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I'd be a lot more excited about this if the weather forecast were better. Saturday and Sunday highs are supposed to be 50-51F (10-11C) and there's an 80% probability of precip on Saturday (when the men's 400 will be run).
Unfortunately the weather has been poor for weeks now, cold end of August and it's not gotten better since. Normally the sun is always shining around those days and the conditions are great, this year not so much. I'm still hoping it will get better, but chances are very small for that to happen despite the forecast being off sometimes in recent days/weeks.
Having won both the OT and OG, LM could lose 45.99 to JW's 42.99WR and LM will still be #1.
Err What?
The Trials race is, first and foremost, a race to qualify, so it a victory, while important, is not quite on the same level; my ranking is OG, nothing (i.e., a gap), WAF, OT. It seems unlikely that JW will come out ahead, but a venerable WR is not to be scoffed at. BUt given the weather and the season, were not going to see a 43.1, much less a 42.xx.
I would have thought Merritt, with his much faster 200m speed, would be a better candidate to break Johnson's WR/run 42.xx. However, now we all know that Bolt is the athlete to do that ... When was the last time a non-US athlete held the WR? I know it's pre-1968.
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