Olympic Games Paris 2024

[NDpendent]

By the end of the Olympics my wife said I had to stop calling Sydney McLaughlin & Gabby Thomas "my girls"

 

[FDNYIrish1]

There were three people left off the team -- Arike, Clark, Reese -- that would've had them winning by 10+ points. The players they brought that were mistakes were Gray, Taurasi, and Griner.

Taurasi is old and slow, so she doesn't bring anything on the offensive end that you don't already get from someone else AND she's a defensive liability. 0 minutes in the finals. Gray was coming off major injury and should not have been on the team. She couldn't play. Griner was similarly someone they chose to plant on the bench in the finals presumably because they thought she had limitations on offense.

If the five people you put on the floor was Clark (PG), Arike (SG), Stewart (SF), Reese (PF), Wilson (C) they would have throttled teams. But biggest issue was actually coaching. The first half vs France was some of the worst coached offensive basketball I've ever seen because they had no natural facilitator and no flow on offense. Often it was 4 people standing around watching one person go to the hoop off the dribble. If you don't have scripted or practiced motions... and you're asking people to play out of position... then often you're going to be hesitant or not on the same page with your teammates. That leads to hero ball and turnovers.

You just described Carmelo Anthony on the Knicks

 

[ab2cmiller]

 

[en dee seattle]

ND grad Yared Nuguse briefly held the world record for indoor mile. But a Norwegian broke it just a few days later.

https://www.wsj.com/sports/olympics/indoor-mile-world-record-yared-nuguse-jakob-ingebrigtsen-7a67dfce?mod=hp_listb_pos1

 

[RDU Irish]

ND grad Yared Nuguse briefly held the world record for indoor mile. But a Norwegian broke it just a few days later.

https://www.wsj.com/sports/olympics/indoor-mile-world-record-yared-nuguse-jakob-ingebrigtsen-7a67dfce?mod=hp_listb_pos1

3:46 - damn. That's an average of 56.5 second per 400M, 28.25 per 200M or 14.125 second 100M.

How far could everyone here keep pace, in their prime, with Yared on this record pace? I'd guess 50 meters if he got a bad start for me.

 

[SDIrishFan]

3:46 - damn. That's an average of 56.5 second per 400M, 28.25 per 200M or 14.125 second 100M.

How far could everyone here keep pace, in their prime, with Yared on this record pace? I'd guess 50 meters if he got a bad start for me.

I'm pretty sure I couldn't even run a 7 second 50m right now, ha. But, I've always been slower than a turtle stampeding through peanut butter.

 

[Irish du Nord]

3:46 - damn. That's an average of 56.5 second per 400M, 28.25 per 200M or 14.125 second 100M.

How far could everyone here keep pace, in their prime, with Yared on this record pace? I'd guess 50 meters if he got a bad start for me.

I’m gonna say like 500m, I was a 55 mid 400m guy and 2:03 800m. I was primarily a miler/2 miler though

Currently? Probably not a step past 250 and I am sore for 4 days after

 

[Fbolt]

I don't train the run away, I walk into the fray. I'd say my posts probably demonstrate that.

 

[ulukinatme]

I ran the same 40 time my Senior year that Joe Alt did at the Combine, 5.07 /humblebrag
Course, I was 80 pounds lighter as a lineman and wasn't an NFL prospect.

 

[RDU Irish]

I ran the same 40 time my Senior year that Joe Alt did at the Combine, 5.07 /humblebrag
Course, I was 80 pounds lighter as a lineman and wasn't an NFL prospect.

Yared's 40m would be about 5.6 seconds at pace.

Now I am too old and slow to even body him off the blocks to stay ahead for 10m.