London 4x100 relay

[robertmgross]

Although the US 4x100 relay team tied the former world record, does any beleive that if they ran Gay, Gatlin, and the hurdles, Merritt and Richarson, would the US have closed the gap on the Jamaican team?

[Flumpy]

Re: London 4x100 relay

No.

[tandfman]

Re: London 4x100 relay

I don't know if anyone believes it, but I'm with Flumpy--I don't.

[jazzcyclist]

Re: London 4x100 relay

No, I don't see either one of them matching Bailey's 9.88. Besides, they could have close the gap on the Jamaicans just by havong a better second exchange.

[gh]

Re: London 4x100 relay

Good grief! Bailey was 5th in the 100. Does anybody remotely think that either Merritt or Richardson has anything near that kind of leg speed?

[jazzcyclist]

Re: London 4x100 relay

Good grief! Bailey was 5th in the 100. Does anybody remotely think that either Merritt or Richardson has anything near that kind of leg speed?

No thinking person.

[Riff80]

Re: London 4x100 relay

Man I wish everyone would just leave it alone with Aries and open 100 speed. I've been watching Aries since his days at Wheeler HS and he is just not as fast in the open 100, but he's always been able to roll over those hurdles, even to those summer youth days of battling with Dexter Faulk.

[jazzcyclist]

Re: London 4x100 relay

Man I wish everyone would just leave it alone with Aries and open 100 speed. I've been watching Aries since his days at Wheeler HS and he is just not as fast in the open 100, but he's always been able to roll over those hurdles, even to those summer youth days of battling with Dexter Faulk.

I don't know what Merritt's flat speed is today, but he's no doubt a lot faster today than he was in high school.

[Riff80]

Re: London 4x100 relay

Man I wish everyone would just leave it alone with Aries and open 100 speed. I've been watching Aries since his days at Wheeler HS and he is just not as fast in the open 100, but he's always been able to roll over those hurdles, even to those summer youth days of battling with Dexter Faulk.

I don't know what Merritt's flat speed is today, but he's no doubt a lot faster today than he was in high school.

I hope that was a joke, because of course he's faster today than he was in high school, just as he was faster in college than he was in high school, and he's faster as a pro than he was in college. That still doesn't put him with the elite flat sprinters of today, when people are talking about putting him on an Olympic 4 x 100. The hurdlers used to have fun and run all hurdlers in relays sometimes so maybe they can do that at on of the relays meets.

[aaronk]

Re: London 4x100 relay

All this talk about Merritt's 100 speed, does anyone know what the fastest 100 is for a FULL TIME 110H guy??
Ditto for a 100H gal!!

To qualify, one must have the hurdles as their PRIMARY event!!

P.S. My guess is it's either Terrence Trammell or Mark McKoy for the guys, and maybe Gail Devers for the women. (Was she primarily a hurdler??)

[Pego]

Re: London 4x100 relay

All this talk about Merritt's 100 speed, does anyone know what the fastest 100 is for a FULL TIME 110H guy??
Ditto for a 100H gal!!

To qualify, one must have the hurdles as their PRIMARY event!!

P.S. My guess is it's either Terrence Trammell or Mark McKoy for the guys, and maybe Gail Devers for the women. (Was she primarily a hurdler??)

Tony Dees was pretty fast.

[Davidokun]

Re: London 4x100 relay

All this talk about Merritt's 100 speed, does anyone know what the fastest 100 is for a FULL TIME 110H guy??
Ditto for a 100H gal!!

To qualify, one must have the hurdles as their PRIMARY event!!

P.S. My guess is it's either Terrence Trammell or Mark McKoy for the guys, and maybe Gail Devers for the women. (Was she primarily a hurdler??)

Submitted for your consideration, but certainly not authoritative.

Men:

• Dwight Thomas 10.00 (Before he focused on the hurdles?)[/*:m:czx7t8sn]
• Andrew Riley 10.02[/*:m:czx7t8sn]
• Terrence Trammell 10.04[/*:m:czx7t8sn]
• Mark McCoy 10.08[/*:m:czx7t8sn]
• Willie Gault 10.10[/*:m:czx7t8sn]

Women:

• Gail Devers 10.82[/*:m:czx7t8sn]
• Glory Alozie 10.90[/*:m:czx7t8sn]
• Ludmila Engquist 11.04[/*:m:czx7t8sn]

[Dutra5]

Re: London 4x100 relay

Man I wish everyone would just leave it alone with Aries and open 100 speed. I've been watching Aries since his days at Wheeler HS and he is just not as fast in the open 100, but he's always been able to roll over those hurdles, even to those summer youth days of battling with Dexter Faulk.

I don't know what Merritt's flat speed is today, but he's no doubt a lot faster today than he was in high school.

So's them otha guyz.

[toyracer]

Re: London 4x100 relay

Submitted for your consideration, but certainly not authoritative.

Men:
[list][*]Dwight Thomas 10.00 (Before he focused on the hurdles?)

If memory serves, DT also did hurdles (certainly did it at Champs) prior to concentrating on the 100m and to a lesser extent the 200m for a few years.

[jamboy]

Re: London 4x100 relay

It doesn't matter what combination the US uses, they were not going to beat Jamaica.

Also, it wasn't Jamaica's best team. If we had a healthy Asafa, the record would have been 36.50.