Skipping college if you have that opportunity seems strange to me especially if you get a scholarship. I mean, how many hours a day can you train if you are a sprinter? I could see training for the decathlon being full time for a while. To be a runner full time seems to be really limiting yourself, especially if you have a bad injury.
She's gorgeous.
When you are Lyles or Knighton, I suspect a shoe company hands you a nice check the moment you turn pro (and when you are Noah Lyles, they also hand your brother a nice contract).
Not common, also add Hobbs Kessler (1500m) to that list (came in somewhere around 5th). But, a lot of the most talented will be a one or two and done (Shecarri, Sydney). If Tyreek Hill didn’t play football, he might have been in that category. (He ran 20.16 200m in high school, but that’s way behind Knighton at that age (19.49).
Or worse, lacrosse.
Oof I saw that live on TV and I am not going to lie, I cringed with a facial expression similar to one of those characters from those Garbage Pail Kid sticker cards.
She clearly looks like she has to pull back to keep stride for the hurdles. She’s really close to WR it seems to me.
Carl Lewis had a good point. Why did they reorder the runners when they could have just replaced the anchor Lyles?
I think the marathon's on Sunday, so 2 days away. At least 1 of the 10k runners is also running the marathon!
I believe the women’s marathon is Sunday the 11th. The men’s marathon is tomorrow the 10th.
Just watched it. Kung (Phooey!) Bednarek on the 2nd leg left way too early. He took like 4 steps before anyone else moved. The US was ahead but not by that much, and then he had to slow down and it was over.
I had the same exact thought, too. Not that I have any following where millions of people read my posts, but I just didn't want to call the dude out by name because I felt bad for him because I wanted him personally to get his first gold medal. But Ato Boldin, the TV analyst, bluntly said it, "that was a disaster". USA got DQed. Even without the DQ they finished last.
Right, a good handoff and speed will win it. And the order doesn't really matter when they are each only sprinting 9 seconds each. It really is something to watch when they make really good handoffs with no drop in speed.
IIRC, the 10k is often the first weekend with the 5K and marathon the second weekend. Although maybe I just have the women mixed up with the men (on trend for this Olympics).
Benjamin looked so smooth and running easy compared to the Norwegian Warholm who was pumping his arms like crazy.
I believe one difference between the men and women besides the women winning is that it was raining harder during the women's event. This may have caused them to be more cautious on baton exchange.
yea that caught my attention as well
I was reacting to what I thought I heard the 10K announcer say, which was an Ethiopian 10K runner was ready to run marathon tomorrow.I think the marathon's on Sunday, so 2 days away. At least 1 of the 10k runners is also running the marathon!