Everyone appears to have either stayed up too long (in Asia in May/June) and failed to reload, or if they went to Europe on the Australian tour they got very limited opportunhities to race and then mostly post World Cup when western Europe was caqught in the grip of cold and wet weather. Then most of these good 400m athletes went to Delhi for the Commonwealth Games which wrapped up on October 16 - very late in the 2010 season and sufficiently late to have already severely compromised the 2011 Aussie domestic season. We are seeing the results of that now with ordinary times on the domestic tour because most of the gold medal-winning men’s 4x400 squad took a break after Delhi and then began general prep while others who did not go to the Games were already in the early stages of summer competition Down Under.