alice roberts Loudoun Valley probably switched the order of their runners after they already gave their list to the Penn Relays officials. The announcers were probably reading off this list.
Kudos to that 1st leg kid who fell (no fault of his own) and maintained his composure to finish his leg well. Made a significant contribution to the win.
If you slow it down, you'll see that the runner behind steps on the other guy's foot before throwing his arm out in front, and he trips as a result of that.
Floyd Outdoors the first few lanes are probably for the sprinting and hurdle events. So they’re still running 400 it’s just the inner lanes are less than that so the block the lanes off
Alexander Hull alright first of all .001 seconds doesn't qualify as "destroyed" and second of all you're acting like Salisbury didn't have to race one of the fastest high school milers of all time. I'm pretty sure if you were racing him, you'd get beat by a lot more than .001. Actually Salisbury ran a 4:10 which, correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure you will never run that fast in your life, especially not in high school. So before you talk shit about how he got destroyed, why don't you take a step back and analyze the race and realize that yes, he got beat, but his competition was insane and he ran an extremely smart race.
The way hunter caught up meant he kind of destroyed him overall, not saying Salisbury Is bad, he is great too! Just his tactic was a bit cocky as he expected he'd kick better
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At 0:56 in it looks to me that the runner for G straight up pushes the runner for K down, causing the fall...did anything come of that? I don’t see G getting tripped or anything to cause him to fall into the other runner. Looks like foul play to me. Anyone know if the referees did anything about that? Or if G somehow was tripped? Would be really awful if not.
@@danieltrombly4746 Looks fun, but I've never heard of this type of relay in the UK. But why's it being run in Lane 4? Presumably they're all running the conventional 400 metres per lap, but on a conventional athletics track Lane 4 is 423 meters, so wtf is going on here? This question has been asked below, but no one's answered it yet.
hauntboy this race is run at franklin field in penn relays. i believe originally they did not have enough room to make a full 400 meter track. recently instead of completely rebuilding the stadium, they put the rail in between lanes 3 and 4. lane 4 is the full 400 meters where lane 1 is probably around 380
@@patrickorourke195, Thanks, I get the picture of things now. I did a wikipedia search and it said that the 400 metres was achieved via running in Lane 5, which kind of confuses things again.... "The track in Franklin Field has a rarely used configuration where the 400 metre circumference is achieved in lane 5, rather than in lane one. Thus there are two curbs on the track, inside of lane one and also inside of lane 5. In order to accommodate the full fields of the Penn Relays and other meets, special adaptations are made with a movable curb on the backstretch to stagger the runners to arrive at a common break point in lane 5, rather than the conventional lane one. Single lap races in the inner lanes, run portions of an extra straightaway. Multiple lap races spend the majority of the race in lane 5 to run the proper distances."
"Jack Salsbury (sp) with a brilliant execution"....wtf are you talking about? Looking back multiple times and "letting Hunter back into the race" is not brilliant. Salsbury was not as mentally tough and cocky to let someone track you down like that and think you will out kick them in an attempt for a dramatic show boating. Salsbury should have started gutting out a kick of his own way before the gap closed.
IMHO I agree with Zack Zack about the error of "letting Hunter back into the race". Allowing a great runner to close only gives him or her more belief in their ability to outrun you. If I had the same lead as Salsbury I would have begun my kick early on the third lap to both create doubts in Hunter's mind as well as ensure that there was nothing left in my "tank" at the finish. Of course I didn't have a great closing kick like Salsbury, so this approach is a strategy more tailored to my own running style. I do, however, disagree with Zack Zack's assessment of Salsbury "not as mentally tough and cocky". Sounds more like self projection than an attempt to understand Salsbury's tactics. To me Salsbury made it a great race by running it according to his personal running strengths. Hunter was(is) in just another class.
What are YOU talking about? There were basically only two strategies that could've worked against Drew Hunter in this situation. Salisbury took a gamble and he lost. But his execution was perfect. Drew Hunter proved himself to be superior in every way, but Salisbury traditionally has a faster kick than Hunter, and on paper, his strategy should've worked. His execution was perfect, it just didn't work.
Shame. Really? Drew Hunter hangs his head in shame?! Seriously male announder, get outta here. And wait until you see the results for goodness sakes before doling out legendhoods and announcing winners. Woof.
First of all, Drew thought he had lost, so yea, he was hanging his head in shame, assuming he had messed up and cost his team. Second of all, they're announcers, they're suppossed to build suspense, which they did by speculating as to the results.
