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Imo, eilidh doyle was responsible for the medal colour only being bronze and not gold or silver and I can't believe team GB don't have a better runner than her. From what I've seen of her running, she's pretty average by olympic standards. She was lagging behind by miles.
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Her leg wasn't good though, is there somewhere that posts the splits for the various parts? Is it Masey who ran in the semis and got dropped, wouldn't be too surprised if her time was noticeably better than Doyle's.
Sure, regardless of who ran they weren't getting a silver or gold, but ultimately their goal should be to run as fast as possible and it looked like they had a faster person available for that second leg.
Jamaica gained 2 seconds from the heat to the final, as did the States, GB lost just over a second.
Sure, regardless of who ran they weren't getting a silver or gold, but ultimately their goal should be to run as fast as possible and it looked like they had a faster person available for that second leg.
Jamaica gained 2 seconds from the heat to the final, as did the States, GB lost just over a second.
Would have been amongst the medals.
Probably would have been in the scrap for Silver & Bronze, don't think anyone was catching the USA.
complete rubish - The USA and Jamaica were way ahead of the rest in individual times (even Cram said that)
the women did very well to win the bronze considering how close it was
No it's not rubbish. Watch the video again if it's still showing.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/olympics/36817939
Poland and Canada were right up alongside USA and Jamaica by the end of the first leg. If Doyle was as good as the pole and canadian, she'd have arrived sooner at the better runners in her team allowing them to get going earlier and we'd have been in with a very strong chance of an improved medal.
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Semenyas got a voice like Barry White!
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I don't understand, Michael Johnson is such a font of knowledge, an awesome pundit and a US Olympic legend, how comes he is on British TV and not been signed up to a big US sports network?
I guess he must really enjoy his work with the BBC and other stuff he does over here. Glad that he does, he's always interesting to listen to. Definitely an honorary Brit by now I think.
Gets along fine in a BBC room: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/37108106
He seems fine with whatever deal he's getting and I wouldn't push for him to get back to his side of the pond.
He seems fine with whatever deal he's getting and I wouldn't push for him to get back to his side of the pond.
Hes been with the Beeb for over 10 years, so I doubt its monetary but far more the coverage the BBC consistently have done compared to the US networks...
EDIT: Mo Farah collects his gold medal to an largely empty stadium - FO Rio...
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EDIT: Mo Farah collects his gold medal to an largely empty stadium - FO Rio...
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This is pretty clueless stuff.
Traditionally, teams would put their runners, in speed order, 2,3,4,1. It gets mixed up a lot more than it used to, and in this instance, GB put their weakest runner on leg 1, versus Canada's best and Poland's 2nd.
Besides which, GB were level with Canada and Poland at the first change (lanes 3, 7, 8)
USA and Jamaica are, what, a second ahead? Finishing 5 ahead at the end. Yeah, it's GB's L1 which was the problem.
And GB did only have 3 good 400m runners available, so the fourth slot had to be filled by someone. The fourth best specialist in the 400 is about a second down on our top three.
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