Clueless writing about our sport

[TN1965]

So which "first place" did McLauchlin claim at the 2019 World Championships? Are they talking about 4x4 relay?

[gh]

Ummm. Dalilah Muhammad might have something to say about this.

The 10 young Americans bound to become household names at the Tokyo Olympics

Five years later, a polished McLaughlin, who claimed first place at the 2019 IAAF World Athletics Championships, is a heavy favorite to bring a medal to the United States.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/10-young-...153844545.html

at 31, I'm afraid Muhammad no longer qualifies as "young," which was the thrust of the piece

[TN1965]

Ummm. Dalilah Muhammad might have something to say about this.

The 10 young Americans bound to become household names at the Tokyo Olympics

Five years later, a polished McLaughlin, who claimed first place at the 2019 IAAF World Athletics Championships, is a heavy favorite to bring a medal to the United States.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/10-young-...153844545.html

[Trickstat]

I found this about the USC athlete, Nicole Yeargin, who has a Scottish mother. According to the article, she is hoping to compete at the Tokyo Olympics for Scotland:

https://priceschool.usc.edu/usc-pric...okyo-olympics/

Of course, Scotland are part of the UK for the Olympics. Next year's Commonwealth Games is a possibility though.

[wamego relays champ]

Always good to see track & field in mainstream media, but the claim by footballer Todd Gurley that he "accidentally" made Team USA for the 2011 World Youth Championships on "damn-near no prep" seems unlikely. Five weeks prior he was NC HS 2A State Champion, and two weeks prior he competed at the New Balance HS Nationals.

https://www.tmz.com/2020/11/12/todd-...k-team-in-h-s/

Very likely that he did not take track & field seriously, but hard to believe that he did not know he was going to the World Youth Trials. His expectations might have been very low (since he did not make the final at NBN), so winning the WYT could have been surprising.

[Trickstat]

Chinese teen finishes 100m sprint in 12.07 seconds, video breaks the internet

In a very truncated season with no championships of any kind, 3 British 15 year old girls ran quicker than 12.07.

[Atticus]

Chinese teen finishes 100m sprint in 12.07 seconds, video breaks the internet

So whadya get for (2019 US HS list) sub-11.50?

11.27	**Tamari Davis
11.36	**Kenondra Davis
11.44	***Jayla Jamison

[wamego relays champ]

Chinese teen finishes 100m sprint in 12.07 seconds, video breaks the internet

https://news.cgtn.com/news/2020-11-1...ceY/index.html

Fifteen-year-old Lu Qirui from Hangzhou City, east China's Zhejiang Province, has become an overnight social media sensation after a video showed her finishing a 100-meter sprint in an astonishing 12.07 seconds. These numbers are good enough to perch her on the No. 8 spot at the national-level championships.

Huh? Astonishing? For a 15 year-old?

[wamego relays champ]

Clueless headline writing:

Headline - Miller-Uibo attacks WADA over Naser’s acquittal in doping case

WADA had absolutely nothing to do with the Naser case.

https://guardian.ng/sport/miller-uib...n-doping-case/

Even worse, the story itself correctly indicates that in her Instagram post Miller-Uibo says she is pleased that WADA may be considering an appeal to have the Naser decision reversed. How the headline writer chose to conclude SMU was attacking WADA is a real head-scratcher.

[tandfman]

Clueless headline writing:

Headline - Miller-Uibo attacks WADA over Naser’s acquittal in doping case

WADA had absolutely nothing to do with the Naser case.

https://guardian.ng/sport/miller-uib...n-doping-case/

[gm]

This -- https://twitter.com/ChrisChavez/stat...243715/photo/1 -- shows the results I was working from when I wrote that brief.

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[Atticus]

Got me again! You're the best at that. 😀 I will confess to being careless. Clueless? OK, sure, why not.

Look at it this way: you were off by 0 seconds!

[gm]

USATF is guilty of this one. The story is now linked on the front page is from the USATF website; it's a report of the Michigan Pro Half-Marathon, which was held yesterday. The story includes this:



The problem is that in the story, there's a link to the official results of the race, and those results show Lara beating Day for second place, with both timed in 62.17.

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Got me again! You're the best at that. 😀

I will confess to being careless. Clueless? OK, sure, why not.

[tandfman]

USATF is guilty of this one. The story is now linked on the front page is from the USATF website; it's a report of the Michigan Pro Half-Marathon, which was held yesterday. The story includes this:

Morgan Pearson won a very close men’s race in his debut at the distance, clocking 62:15 to hold off Tyler Day (62:16), Frank Lara (62:17) and Scott Fauble (62:18).

The problem is that in the story, there's a link to the official results of the race, and those results show Lara beating Day for second place, with both timed in 62.17.

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[gm]

My HS track coach would rattle off repetition splits as 66,67,68 and if there was a straggler he'd say something like "6:30pm". Sometimes he'd use a date. "Smith Nov.4th!"

I had no idea I was your high school coach!