2009 Reebok GP: M-400m [Merritt 44,75]

[EPelle]

16.32 EST - M-400m: WL - 44,50 LaShawn Merritt (USA)
Entrants: Quow, Brown, Henry, Clement, Merritt, Chambers, Williams

[AthleticsInBritain]

44.75 for Merritt. He looked very easy doing it!

Looks a bit breezy in the stadium?

[bhall]

Finals                                                          
  1 LaShawn Merritt              United States            44.75 
  2 Rennie Quow                  Trinidad & Tobago        44.89 
  3 Chris Brown                  Bahamas                  45.04 
  4 Tabarie Henry                US Virgin Islands        45.10 
  5 Andrae Williams              Bahamas                  45.31 
  6 Kerron Clement               United States            45.76 
  7 Ricardo Chambers             Jamaica                  46.02 
  8 Randy Curry                  United States            46.86

[EPelle]

Clement needs to stay with the hurdles if this is his true form.

[trackdug]

Merritt didn't look very sharp. Quow was catching him at the end.

[Half Miler]

44.75 for Merritt. He looked very easy doing it!

Merritt didn't look very sharp

Not having seen the race, I'm a bit confused.

[AthleticsInBritain]

Well, I think Merritt took it easy, trackdug thinks he didn't look sharp. He didn't look very sluggish to me. Just my humble opinion!

[trackdug]

He didn't look easy at all...he looked slow over the first 200 and struggled down the homestretch

[einnod23]

He looked "floppy" the first 200.

[AthleticsInBritain]

How does anyone go from 20.07 in the 200m one week, to sluggish the next? OK, viruses, etc, but I've not heard of anything like that. I think he just took it easy in the first 200m because of the headwind in the back straight? The time is a bit slower than you'd expect though.

[gm]

Tough crowd...

[lilwayne1814]

MERRITT was just fine. He said the wind on the backstretch was very strong (hence his first 2) and he was in control down the straight. He had the race in hand and no reason to press.

[trackdug]

If the wind was so strong down the back straight, why did the women's 1500, 5000, 400 & 800m all produce the fastest times in the world this year? Face it, his time was pretty mediocre for this point in the year. JW beat Quow by .4 a couple of weeks ago and Merritt only beat him by .14 in this race.

[The Atheist]

How does anyone go from 20.07 in the 200m one week, to sluggish the next? OK, viruses, etc, but I've not heard of anything like that. I think he just took it easy in the first 200m because of the headwind in the back straight? The time is a bit slower than you'd expect though.

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[502CD]

If the wind was so strong down the back straight, why did the women's 1500, 5000, 400 & 800m all produce the fastest times in the world this year? Face it, his time was pretty mediocre for this point in the year. JW beat Quow by .4 a couple of weeks ago and Merritt only beat him by .14 in this race.

That doesn't mean anything at this point.