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15 hours ago, Grassmarket said:

If this was the US relay team…..somebody would be persuaded to go down with COVID.

It is just bad timing for him. To be fair I don’t think anyone was flagging this as a miss by the selectors when they announced the team, Sam has knocked over a second off his PB and unfortunately really made many members of the selected relay squad look pedestrian. 
 

Still in case anyone goes down with a niggle now, he is there to be swapped in! A 4x4 team of MHS, Dobson, Reardon and Carvell would be seriously threatening to the US.

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38 minutes ago, RussB said:

It is just bad timing for him. To be fair I don’t think anyone was flagging this as a miss by the selectors when they announced the team, Sam has knocked over a second off his PB and unfortunately really made many members of the selected relay squad look pedestrian. 
 

Still in case anyone goes down with a niggle now, he is there to be swapped in! A 4x4 team of MHS, Dobson, Reardon and Carvell would be seriously threatening to the US.

do you really believe that?

 

I mean, their no.4 (Norwood) yesterday went 44.1 (and they also have someone named Rai Benjamin available)

 

unless the US guys do something stupid in the changeovers, I don't think they're under threat by any mean

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1 hour ago, phelps said:

do you really believe that?

 

I mean, their no.4 (Norwood) yesterday went 44.1 (and they also have someone named Rai Benjamin available)

 

unless the US guys do something stupid in the changeovers, I don't think they're under threat by any mean

Relative to previous Games i absolutely do. If they are in the race and can get on the shoulder then relays are not just a pure time trial, see 1991 worlds for prime example.

 

ps. I'd still have US as firm favs just to be clear.

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23 hours ago, Grassmarket said:

Bit of thread archaelogy for next week in Lausanne, here’s the timetable.

 

https://lausanne.diamondleague.com/en/programme-results-lausanne/

Just a bump for this: provisional entry lists now being populated.

 

Qualification for Tokyo Worlds 2025 started before Paris, so a first chance to those who weren’t in fast races in Paris to get a mark set in a paced race.

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20 hours ago, Monzanator said:

Silesia is obviously the region and the meeting is in Chorzów ;)

 

I presume that name Silesia is easier to pronounce so that's why they advert it like that.

Plus to honour the fact that it now has its own language.

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