Cal88 said:
DiabloWags said:
Big C said:
DiabloWags said:
DiabloWags said:
Time for the Men.
We havent seen the podium in 20 years. Too many dropped batons!
Can we get the stick around for a change?
Nope.
The coaching staff should be shot.
They re-juggled the order of the runners from the semis.
So Coleman runs up the back of Bednarek because Bednarek left too early and had to stop.
Baton got passed out of the zone.
DQ.
Total Disaster.
IDIOTS!!!
Why do we screw up the handoffs in Olympics after Olympics?!?
I REPEAT:
THE DUMBASS COACHES CHANGED THE ORDER OF THE RUNNERS BETWEEN THE SEMIS AND FINALS.
KENNY BEDNAREK WAS MOVED TO RUN THE BACKSTRETCH (LEG #2) IN THE FINAL FROM THE TURN (LEG #3) IN THE SEMIS.
HE TOOK OFF TOO EARLY FOR COLEMAN.
THE COACHES ARE MORONS!
JUST ASK CARL LEWIS.
HE WAS FUMING.
https://nypost.com/2024/08/09/sports/carl-lewis-eviscerates-us-track-after-olympic-relay-debacle-blow-it-up/
So "THE COACHES WERE MORONS!" also in 2008, 2012, 2016 and 2020, when the US failed to even finish in the top 3 in the men's 4x100m relay all those years?
I never said or implied that.
You did.
I'm clearly talking about what happened at this
OLYMPICS GAMES IN PARIS.You don't seem to understand the nuances of the 4x100m relay.
I repeat . . . The coaching staff
changed the order of the runners between the semis and the finals and put a 200m runner (Bednarek) who is used to running the turn from a standing start and moved him to the second leg to run the backstretch. He took off early and Coleman (who ran a great leg) couldnt get the baton to him. The coaches should have never moved Bednarek from the 3rd leg.
A VERY DUMB MOVE!
Carl Lewis confirms what I just said.
"First of all, he's angry about a system that he says is not set up to help the United States move forward and do well," Johnson continued. "He's also angry that they didn't have the
right people in the right places. If Noah Lyles was out sick with Covid, they should've just replaced the anchor leg and nothing else.
But the fact they reordered the entire relay had him worried and at the end, had him upset."
Hope this helps your understanding of what happened better.
"Cults don't end well. They really don't."