100m001
August 26, 2009, 11:38pm
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Are you serious? 43-44 to enter in final?
In Berlin the day of the 400m it started to rain like hell, the guys couldn’t warm-up. Wariner and Merritt started to do strides under a crazy rain, before the officials allowed people to enter in the warm-up track which is inside the Berlin stadium (required a 15min walk to get there), that is the usual warm-up track for ISTAF meeting. While warming-up, we were told there was a 40min delay in the competition. The temp was low and humidity very high, great contrast with the previous days. I estimate the guys lost about half a second due to the conditions.
Oh, please excuse my ignorance. I’m not a coach it’s just I remember around 1996-2000 guys were really moving in the 400m year around not just at the worlds. Consequently, the 100m-200m has gotten more competitive.
https://www.trackandfieldnews.com/results/wcresults_83_99_m.html