re: Track and Field thread: Final country scoreboard updated in op

Pedro, what event was the Mexico 1 base point in? Just curious

American 4x400 women had the biggest lead since Secretariat at Belmont.

Men’s shot. 8th place

Yea the Dutch had a great meet. Hissan and Bol did work for them

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Men’s shot. 8th place

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Thanks. I was just looking over the OP list and it's just so strange overall. St. Lucia, of about 200K pop vs. millions and millions more. Mexico should honestly never ever be this shitty every year. They should basically be Kenya.

She would’ve had heats of the hurdles next day.

Also that would’ve made it 5 400s. (2 relays, 3 hurdles). With 3 of those races being ones that are in the 3 events that get brought up in conversations for “hardest track event”

Also everyone submits their teams at the same time. Unless the Dutch told us there was no way to know for sure femke was going to be in that race. And there was absolutely zero reason to run syd if femke doesn’t run.

Also femke looked like complete garbage in that 400 hurdle race. Say what you want but it’s entirely possible the relay hurt her. Now does that mean it would’ve been the same for syd? No but something to consider.

Also I’d be shocked if siffan is anywhere near close to as good as she could be in the marathon tomorrow. Respect to her for trying but all of that running has to take a toll on her at some point. If she’s even close to medaling tomorrow I’ll eat crow but my bet is by mile 16 she’s fading hard.

Probably. However there’s the chance that we don’t. If I had to bet I would’ve bet gold in all 3 but the odds in the other two definitely would’ve went down some. I’ve run a lot of track in my life and have done some hard doubles/triples/quads. I wouldn’t want anything to do with 2 open 400s and 3 400 hurdle races in the span of a week.

Again no one knew for sure if femke would run that race until they came out the tunnel. If you don’t think she’s going to run there’s no reason to run syd there. And hell even with femke running that same team just set the world record the night before. There was no real reason to mess with it.

Kersee is also a very conservative coach when it comes to Sydney’s mileage. He has pretty much said she will never do two individual events in a major tournament, just one and the 4x400.

And the US relay coaches will defer to Kersee on this.

Very interesting development in Paris. Bryce Hoppel may be getting a bronze medal at some point.

Sedjati, the Algerian runner who got bronze and has put up some amazing times this summer, and his head coach both had their hotel rooms investigated by anti-doping officials on Thursday.