analyse this

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@jnoynaert

This may have been touched already at some point during the previous 92 pages but…I notice that in quite a few of the snapshots the sprinters are running with their feet pointed outward, i.e. “duck footed.” I’ve been told before that this introduces a braking action to the footstrike and slows you down–is that true? Or does it only apply when the foot not only points out but also “rolls” down (the outer side of the ankle lengthening, moving the footstrike towards the outside edge of the foot and away from the ball of the foot)? Or are both of these conceptions false?

Just very curious, thanks:)

good question.

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Chambers (L) & Quow - 400

[PhilG]

I think Quow should view the GPP DVD, his arm is a tad further across than the mid line.

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@kitkat1

Chambers (L) & Quow - 400

richardo has some serously good form for the homestraight right there.

he’s kinda been stuck around 44.6-44.8 for his sb/pr for a while now but only has a 200pr of 21.1

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@James_Smith

Speaking for myself, my athletes can demand all they want yet its me who makes the decisions.

taking into account I am coaching collegiate athletes I should hope a coach of Olympians enjoys the same latitude, and certainly at the Olympic Games!

Charlie, Kit Kat, PJ, any input here?

I find it difficult to entertain the idea of the coach being there simply to offer suggestions without having strategic control over making critical, and more than once, history making decisions. It’s even more difficult to entertain the idea of the athletes assuming this responsibility.

i think the olympic coach is usually primarily a handler.

i.e. bill bowerman the head coach in 68 and 72 only directly controlled the oregon athletes, and at both the camps for munich and mexico city he told the athletes in the first meeting with them all gathered that, he as well as all of the other coaches, would do nothing more than hold the stop watch or measure their throw unless they were asked to(since the athletes already had their training mapped out with their personal coaches, the olympic coaches were just their for technical advice and as handlers).

also the olympic coach in athens was a D2 coach with no prior relationship with mo or any of those guys.

obviously it be better to hear it from CF ect.

[Davan]

@James_Smith

Speaking for myself, my athletes can demand all they want yet its me who makes the decisions.

taking into account I am coaching collegiate athletes I should hope a coach of Olympians enjoys the same latitude, and certainly at the Olympic Games!

Charlie, Kit Kat, PJ, any input here?

I find it difficult to entertain the idea of the coach being there simply to offer suggestions without having strategic control over making critical, and more than once, history making decisions. It’s even more difficult to entertain the idea of the athletes assuming this responsibility.

Right, tell that to the guy who is paying the bills. With a few exceptions, both from what I’ve read and from what I’ve heard from a number of athletes, it just doesn’t work like that. A relay coach who doesn’t even coach necessarily a single athlete on the team is going to have a hard time telling the athletes and the coaches what to do if it isn’t what they want, especially if it is like some years where the relay coach is a no-name or not well respected.

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@Davan

Right, tell that to the guy who is paying the bills. With a few exceptions, both from what I’ve read and from what I’ve heard from a number of athletes, it just doesn’t work like that. A relay coach who doesn’t even coach necessarily a single athlete on the team is going to have a hard time telling the athletes and the coaches what to do if it isn’t what they want, especially if it is like some years where the relay coach is a no-name or not well respected.

Any coach’s capacity to influence is based on professional and personal respect with which s/he is held by the athletes (& the aths community).

You can have all the splits and velocity charts and handover stats you like but if (when!) egos get in the way, it’s people you’re dealing with at the end of the day.

When Carl Lewis and his group wanted to call the shots in Seoul (I think) and the coach Russ Rodgers wanted to go in another direction with the 4x100 lineup, you ended up with dross, a DQ and in the end Rodgers was turned over and wasn’t heard of again at the international level for more than a decade.

If the coach has the respect of the relay squad, great things can be accomplished, so the USATF needs to be cognisant of all the personal politics involved before making the selection of the coach.

And that’s hard when the coaches are picked often years before the team is known, but you have an idea already of the pool of talent coming through, so it’s up to all concerned to start building two-way bridges over which they can carry that gold medal back home.

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But his agent continues to deny Asafa has undergone shoulder surgery…:rolleyes:

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Powell pips Bolt in Stockholm 2008

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Bolt’s comin’ round the bend, London 2008

… and now he’s leaving…

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[dynamittom]

@kitkat1

Powell pips Bolt in Stockholm 2008

What did he(Bolt) think there?

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GUESS WHOSE BACK

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Veronica Campbell in Londre

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Felix 4th in London08

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(from left) Muriel Hurtis, Jeter & Sanya Richards

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Chambers & Quow go sub 45