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Mixed 4x400 relay - surprised it was all men on the first and last legs, and all women on the middle two. This contrasts with swimming where it was all mixed up amongst the different teams. Was this mandatory for the running and if so why, or did all countries just decide to do the same thing?
 
platinumsage said:
Mixed 4x400 relay - surprised it was all men on the first and last legs, and all women on the middle two. This contrasts with swimming where it was all mixed up amongst the different teams. Was this mandatory for the running and if so why, or did all countries just decide to do the same thing?
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Nigeria (I think) were the only team to do anything different in the semis, and you'll note they're not in the final... ;)

I think regardless of men's, women's or mixed, the general relay wisdom is you put your best on the last leg, second best on the first? Or might be the other way round... :hmm:

Anyway, I get the sense it's basically transposing the standard relay theory to another form of the race, essentially.
 
Hm, still not sure what I think about making quite so much theatre of things just ahead of the race.

It's very impressive and atmospheric, certainly, but sports people routinely say that at once the big race/match/whatever is close "they just want to get on with it", and so all this pomp and circumstance seems a little...

Eh, s'up to the athletes, and I'm certainly not saying there should be no sense of occasion at all, just maybe do the light show before you bring the athletes out?

Aaaaaaaanyway, let's go racing!
 
Lord Camomile said:
Sort of on a theme, I could have sworn I remembered a more recent occasion where GBR beat USA in the 4x400m (on the track, so not '97) but a not-so-quick trawl through the records suggests not. I might be remembering the 4x100m instead.
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The men's 4*100 in Athens 2004? The Americans fucked up one changeover and Mark Lewis-Francis just held on for gold. That must've been just before Jamaica got their sprinting shit together.

Highlight of the day was the Swedes in the men's discus. They got a one-two, and both of them briefly started sprinting down the home straight to celebrate, before realising they weren't really built for that.
 
QueenOfGoths said:
Wow, wow, wow! Karsten Warholm was phenomenal in the men's 400m hurdles.

I thought the American athlete might catch him but he just found another gear.
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It was amazing and a great race.

But 3/4 of a second cut off the world record????

Those new spikes certainly do a job.
 
strung out said:
He doesn't wear them

amp.theguardian.com

Karsten Warholm criticises super spikes as threat to track and field ‘credibility’

Olympic 400m hurdle gold medallist Karsten Warholm has slammed Nike’s super spikes for taking ‘credibility away from our sport’
amp.theguardian.com amp.theguardian.com
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Interesting. Reminds me of Ben Johnson slamming Carl Lewis (I think?) and drugs in sport about 3 seconds before he got caught.

But really, I hope he's clean. I really do. It's just that 3/4 of a second off a record that has stood since 1992 has to be questioned. But good luck to him.
 
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