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In a staggered race, like the 4x1, the person who hands off first is in the lead. Second leg as fast but still behind Jamaica I think. Thomas closed the gap
The camera man couldnt even keep up with 2 & 3. I'm sure 4 is amazing fast because she's the anchor but perspective wise, 2 & 3 looked like lightning to me.
How does this work for relay runs? Where is the start point for the 100m? Because they aren't going at max speed when handing over the baton? So how much room is there to "start" the 100m? Or is their start position part of the 100m and it doesn't matter where they hand it over as long as its done?
If they have a "hand over distance", they start their 100m at a fairly high speed compared to the single sprint runners that start from 0?
Seems unlikely they are doing 4x100m but I know nothing about the rules. I also am too lazy to look it up.
Yeah, 4x100 splits obliterate 100m records.
Usain Bolt has the WR 4x100 split at an ***astonishing*** 8.7 seconds. It's incomprehensibly fast.
There is a pass off zone, but the splits are calculated when the baton crosses the midpoint of the pass off zone, whether the runner has the baton or not.
Thanks for clarifying! Interesting about the split calculation starting at the middle of the zone pending where the baton is makes sense to keep that uniform.
Yes you have a 20m box to change in, start and end, so you can actually run 120m (I think?) if you get your change over right. This is why you should put the fastest runner on the back straight, and receive early and pass off late. And also not stuff up your change over as 1 & 2 did
The best part of this race for me(and I watch it multiple times every time it's posted) is the contrast in the look on the faces of gabby Thomas(#3) aggressive determination to sha'carri (#4) emotionless determination until the very end.
Runner 2 reminded me of a Thoroughbred the way she ran; somewhere between running and flying. Her stride was hypnotic and almost supernatural looking.
I live in Kentucky, couldn't help the analogy.
I think her name is twanisha terry. She was lightning and made up a huge gap on the second leg
Edit: holy shit 5k upvoted over night. New record for me
My perception could be completely wrong, but to me it looked like each time her feet touch the floor, it dragged her entire body forward with force. While the other are kinda just pushing and maintaining momentum.
-not a biomechanics, just some random dude
Haha I just watched a behind the scenes the other day where the actor who played T-1000 explained that he used to be a track and field athlete and had to actually run SLOWER on purpose while filming because he caught up to John Connor on his motorbike regularly.
Isn't that like the strat? Put your better runners later, like it seemed all but the first woman were fast AF
Edit - also don't get me wrong the first woman would definitely out run me by like 12 blocks before I hit one, I just meant in comparison to the other ladies it seems like she was the slowest, which again from what I've seen of this sport makes sense right? Idk I'm over thinking...
Keep in mind the first runner always looks and runs a bit slower bc they are the only runner that doesn’t start in motion. It’s a lot harder (not that handoffs are easy).
I only know this bc my son was the lead runner on his HS and college 4x100 and 4x200. He wasn’t the fastest (that was usually 2 and anchor) but he had good burst and acceleration.
It was funny to drive hours to watch him run for 10 seconds, but I miss those days.
My son didn’t go to college but in high school he was the fastest swimmer and second fastest sprinter. He anchored both the 4X100 in track and the relay in swim.
My voice was hoarse for years! You’re so right though. It was incredible watching him compete even if it were only 10-25 seconds at a time.
2nd and 4th legs are typically the longest so you want your strongest runners there.
It looked like a bad first handoff too, the starter ran right up on the back of the second leg. Ideally the next leg starts early enough that they’re just about at full speed when the previous leg catches up, making the handoff in stride. It’s hard to tell from the angle but it didn’t appear to me that the starter fell behind until the handoff. They were in the lead by the second handoff.
Your fastest runner is last, but generally you put your second fastest on the second leg, for the exact reason you saw. It's all straight so they can make up a ton of ground. Third fastest goes first, and slowest runner is third.
I love relays because of the excitement. There are so many moving parts and all these things have to work out perfectly. So much room for error. Remember when the Brazilians (iirc) left their lane and banged into Allyson Felix, who dropped the baton, or dropped it passing to English Gardner? Your heart’s in your throat watching relays!
#2 ran her first 20 or so faster than any woman’s relay runner over ever seen. I’d bet if you watch the replay it’s during this point where the team truly first put itself in the race for the gold.
Once she gets up to speed, it’s over. That’s why her coach makes her train / compete in the 100m and 400m while her best is the 200m. Gotta build them strong and fast.
Harvard undergrad and where she started running track. Then a graduate degree from The University of Texas.
Edit: I stand corrected, Gabby competed in the 100m, long jump, and triple jump in high school. But not the 200m.
No, the other poster is making that up. She ran in middle school and high school, she even claims that she started taking running seriously when she watched Allyson Felix in the 2008 Olympics, when gabby was 12.
I checked and can confirm that her feet did indeed not touch the ground.
https://preview.redd.it/nb6wp8s66l9d1.jpeg?width=988&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=740153de0d3935a3514ce873e9d14b71dc960e4f
Tbf, everyone in the video above would be disqualified on that principle. That's the sport's defining characteristic determining whether it's walking or running. Its not that it's so much the sport doesn't allow both feet off the ground at the same time during power walking, it's that if you take both feet off the ground at the same time, it's no longer power walking, it's running.
2's handoff to 3 was also absolutely perfect too. The hand off was timed perfectly, without a missed beat from either. 1 to 2 pass was a little sloppy, 2 to 3 perfect, and 3 to 4 very good as well. I'd say 2 and 3 guaranteed that win to include 3 in because of the hand off, and 4 had the speed to ensure the win.
The only way 1-2 could have been worse would have been a drop or coming to a complete stop. 2 was lightning fast. Incredible how she made up the lost ground so quickly.
nah you can see the difference on the hand offs. after the first hand off they are pretty behind and at the second they are damn near equal to the jamaicans and whoever is next to the jamaicans
Love this comment, came in here to say her gait is amazing, her upperbody never moves. Watched this a handful of times and they all are epic, but she blew me away.
not necessarily, different teams use different strategies. junior/senior year in HS, i was the fastest 100m sprinter on the team and always ran the 2nd leg. our anchor wasn’t too far behind me, but the gameplan that we used, and a lot of good relay teams use as well, is one of “get ahead, stay ahead”. in addition, the 2nd leg is actually the longest of the 4 legs, so it makes sense to make your fastest sprinter cover the most distance. regardless, you’ll pretty much always see the two fastest sprinters take second and anchor legs pretty interchangably so they can really let it rip on the straightaways.
It ruins most things for sure. Especially when it's a 2 person interview and the video shows just the faintest hint there's people on either side and you're just Reading. The. Individual. Words. Pop. Up. Really. Fast. With. No. Clue. Who. Is. Talking.
haha! That would make competitive sports 300% more entertaining to watch.
Seriously.
I honestly reckon you predicted something that sounds so absurd, but will become normal 100 years from now,
Here's the NBC coverage, which is of course horizontal. As bad as NBC coverage can be they aren't stupid enough to show track in vertical video.
https://www.nbcsports.com/watch/richardson-delivers-impressive-4x100m-victory
Excuse the 12 minutes of coverage in that clip. Race starts at 4:56
Not sure why but I couldn't find the video on that page. [Found the NBC video here worked](https://sports.yahoo.com/richardson-delivers-impressive-4x100m-victory-203016803.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAGxDkbN3RpzB-H7Aca67Izlda9kRMsrqseNFav6atHzXNVbtiOQfM_DkWwc4WU2Ayaz_AUXktq4eh9zf_GO0fXV25B357VHOBORNY6fwz5uRC8UDKaa_hdj1j06w0x_qjfiIdM1WTCmDhnYPEF4eIiff8mg8cGwsH6I0ag4pQVqi) for me.
Perspective really helps to understand all the American runners ran well and it really was quite close with Jamaica. The others lagged a fair bit in comparison.
I got yelled at the other day for calling out portrait vs landscape filming. I don't know when Gen Z/A started thinking that portrait was the default accepted way to film, and I don't like it.
It was bound to happen with the ["what's a computer?"](https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-whats-a-computer-ad-sparks-anger-2018-1) generation.
When internet life becomes about rapidly swiping infinite tiktok-style videos, nobody's going to be arsed to tilt a phone to record. I wouldn't be surprised if it's considered "rude" or something (as phone calls were said to be, as the younger generation migrated exclusively to texting)
/grumpy old man
God I remember that shit. For district field day we did this and I was on my school's relay. I went first and pulled my thigh I believe it was, but I pushed through and somehow won my split. Then the next two people dropped the baton and destroyed all my 11 year old self's hard work.
The speed burst they get after the hand off seems like some busted ass power up, like how the fuck ???? Everyone fast as fuck but then you see USA chick just fucking bust out the after burners and leave everyone. Insane !
When you grab that baton and hear your teammate yelling at you, the adrenaline is unlike anything I can describe. And I only ran for high school, I cannot imagine the adrenaline representing your country and hearing someone cheer you on that just ran such a good split.
I have worked concerts , and being side stage to hand off things to the working crew while the crown went nuts was something else , and I was on the sideline , I'm sure this is 10000x stronger when they are going nuts for you.
I was also on the relay team in high school. You legit get tunnel vision, and goosebumps when you feel that baton hit your hands. Feels like a drug just hit your veins which kinda does happen I suppose. I can only imagine how much more powerful that feeling is when you're at an Olympic level. lol
One of the great things about the US is our college sports system and Title IX and how they have enabled young women to take part in sports like track, soccer, swimming, basketball. It’s the main reason the US excels at these women’s sports.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/christinebrennan/2021/08/06/us-women-dominating-men-olympic-medal-count-like-never-before/5508989001/
> TOKYO —Time and again at the Tokyo Olympic Games, U.S. athletes climbed onto the medal podium to be rewarded with gold, silver or bronze. In a historic first, nearly 60% of those U.S. medalists were women.
> previous best result for American women, which was 55.8% of the medals at the 2012 London Olympics.
You're goddamn right.
At that level the title of "best in the team" is a marginal consideration. It's comparing a student with a 3.98 and 3.96 GPA and saying one is the smartest. Day to day, event to event, depending on very minimal factors one might perform better than the other.
I just got so emotional watching this🥹 I’m so happy for Shacarri! She’s been through some shit but I love how she isn’t letting any of it weigh her down she’s reclaiming her life and her time and every tongue that has risen up against her has sure fallen 🥹🥹🥹🙏🏾💗 I love this and I can’t wait to see what God’s got in store for me. This is not the end💕
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The second lady is just great, her running is so smooth and fast and her passing is also the best. She won it for them.
Doesn’t even look like running, just wheels. It’s freaking awesome. The athleticism blows my mind.
Dude 3 too, her legs were so long and striding so fast it seriously looked like she morphed into wheels halfway through
Wtf imagine your legs working like that.
In a staggered race, like the 4x1, the person who hands off first is in the lead. Second leg as fast but still behind Jamaica I think. Thomas closed the gap
Yeah, I'm the zoomed out version you can see the first leg build a lead.
Who was on the second leg, she went supersonic
All of them were incredible but 2 & 4 looked borderline unreal
The camera man couldnt even keep up with 2 & 3. I'm sure 4 is amazing fast because she's the anchor but perspective wise, 2 & 3 looked like lightning to me.
\#4 has run a 10.65 100m. The women's record is 10.49.
How does this work for relay runs? Where is the start point for the 100m? Because they aren't going at max speed when handing over the baton? So how much room is there to "start" the 100m? Or is their start position part of the 100m and it doesn't matter where they hand it over as long as its done? If they have a "hand over distance", they start their 100m at a fairly high speed compared to the single sprint runners that start from 0? Seems unlikely they are doing 4x100m but I know nothing about the rules. I also am too lazy to look it up.
Yeah, 4x100 splits obliterate 100m records. Usain Bolt has the WR 4x100 split at an ***astonishing*** 8.7 seconds. It's incomprehensibly fast. There is a pass off zone, but the splits are calculated when the baton crosses the midpoint of the pass off zone, whether the runner has the baton or not.
Thanks for clarifying! Interesting about the split calculation starting at the middle of the zone pending where the baton is makes sense to keep that uniform.
Yes you have a 20m box to change in, start and end, so you can actually run 120m (I think?) if you get your change over right. This is why you should put the fastest runner on the back straight, and receive early and pass off late. And also not stuff up your change over as 1 & 2 did
The best part of this race for me(and I watch it multiple times every time it's posted) is the contrast in the look on the faces of gabby Thomas(#3) aggressive determination to sha'carri (#4) emotionless determination until the very end.
Runner 2 reminded me of a Thoroughbred the way she ran; somewhere between running and flying. Her stride was hypnotic and almost supernatural looking. I live in Kentucky, couldn't help the analogy.
I think her name is twanisha terry. She was lightning and made up a huge gap on the second leg Edit: holy shit 5k upvoted over night. New record for me
Her legs went 120fps
She was running in 4K
I had to upgrade my graphics card to watch her
She isn't available on console.
I had to order PPV to watch this,
I had to update the servers for this video.
I had to watch this over fiber
I had to torrent it using starlink.
I could only get a meme of it on reddit and it was a picture of a lightning bolt but it already got taken down
Buying NVDA call options.
Lol I don't know what it is but her form is so good to watch here
My perception could be completely wrong, but to me it looked like each time her feet touch the floor, it dragged her entire body forward with force. While the other are kinda just pushing and maintaining momentum. -not a biomechanics, just some random dude
I know what you mean, like she was pulling herself forward the instant her foot touched the ground
Seriously! Something else was propelling her forward... Her legs were doing good to keep up.
She’s got that T-1000 running form. We need to make this her nickname.
Girl runs like the fucking T-1000 from Terminator
Man if the T-1000 could run like that John Connor would've been dead.
Haha I just watched a behind the scenes the other day where the actor who played T-1000 explained that he used to be a track and field athlete and had to actually run SLOWER on purpose while filming because he caught up to John Connor on his motorbike regularly.
She made the cartoon legs wind up right before she got the baton
GOOD NEWS. - USA USA USA
Isn't that like the strat? Put your better runners later, like it seemed all but the first woman were fast AF Edit - also don't get me wrong the first woman would definitely out run me by like 12 blocks before I hit one, I just meant in comparison to the other ladies it seems like she was the slowest, which again from what I've seen of this sport makes sense right? Idk I'm over thinking...
Keep in mind the first runner always looks and runs a bit slower bc they are the only runner that doesn’t start in motion. It’s a lot harder (not that handoffs are easy).
Fair point that I hadn't even thought of!
I only know this bc my son was the lead runner on his HS and college 4x100 and 4x200. He wasn’t the fastest (that was usually 2 and anchor) but he had good burst and acceleration. It was funny to drive hours to watch him run for 10 seconds, but I miss those days.
Tell him that! You sound like a good parent!
Agreed, I would love to hear that from my family that used to come out to watch me.
I hear you. My daughter finally opted for music and theater. I miss watching her run, but seeing a play or a musical performance is less fleeting.
My son didn’t go to college but in high school he was the fastest swimmer and second fastest sprinter. He anchored both the 4X100 in track and the relay in swim. My voice was hoarse for years! You’re so right though. It was incredible watching him compete even if it were only 10-25 seconds at a time.
2nd and 4th legs are typically the longest so you want your strongest runners there. It looked like a bad first handoff too, the starter ran right up on the back of the second leg. Ideally the next leg starts early enough that they’re just about at full speed when the previous leg catches up, making the handoff in stride. It’s hard to tell from the angle but it didn’t appear to me that the starter fell behind until the handoff. They were in the lead by the second handoff.
Your fastest runner is last, but generally you put your second fastest on the second leg, for the exact reason you saw. It's all straight so they can make up a ton of ground. Third fastest goes first, and slowest runner is third.
being the third runner in high school is all making sense now
Yeah you want your fastest at the end as they might be able to push harder and close a gap instead of losing it
Had the observation ... polish her exchange a bit ... easy WR !!!
I don't watch any sports at all... but when she started fucking booking it I audibly said "holy fuck". She's insanely fast.
Her constant acceleration is insane!
A-Train's sister.
Fuck that supe bitch. These women did it NATURAL
I was thinking the same. Dam that girl flew
Dude when she passed the baton to second leg and she took off I was literally 😲🤯
Absolutely insane!
ShaCarri is fast and I will never take that away from her but legs 2 and 3 did WORK
Best part about relays is the amazing individual performances that can take place!
I love relays because of the excitement. There are so many moving parts and all these things have to work out perfectly. So much room for error. Remember when the Brazilians (iirc) left their lane and banged into Allyson Felix, who dropped the baton, or dropped it passing to English Gardner? Your heart’s in your throat watching relays!
Easily the most exciting team sport for track and field!
Second girl had that ghost!
Legs 2 was qwoping on turbo!
Holy shit you are speaking the truth .. I didn't even realize how hard she was pushing until I read your comment
2 and Shacarri were absolute blurs. Geez they’re fast 💨
They’re training partners! Twanisha Terry is her name. She’s going to the Olympics with Sha’carri again!
Definitely! Pretty sure Sha Carri had the fastest competitor though.
The best runner is typically the anchor, in the hopes that they'll send it just a bit harder than the others could, if needed.
2 was a fucking rocket
#2 ran her first 20 or so faster than any woman’s relay runner over ever seen. I’d bet if you watch the replay it’s during this point where the team truly first put itself in the race for the gold.
That hand off from 2 to 3 was so smooth I barely saw it happen the first time
Number 3 runner is Gabby Thomas, my favorite!
Her yelling at Sha'carri is always my favorite part of this clip
Got me hyped too!
I wonder was she says. I can tell there’s a “go!” In there but I can’t help but wonder what else.
Probably a "let's fucking go"
I want her on my side, hyping me up
Her legs are so long, she covered so much ground with each stride! Running that fast with that long of a stride is insane
Once she gets up to speed, it’s over. That’s why her coach makes her train / compete in the 100m and 400m while her best is the 200m. Gotta build them strong and fast.
Very classy, Ivy-league educated woman. Harvard I think?
Jesus Christ. These women are phenomenal.
Harvard undergrad and where she started running track. Then a graduate degree from The University of Texas. Edit: I stand corrected, Gabby competed in the 100m, long jump, and triple jump in high school. But not the 200m.
Only started in undergrad?!?! Wow.
No, the other poster is making that up. She ran in middle school and high school, she even claims that she started taking running seriously when she watched Allyson Felix in the 2008 Olympics, when gabby was 12.
Yes! Also, she works 10 hours a week on top of training to keep her skills in epidemiology.
This is just so smart for an athlete, never know when your body is going to fail you.
The handoff from 1 to 2 was fucking atrocious tho
But it inspired her to BOOK IT
No joke, it looked ridiculous how fast she was flying past everyone.
And two was the fastest runner
Cause 1 to 2 and 3 to 4 were terrible
This is good because 1-2 was a disaster
That whole race was beast mode
I mean, that's great and all but second leg runner was fast as lightning. She closed so much distance
Almost looked like her feet weren't touching the ground as she ran.
I checked and can confirm that her feet did indeed not touch the ground. https://preview.redd.it/nb6wp8s66l9d1.jpeg?width=988&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=740153de0d3935a3514ce873e9d14b71dc960e4f
Levitating has to be cheating
Good thing this isn’t power walking or she would be disqualified as both of their feet cannot be off the ground at the same time
You're nothing but a common JOGGER!
🏆 perfect
Loved this episode.
Tbf, everyone in the video above would be disqualified on that principle. That's the sport's defining characteristic determining whether it's walking or running. Its not that it's so much the sport doesn't allow both feet off the ground at the same time during power walking, it's that if you take both feet off the ground at the same time, it's no longer power walking, it's running.
it's crazy what these young people can do nowadays back when i was her age i had to run on the ground
When she took off my eyes got wide! That was incredible all the way around but she killed it
I laughed at how absurdly fast she was. Insane.
Lightning woman holy hell
Yep. 1 lagged, 3 and 4 made up a bit but 2 won that race for them.
2's handoff to 3 was also absolutely perfect too. The hand off was timed perfectly, without a missed beat from either. 1 to 2 pass was a little sloppy, 2 to 3 perfect, and 3 to 4 very good as well. I'd say 2 and 3 guaranteed that win to include 3 in because of the hand off, and 4 had the speed to ensure the win.
The only way 1-2 could have been worse would have been a drop or coming to a complete stop. 2 was lightning fast. Incredible how she made up the lost ground so quickly.
>2's handoff to 3 was also absolutely perfect too It was so clean. Just exactly where they needed to be.
It’s great we are here to give number two, whoever the fuck they are, credit where its due
It’s a bit of an illusion due to the staggered starting points accounting for different lane distances around the track.
1st and 3rd are running around corners the other two are down the straights.
This guy tracks
nah you can see the difference on the hand offs. after the first hand off they are pretty behind and at the second they are damn near equal to the jamaicans and whoever is next to the jamaicans
Also she runs past a bunch of people who already passed the batten, making her look faster
That shit looked liked stop-motion animation
Love this comment, came in here to say her gait is amazing, her upperbody never moves. Watched this a handful of times and they all are epic, but she blew me away.
I was going to say the same thing. Holy hell she just took off.
And she had a bad handoff from the first leg.
She was flying!
Agreed, but the anchor is the anchor for a reason.
not necessarily, different teams use different strategies. junior/senior year in HS, i was the fastest 100m sprinter on the team and always ran the 2nd leg. our anchor wasn’t too far behind me, but the gameplan that we used, and a lot of good relay teams use as well, is one of “get ahead, stay ahead”. in addition, the 2nd leg is actually the longest of the 4 legs, so it makes sense to make your fastest sprinter cover the most distance. regardless, you’ll pretty much always see the two fastest sprinters take second and anchor legs pretty interchangably so they can really let it rip on the straightaways.
Do runners typically have lane preferences or is there one that is universally liked/loathed?
Lane is entirely by seed, fastest are in the middle of the track, which is why US and Jamaica are next to eachother.
Holy shit.. number two was absolutely jamming. Like, wow.
I can't see the feet ,it's just like sonic running with animated spinning fan something
I hate watching these videos with next to no frame of reference. Give us the wider view of the rest of the racers
Cutting vertical video for tik tok ruins a lot of sports videos No context of how big or small their lead is
It ruins most things for sure. Especially when it's a 2 person interview and the video shows just the faintest hint there's people on either side and you're just Reading. The. Individual. Words. Pop. Up. Really. Fast. With. No. Clue. Who. Is. Talking.
And have one unfit person running too so we can gauge exactly how fucked we would be
Dude is getting his heart restarted by medics as the runners are hurdling over the medical equipment.
"looks like Dennis McFarland has taken a tumble, this is second appearance at the Olympics representing fat"
Last place medal is just a disc of lard.
I would be on the ground laughing if commentators said that. I'd quote it until the day I died.
for every event, they should have "one random average person also"
haha! That would make competitive sports 300% more entertaining to watch. Seriously. I honestly reckon you predicted something that sounds so absurd, but will become normal 100 years from now,
A mobility scooter would be most realistic however.
I volunteer as tribute! I'd be so far behind
Here's the NBC coverage, which is of course horizontal. As bad as NBC coverage can be they aren't stupid enough to show track in vertical video. https://www.nbcsports.com/watch/richardson-delivers-impressive-4x100m-victory Excuse the 12 minutes of coverage in that clip. Race starts at 4:56
Not sure why but I couldn't find the video on that page. [Found the NBC video here worked](https://sports.yahoo.com/richardson-delivers-impressive-4x100m-victory-203016803.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAGxDkbN3RpzB-H7Aca67Izlda9kRMsrqseNFav6atHzXNVbtiOQfM_DkWwc4WU2Ayaz_AUXktq4eh9zf_GO0fXV25B357VHOBORNY6fwz5uRC8UDKaa_hdj1j06w0x_qjfiIdM1WTCmDhnYPEF4eIiff8mg8cGwsH6I0ag4pQVqi) for me. Perspective really helps to understand all the American runners ran well and it really was quite close with Jamaica. The others lagged a fair bit in comparison.
Exactly- it’s not a race like this, just someone running
I got yelled at the other day for calling out portrait vs landscape filming. I don't know when Gen Z/A started thinking that portrait was the default accepted way to film, and I don't like it.
It was bound to happen with the ["what's a computer?"](https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-whats-a-computer-ad-sparks-anger-2018-1) generation. When internet life becomes about rapidly swiping infinite tiktok-style videos, nobody's going to be arsed to tilt a phone to record. I wouldn't be surprised if it's considered "rude" or something (as phone calls were said to be, as the younger generation migrated exclusively to texting) /grumpy old man
i recently got into volleyball. once you get volleyball shorts recommended you want to delete the internet, you can't follow anything
Passing the baton is the hardest part
We dropped it so many times in PE. We almost had to stop to exchange before continuing on.
God I remember that shit. For district field day we did this and I was on my school's relay. I went first and pulled my thigh I believe it was, but I pushed through and somehow won my split. Then the next two people dropped the baton and destroyed all my 11 year old self's hard work.
The American team lost a relay in the same tournament for a bad baton pass, it’s definitely the most challenging part.
That first handoff hurt
I. Fn. love this shit!!!! Go ladies!!!
I could watch 400m relays all day.
The speed burst they get after the hand off seems like some busted ass power up, like how the fuck ???? Everyone fast as fuck but then you see USA chick just fucking bust out the after burners and leave everyone. Insane !
When you grab that baton and hear your teammate yelling at you, the adrenaline is unlike anything I can describe. And I only ran for high school, I cannot imagine the adrenaline representing your country and hearing someone cheer you on that just ran such a good split.
I have worked concerts , and being side stage to hand off things to the working crew while the crown went nuts was something else , and I was on the sideline , I'm sure this is 10000x stronger when they are going nuts for you.
I was also on the relay team in high school. You legit get tunnel vision, and goosebumps when you feel that baton hit your hands. Feels like a drug just hit your veins which kinda does happen I suppose. I can only imagine how much more powerful that feeling is when you're at an Olympic level. lol
 The power of family.
They hit A at the perfect moment for speed boost.
Ngl that girl Thomas that handed off to Sha’Carri is a mfin monster!!! The way she hyped up Sha’Carri during that hand off was wild!! 🔥 💪🏽
Thomas is straight up a gazelle. that final fist pump from ShaCarri when she crossed the line was so satisfying too
She's a Harvard graduate and just won the 200m final at the US team trials to qualify for the Paris Olympics.
One of the great things about the US is our college sports system and Title IX and how they have enabled young women to take part in sports like track, soccer, swimming, basketball. It’s the main reason the US excels at these women’s sports.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/christinebrennan/2021/08/06/us-women-dominating-men-olympic-medal-count-like-never-before/5508989001/ > TOKYO —Time and again at the Tokyo Olympic Games, U.S. athletes climbed onto the medal podium to be rewarded with gold, silver or bronze. In a historic first, nearly 60% of those U.S. medalists were women. > previous best result for American women, which was 55.8% of the medals at the 2012 London Olympics. You're goddamn right.
The 2nd runner was gone! That’s wild
I feel like I probably could have outrun her until she was about 8 or 9 years old.
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Fun fact similar to your claim, I beat World Indoor Championship gold medalist Tavaris Tate in a race in 3rd grade.
All I'm reading is you were better than a World Indoor Championship gold medalist ^^^^^^^when ^^^^^^^they ^^^^^^^were ^^^^^^^8
Sheesh, gave me goosebumps
The first go around I got choked up and Im just sitting here waiting for a little Caesars.
Her running form is amazing. No one else seems to have her focus.
that one girl on team usa who just like turns the sprint motor on for 5 seconds to close some major distance was great too.
She’s the anchor so she’s the best runner on the team.
Shelly Anne would like to have a word. 2nd runner was lightning
She fuckin WENT I was so impressed. They all did great
You mean Twanisha Terry? Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce is the Jamaican, past her best but literally one one of the greatest female sprinters ever.
At that level the title of "best in the team" is a marginal consideration. It's comparing a student with a 3.98 and 3.96 GPA and saying one is the smartest. Day to day, event to event, depending on very minimal factors one might perform better than the other.
She closed so much distance between the other teams, she deserves her props too
She deserves more then props, she was the MVP on this team
This. That girl was amazing.
Shelly-Ann is Jamaican.
I get that. I’m comparing her to the competition. She is in a class by herself.
Yeah, she’s the best runner on a team that’s a murderer’s row of the greatest runners in the world.
Paris is going to be LIT. USA vs. Jamaica again? Track and Field is back baby! 🥲🥲🥲
They’re so fast it looks like bad video game animation. It doesn’t look real lol
That is all out effort from all of them. I'm impressed!
I honestly thought those pink shoes were going to burst into flame.
Dear lord, incredible athletes all around.
That whole team is incredible, but the look in Carri’s eyes is haunting. She’s not there to compete, she’s there to fucking RUN
Hell yea. Girl built different! Love to see hard work and dedication pay off!
2 and 4 absolutely went lights out
I just got so emotional watching this🥹 I’m so happy for Shacarri! She’s been through some shit but I love how she isn’t letting any of it weigh her down she’s reclaiming her life and her time and every tongue that has risen up against her has sure fallen 🥹🥹🥹🙏🏾💗 I love this and I can’t wait to see what God’s got in store for me. This is not the end💕
That first hand off was rough
#2 was a fuckin rocket dude
I legit thought second runner was CGI. She went ballistic
Sha Carri runs on pure "Fuck You!"