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I see both SAFP and ETH are listed in the 100m. But we know one will be a no-show, or if they both show up they'll be running different heats and one...

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Experience may not have helped her back then, but she still doesn't have the experience, and that race didn't add much to her experience.

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Exactly. That one race, where she couldn't handle them, wasn't a very useful addition to her experience. She just doesn't have the experience of to deal...

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It's proof that she doesn't have the experience to do it....

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It's not only about having the smartness to position and pace herself properly in a pack, it's also about having the ability to dig in and kick ahead...

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Whoever the other Olympic women will be, Mu doesn't (yet) have a Rudisha-sized end-to-end speed advantage over them, so a Rudisha-style strategy won't...

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That can work in the NCAA and US trials, but the women in Tokyo will force her to run in a pack, or they'll pass her in the last 200m if she takes off...

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USC needs better 400m hurdle coaches*. Or top 400m hurdlers need to go elsewhere.

Under their watch, the world record holder could not break...

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Laird is faster now, yes. But I was mainly addressing the Boling detractors who were saying things like Laird was "born ready" or Boling should...

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Maybe, maybe not. Let's see how they compare in 2023....

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His +5.6 wind-aided time was 19.64....

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Could be a combination of coaching changes and untested improvement in 2020. Before LSU he was at Hinds Community College and Penn State....

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What is Fahnbulleh's height? He looks like a giant sometimes.

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Not really. Laird is 2 years older than Boling, and Boling is already faster than Laird was 2 years ago. Laird's PRs coming into this season were 10.33...

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Proponents of cryptocurrencies will often point out that governments devalue fiat currency by printing arbitrary amounts of it, whereas cryptocurrencies...

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I wish the CDC had waited another month or so before releasing the no-mask announcement, to give more people a chance to get themselves fully vaccinated...

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They need to be taking advice from somebody, because they don't know what the heck they're doing when it comes to efficient vaccine distribution....

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Not every reason is worthy of outrage.

If a women's pro league or team goes kaput due to insufficient revenue, what is the justification...

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Are their hospitals really near the breaking point when all of Japan has only about 7000 cases per day, of which presumably less than 1/3 require hospitalization?...

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If they unify to get every adult resident of Tokyo vaccinated before the Games, along with every official and volunteer and athlete, they can do that...