 400 as fast as Alice Mangione (ITA) who ran a 51.47 PB from the "slow" section. One more W 400 later today including Pipi, Clark, Klaver, Healy etc.
"Live" Results not updating for me but I spied that on the trackside clock.
The comms are having the same problem - with no startlists updating online either (only entry lists) there's lots of "Lane 3 is closing hard on Lane 5 ... but now Lane 2 is finishing really fast".
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