ELITETRACK Forum

Olympic Games 2008: Mens 400m Final

2008-08-21T09:41:42-05:00

I saw it coming with Merritt in for gold, while Jeremy Wariner took silver. I wonder what Wariner’s splits were like, the last 100m really didnt look good with maybe some slippage in form for him.

Also good leap from Neville, putting him in third place.

USA 1, 2, 3 sweep…

Brussels - Bolt wins again.

2008-09-05T14:31:36-05:00

Usain slips on the wet track and runs down Powell, running through the line into a -.9 wind in 9.77.

Results aren’t up yet, I’ll edit the OP when they are.

2008 USATF Oly Trials Sprint Analysis

2008-07-09T12:23:00-05:00

Mike:

Has HPC/USATF Dev completed the sprint data analysis from the Oly trials? If so, will you present the results here or will it be posted on another website?

Powell 9.72 wind legal

2008-09-02T16:35:25-05:00

Not very surprised by this, because the race has very little meaning.

Asafa shows he can be counted on to run world record challenging times if you invite him to run at your birthday party, but not the Olympics.

http://www.iaaf.org/gp08/results/eventCode=3927/sex=M/discCode=100/result.html#M100

Olympic Games 2008: USA bibs on men’s 4x1

2008-08-23T11:17:19-05:00

Does anyone know or have you heard the full story? Who or what was responsible for the homemade bibs on the biggest stagee in sport? I’m sure new USATF CEO Doug Logan was livid when he saw them walk out like that.

Olympic Games 2008: Bryan Clay wins Olympic Decathlon

2008-08-22T11:55:49-05:00

Congratulations to him winning the gold! Its too bad that 1500 kills him, if he ran a 4:30 or even slower he gets the world record.

Olympic Games 2008: U.S. in the 4x1…Called it

2008-08-21T22:22:24-05:00

Sorry to say, called both 4 x 1 results.

Might go to Saratoga tomorrow to see if my skills hold.

Olympic Games 2008: Men’s 200m Final

2008-08-20T10:53:23-05:00

Bolt 19.30m into -.9w

I anxiously await Mike’s Blog on how Bolt is not human once more . . .

Olympic Games 2008: Olympics Long Jump

2008-08-16T09:34:35-05:00

None of the USA guys came close to 8m (or Howe or Tomlinson). What is up with that? Random info I didn’t know: Quinley is coached by Mike Powell.

QUALIFICATION GROUP A
1 Loúis Tsátoumas GRE 8.27 (0.1) .
2 Ibrahim Camejo CUB 8.23 (0.5) .
3 Greg Rutherford GBR 8.16 (-0.1) .
4 Godfrey Khotso Mokoena RSA 8.14 (0.3) .
5 Hussein Taher Al-Sabee KSA 8.04 (-0.4) .
6 Luis Felipe Méliz ESP 7.95 (0.1) .
7 Gable Garenamotse BOT 7.95 (0.4) .
8 Stephan Louw NAM 7.93 (0.6) .
9 Tommi Evilä FIN 7.88 (0.2) .
9 Yahya Berrabah MAR 7.88 (0.1) .
11 Salim Sdiri FRA 7.81 (0.3) .
12 Sebastian Bayer GER 7.77 (0.0) .
13 Hugo Chila ECU 7.77 (0.2) .
14 Mauro Vinicius da Silva BRA 7.75 (-0.1) .
15 Runrun Li CHN 7.70 (0.2) (SB)
16 Morten Jensen DEN 7.63 (-0.1) .
17 Marcin Starzak POL 7.62 (-0.2) .
18 Henry Dagmil PHI 7.58 (0.0) .
19 Nikolay Atanasov BUL 7.54 (-0.5) .
20 Vladimir Malyavin RUS 7.35 (-0.1) .
. Issam Nima ALG DNS

QUALIFICATION GROUP B
1 Ngonidzashe Makusha ZIM 8.14 (0.0) .
2 Wilfredo Martínez CUB 8.07 (0.1) .
3 Ndiss Kaba Badji SEN 8.07 (-0.5) (SB)
4 Irving Saladino PAN 8.01 (0.2) .
5 Roman Novotný CZE 7.94 (-0.2) .
6 Mohamed Salman Al Khuwalidi KSA 7.93 (0.4) .
7 Tyrone Smith BER 7.91 (-0.1) .
8 Fabrice Lapierre AUS 7.90 (0.1) .
9 Trevell Quinley USA 7.87 (-0.2) .
10 Andrew Howe ITA 7.81 (-0.2) .
11 Brian Johnson USA 7.79 (-0.1) .
12 Andriy Makarchev UKR 7.77 (0.3) .
13 Christopher Tomlinson GBR 7.70 (0.2) .
14 Tarik Bouguetaïb MAR 7.69 (-0.1) .
15 Herbert McGregor JAM 7.64 (0.0) .
16 Louis Tristán PER 7.62 (0.3) .
17 Julien Fivaz SUI 7.53 (0.0) .
18 Miguel Pate USA 7.34 (0.4) .
. Can Zhou CHN NM .
. Arnaud Casquette MRI DNS

Olympic Games 2008: A tie in the women’s 100m and 100m Hurdles - Is this possible?

2008-08-19T15:28:56-05:00

I know it is possible but a “dead heat” in the women’s 100m final i.e. two silver medals awarded, YET in the women’s 110mH finals two athletes are shown as having the same time and two more are shown as having the same time .01 slower ie. 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th are .01 seconds separation [12.64 for 2nd/3rd, 12.65 for 4th/5th and for that matter 12.66 for 6th].
They waited for several minutes yet in the hurdle race they did “manage” to separate the competitors. Are you telling me in the other example they could not? I don’t know a lot about timing but as far as I know those systems can be “set” to increments smaller than .001 [if needed and I IMO Olympics are “needed”] and that should be enough to separate competitors i.e. there should be NO “dead heats”.