Sally Pearson's World Championships Performance

Did you see the race? If you compare Danielle’s technique to Sally’s you’d see what I mean. If Danielle had better technique her time would be faster. That’s not to say she would run the 100 hurdles faster than Sally, but her time, 12.47, would be better. As Danielle’s technique stands now she"ll never break 12.40, much less 12.30. The difference is Sally has better flat speed and hurdling technique. Furthermore, flat sprint speed and hurdle speed are two different things. For an even better comparison, if you compare Dever’s flat speed and hurdles speed and technique to Donkova’s flat speed and hurdles speed and technique you’d see what I mean.

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