Relays

thirtyfoot

They are starting now. This is the bit where all the mammys go "I love the relays, they are my favourite". Lets home JAM and USA get through in both 4 x 100.

thirtyfoot

USA are idiots, I cannot believe it.

Pherekydes

The USA and Nigeria gone. You can always depend on the relays for such fun!

Trinidad have a great chance of chasing home the Jamaicans (should the Jamaicans qualify )

robinph

The USA are consistantly bad at relays. They generally have a good fast four runners, but not any good at handovers in the 4x100m's

Racing Flat

Pherekydes wrote: »

The USA and Nigeria gone. You can always depend on the relays for such fun!

Trinidad have a great chance of chasing home the Jamaicans (should the Jamaicans qualify )

Imagine if the West Indies was a team!!!

thirtyfoot

Are the Brits gone?

Racing Flat

Why? Finished 2nd - did they go outside the zone?

robinph

Bugger.

Racing Flat

I love watching Powell run when the presure's off. Can see him going 9.68 in one of the remaining GP's (depending on who else is in the field of course).

Pherekydes

Pickering had a rush of blood to the head, there! See his reaction as he took the baton.

Jamaicans safely through. Bring on the big lad!

thirtyfoot

Racing Flat wrote: »

Why? Finished 2nd - did they go outside the zone?

Its tight!

thirtyfoot

Pherekydes wrote: »

Bring on the big lad!

Love it!! The big lad, brilliant.

robinph

Cram and co reckon it's out but the judges didn't notice so it's down to the Germans to complain I think.

thirtyfoot

robinph wrote: »

Germans to complain I think.

No doubt they will. GBR will be DQ'ed, then re-instated, then re-DQ'ed, thats how it usually goes.

robinph

Looks like he did have contact with the batton on the line, but not enough I think.

Racing Flat

Tingle wrote: »

Are the Brits gone?

Great spot.

thirtyfoot

This is why the mammys love the relays.

robinph

USA women out as well.

Pherekydes

Hilarious! USA women out too!

thirtyfoot

Some craic, the USA gone now in the womens. They probably get more baton practice than any other nation in the world in college and always blow it.

Funkyzeit

Carnage !!! Great fun to watch!

shels4ever

That was some few mins of footage...

eclectichoney

+1. The women's USA team looked well p***** about it too. I thought it was going to get violent between the two of them at one stage!

Racing Flat

A bit premature, but I wonder if the 4 x 400 record might be under threat?

if they get the baton around of course.

Racing Flat

Pity we won't get the USA v Jamaica showdowns though. The build-up and posturing would have been great.

bobcar61

GBR mens relay team were disqualified.

Neither the mens or the womens US team got through

Gyalist

The sprint relays as a metaphor of US society. Discuss.

Gyalist

Racing Flat wrote: »

Pity we won't get the USA v Jamaica showdowns though. The build-up and posturing would have been great.

the real race was always going to be Jamaica vs T&T. T&T have been the quickest all year.

shels4ever

They are gone,

thirtyfoot

The Jamrockettes look so good.

mike65

Gyalist wrote: »

The sprint relays as a metaphor of US society. Discuss.

Same reason thier Ryder Cup team is pish-poor compared to Europes. As individuals they are fine, as a group they suck.

Mike.

robinph

Trinidad, Canada and France also drop the batton in the last heat. That's a crazy amount of teams disqualified in each of the relays.

Edit: That was Ukraine actually by the looks of it.

Fast_Mover

Jaysus, the relays were just pure carnage!
Can't wait for the finals!:D

Gyalist

It's the second Olympics in a row that Lauryn Williams has dropped the baton.

Pherekydes

The Jamaicans and the Brits mess up in the women's 4x1!

Did the Jamaicans take the Brits out?

Nope, they both messed up.

Gifts for the Russians and the Belgians.

juvenal

Yeah, they cocked up in the second transfer. I think they went into GB's lane, but they were in the middle of their own mess so it didn't affect them.

1. Russia
2. Belgium
3. Nigeria

Disaster for the Jamaicans, they looked very strong thru the first 200m.

Will be interesting to see if the men can hold onto it! 3.15pm Irish time I believe.

robinph

Looked like the Jamcians ran into the British pair just before they ran out of the box, but they had already missed on their first attempt to hand over at that point so no excuse really.

thirtyfoot

juvenal wrote: »

2. Belgium
.

Delighted for Kim Gaevert.

juvenal

Tingle wrote: »

Delighted for Kim Gaevert.

Yeah, and she's retiring at the end of the season - nice way to finish

Edit: The men's 4x100m relay starts at 3.10pm Irish time, not 3.15pm as I said earlier.

juvenal

1. open (season best)
2. China (38.81)
3. Brazil (38.76)
4. Trinidad & Tobago (38.00)
5. Jamaica (38.31)
6. Canada (38.72)
7. Japan (38.52)
8. Netherlands (38.87)
9. Germany (38.48)

WR is 37.40.

LordSutch

Absolute disaster for the GBR team in the womens 4x100m, nearly guaranteed a silver behind the jamacans (who drop their batton), team GBR have a chance, then drop theirs too in the baton change ..............

Whats going on with Baton changes this Olympics? Both US 400m teams (Men & Women) drop their batons and go out, now the Jamacans & British drop theirs too in the womens 4x100m Final

What Next ?

juvenal

The US analysts suggested that the US have almost too many options when it came to sprinting, and they never had time to gel in practise, as it might be someone different depending on performances. May or may not be valid.

I do know that the USATF boss resigned in January after 10 years, and the new guy is promising an "FAI-style" report on what went wrong this year at the Olympics.

Anyway - to all the Jamaican fans out there, according to the start list the team is Nesta Carter, Michael Frater, Usain Bolt, and Asafa Powell. Not sure that they're running in that order, I would've expected Bolt to run the second leg.

robinph

Johnson was saying that the relay coaches don't actually tend to care anything about the relays as they are only ever in charge for a year and it sounds like they are appointed based on if their college team did well that year in more of an honourary position.

Pherekydes

juvenal wrote: »

Anyway - to all the Jamaican fans out there, according to the start list the team is Nesta Carter, Michael Frater, Usain Bolt, and Asafa Powell. Not sure that they're running in that order, I would've expected Bolt to run the second leg.

Nope, the correct order should be Powell, Frater, Bolt, Carter.

The first and third legs are the longest.

thirtyfoot

Pherekydes wrote: »

Nope, the correct order should be Powell, Frater, Bolt, Carter.

The first and third legs are the longest.

What? I'd go Frater, Bolt, Carter, Powell to get Bolt on the 2nd and the two acceleration zones.

juvenal

Pherekydes wrote: »

Nope, the correct order should be Powell, Frater, Bolt, Carter.

The first and third legs are the longest.

Is that backwards or did I misunderstand? I would think Powell will run the anchor leg. And it looks like Bolt will be running third.

cfitz

Pherekydes wrote: »

Nope, the correct order should be Powell, Frater, Bolt, Carter.

The first and third legs are the longest.

I heard Bolt was going third and Powell fourth.

thirtyfoot

juvenal wrote: »

Nesta Carter, Michael Frater, Usain Bolt, and Asafa Powell. .

Seems to be this alright.

thirtyfoot

WR, yes or no?

thirtyfoot

Oh yessssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss!

juvenal

What a run!

New WR by Jamaica!

1. Jamaica 37.10 - three tenths of a second!
2. Trinidad & Tobago 38.06
3. Japan