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Day Two of the 2021 British Track & Field Championships starts in four hours from now.
Jenna eases off and still runs 21.99 with a -0.3 wind. She is a favourite to win and win an Olympic Medal.
Matt Boling should make it through to the Men’s 200m Final. I noticed Laird turned Pro with adidas.
Tortu says he took too much forced time off because of a positive covid test and a quarantine and it interrupted his Olympic Cycle, plus minor injuries after.
And what's happened to Samuel Parola??Riku Illukka and Samuli Samuelsson of Finland both ran their PB’s in Kuortane, 10.27 each (+1.9), Mathias Hove Johansen of Norway also PBed to 10.39, expect Samuelsson to improve Finnish NR below 10.20 this season.
sorry lads but I still say Dina Asher Smith is eating tainted yams....10.71 to win the 100m easily, breaks the national record as well. She is so bulky looking. Of the mens and womens 100m finals only 1 white person...Andrew Robertson(4th) who is spent I think.
If prandini goes full throttle to the wire with good conditions she should win or at worst come second, she is so slight of frame yet quite toned no tainted yams there. If conditions are good she should go sub 21.90. Here's sending good luck vibes her way.
.sorry lads but I still say Dina Asher Smith is eating tainted yams....10.71 to win the 100m easily, breaks the national record as well. She is so bulky looking. Of the mens and womens 100m finals only 1 white person...Andrew Robertson(4th) who is spent I think
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No, you're premature mate. The clock was wrong (wellll wrong!) and her time was corrected to 10.97 which we know she is capable of doing. All those other "would have been" sub 11s for the place-getters were 11.20s.
And Andy Robertson was honest again and gave his all , 10.33 against a slight wind- could be a relay team member
Jenna Prandini is going to Tokyo ️
Boling finished 9/16, missed last qualifying spot by .04. If he wasn’t struggling so bad he would have done much better. Future is bright for him!
It's a shame Boling didn't at least make the final. To think he was that close makes me sick to my stomach. Can you imagine how he feels? Just to have made the finals would have been an honor and a step forward. It
will motivate him in the off season. He will think about it until it drives him crazy. The whole NCAA Champs as well as the US Olympic Trials are a learning experience for him. It's called tough love and he will be a better
sprinter as the result of it. Boling is not weak minded like Lemaitre was. He has not fear of competing against the best in the world in order to get better. Matt will shut up many critics next season. For now he needs rest.
On June 29th we have a meet in Germany. I'm interested to see what Henrik Larsson will be looking to improve on his seasons best time in the 100. Denis Almaz will is entered as well so hoping for some good conditions and
fast times. It's been a dismal year for most of our guys so let's hope we can have a few uplifting results before the Olympics.
I did see a few suprisng results recently all wind legal for our guys:
Silvan Wicki 10.22 +0.8
Kristoffer Hari 10.22 +0.9
Simon Hansen 10.24 +0.9
Fredercik Schou Nielsen 10.24 +0.9
Devon Allen ran another 13.10 in the finals to finish 2nd and is on his second US Olympic Team. Trey Cunningham ran another time of 13.21 to equal his p.b. but just missed making the team to finish 4th.
Cunningham really looked great and he has a bright future. Keep your head up young man! Devon Allen with a lifetime p.b. of 13.03 is the savy veteran now and man can he run. I would love to see him
break the 13 second barrier in Tokyo. The list of 110 Hurdlers in the world to go sub 13 is so small it's much more of an elite club then the sub 10 and sub 20 group.
Despite finishing 2nd at the Danish National Championships it was a great race for 3 of our guys! 23 year old Kristoffer Hari finally broke his p.b. with a 10.22 and two other guys broke there p.b.'s too.
100m men final Wind +0.9
1. Kojo Musah 10.14 NR+PB
2. Kristoffer Hari 10.22 PB
3. Simon Hansen 10.24 PB
4. Frederick Schou-Nielsen 10.24 PB /QUOTE]
He made the much taller winner really go out after him hard - probably enabling the new national record. In fact , the first four all went under Hari's Danish record - great stuff!
With those first 4, virtually zero wind at sea level, the Danes could well have a low 38 relay team if they perfect the baton changes - far under their dismal 39.06 to date
Devon Allen is like a 1/4 ish black or more. He looks white, but someone figured this out with proof back in his Oregon football days.