Drawing a long bow, Dazed if you interpret my comment to mean that.
I didn’t say that at all.
Put it this way - With 4 clear stand outs in the men’s 4 x100m - Rouge-Serret, Johnson, Davies & Groth, the fifth option (Ntiamoah) is probably going along for the experience and possibly a heat run only; he is not in the likely four for the final.
Likewise with Moore in the 4 x 400m - Offereins, Steffenson, Milburn & Wroe will be the final team with Moore possibly running the heat only.
They are still important in the scheme of things in case something goes amiss with the top 4 and I’m not suggesting at all they should not be selected; only that I think relatively speaking Whaler is a better athlete and very unlucky to miss out.
Laura Whaler is clearly in the top 3 sprinters in the country…and with Melissa Breen, Sally McLellan & Jody Henry would form a very good team, just as capable of winning a medal as the men’s 4 x 100m.
The selectors went with only 3 athletes as part of the initial squad for the women’s 4 x 400m; so why not do the same with the women’s 4 x 100m?
ie: Why couldn’t they announce an initial 3 of Breen, Whaler & Henry?
Only really needs McLellan for the final and one of the hurdlers for the heat and they are a genuine medal prospect.
With her versatility, Jody Henry seems to be the key athlete in that like Tania Van-Heer (at KL in 1998) she could easily double up in both the 4x 100m and the 4 x 400m.
PS: Last year (an underdone) team of Breen, McLellan, Henry & Wrench-Doody ran 43.95 in Japan in May. Take out Wrench-Doody and replace her with Whaler and with the improvement in Henry & Breen, the team is quite capable of going sub 43.8 which would probably win a medal at the CG.