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Christian and Fred need to clean that handoff up, looked like Fred was asleep and didn't get away.

Gabby and TT almost blew it that was scary.

Yeah just watch the women. Gabby left way early on their exchange.

Also interested to see how they move things around for the final in the men. Who does Noah Lyles presumably come in for? Lindsey smoked everyone in the anchor which is typically Lyle's spot. Do you bump King and move Lindsey back into 3rd.

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wangus12 said:

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Yeah just watch the women. Gabby left way early on their exchange.

Also interested to see how they move things around for the final in the men. Who does Noah Lyles presumably come in for? Lindsey smoked everyone in the anchor which is typically Lyle's spot. Do you bump King and move Lindsey back into 3rd.

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Kenny Bednarek should be the 3rd leg! If Kerley keeps struggling with handoffs you could put Lindsey in his place, otherwise it's Coleman Kerley Bednarek and Lyles

Yeah the final squad I'd bet $100 will be Coleman Kerley Bednarek Lyles

taylorswift13_ said:

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He's getting paid 1.5 million a day to be there plus lodging and food…

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This number keeps going up. I've heard $500k/day and $1M/day.

T&F gonna have to sweep everything we're favored in to help USA keep pace with China

Pahdz said:

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Christian and Fred need to clean that handoff up, looked like Fred was asleep and didn't get away.

Gabby and TT almost blew it that was scary.

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I understand that the hand-off is important, but almost every top HS in Texas looks better than the USA. Is it just arrogance? Lack of focus? Lack of practice? You literally only have one job in a relay, assuming that you already know how to run fast. Pay attention and hand off a stick. Dogs do it just fine.

I know you are a knowledgeable running guy but HS relay teams are together for months as opposed to the couple weeks these guys get at "relay camp."

Mistakes happen, but if they want to win they gotta clean it up a bit. The second and third exchange was fine.

Pahdz said:

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I know you are a knowledgeable running guy but HS relay teams are together for months as opposed to the couple weeks these guys get at "relay camp."

Mistakes happen, but if they want to win they gotta clean it up a bit. The second and third exchange was fine.

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I know, but I've also seen Texas A&M screw it up a lot. The leaving early part and almost getting out of the zone is even more frustrating than dropping it. Anybody can fumble something tragically. I'm surprised you don't see more runners knock it out of their hands with their thighs. But leaving early? JUST PAY ATTENTION.

No doubt it's super frustrating.

Watch Japan in the zones they're incredible with passes.

USA T&F is renown for having terrible handoffs. Its really inexplicable at this point lol

Knock on wood it's been better in recent global events. Minus the inexplicable F up in the women's 4x400 recently (or was it the mixed...I forgot)

I've always thought our depth of athletes and just shear size is a liability for the relays. We're not Jamaica, for example, with a small group of elites who probably spend or have spent a lot of time training together, maybe with the same coach, and at most might be training across town on the other side of Kingston (I know their men don't advance today lol)

NM.

Tracking 4 potential golds this afternoon...

- W long jump
- M 100M hurdles
- M 200M
- W 400M hurdles

Am I missing any?

That's why I want Kung Fu Kenny to win tonight in the 200m

200M, lets get it on! I think Lyles breaks WR here

Pahdz said:

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Noah wearing a mask...get ready for sickness excuses if he loses. Sucks if he's not 100% though

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I took that as all show

I think Knighton or Kenny beat him. Also curious to see if Tebogo or Fahnbulleh can break up the Americans. Both are good enough to win it as well

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Pahdz said:

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That's a tad harsh. These guys care about the relay man.

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I don't have a strong opinion, but my wife was turned off how he ripped his name bib off and held it up following his win in the 100. Said "does he forget he is representing his country?"

I know these guys work their assess off and they want to win, but it can rub off negatively on the casual viewer and doesn't help with the narrative that they are all in it for themselves.

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From the first workout you ever do until the day they put you in the ground, you always run for you first. 99.9% of all runners at every level suffer in obscurity, doing one of the most difficult things possible for nothing more than their own satisfaction. One does not run to win; I tell my kids (one runs in college) that if you like winning, you picked a terrible sport. The only reward is tougher competition. If you become your best you and celebrate that, it always makes your team better. Lyles may not celebrate like I or you would, but we all know he is proud of himself AND the flag. Let's go!!

Lyles has to have a better start than he did in the Semis.

Botswana

Tebogo wins Gold easily. We needed that Gold badly

Damn

Wow! We all are wrong

Wow. He was absolutely moving.

Dang

now lyles is faking an injury