Michaela Meyer ran a 2:00.28 to win the 800m for the Virginia Cavaliers track team at the 2021 NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championship held in Eugene, Oregon.
I love watching there races, because even in my prime, as a guy, I couldn’t come close to these women. I was a sprinter/jumper and 400m kicked my butt. Can’t imagine sprinting 800 or more.
@@cjspyker Yes I was wondering why Athing Mu was not in this race; now I know why! Thanks she is one of my favorites her and Sydney Mclaughlin love those young ladies!
My guess she stayed out to set the 400m CR. She has the 800m CR. Soon she'll just go pro as she will have no competition in NCAA in the future. Heck, she didn't have any this year for that matter. No reason to stay NCAA.
@@blackout07blue I agee. She won by more than a full second (1.17 seconds) and broke her own collegiate record. To win by more than a full second is easily.
Quick question...I measured the 800m one turn stagger on our local track and it was exactly the same as the 200m one turn stagger. Shouldn't the 800 stagger be a bit longer since they have to break in after the first turn? Thanks for any insight!
I hope they're pulling Olympic trials qualifications from the college championships. Olympic qualification is 2:02. People who ran under that should be allowed to do Olympic trials
The pressure of expectation and how to handle it is something to focus on. Tanner, Tamara Clark, and TT did not show up today. They had been dominate ALL YEAR. That's the world of Athletics. You never know whose DAY it is.
TT gave her all and came from behind to give her team the win in the 4x1. She probably sacrificed some of her individual success to get that first team win and give the Trojans some momentum. So from my perspective, TT had an excellent day. Fight on!
@@moctrof2451 You don’t take risk in the last race of the year after race 2 days of time trials for a NCAA championship on the line. As you saw slow and steady win the race. Only one woman can run that pace and survive, and she won the 400m.
They went out in 57.6. I knew that was too fast. They totally died on the home stretch. I see that a lot on the ncaa level. You would think at this level they would know that's a bit too fast. 🤦🏾♂️
Maybe for most NCAA, but not necessarily all of them at championship level. Meyers and Barton ran 58 flat and ended up 2:00. But yeah, Tanner and Maloney didn't have the training to pull that off in finals.
Why NCAA only post track event and only the wining jump or throw from the field events. The sport is Track & Field. Even on the TV coverage is the same. I don't understand.
ESPN live streamed and recorded the full sessions of every single field event. You might be able to still see them at ESPN3 if you have a cable subscription.
@@PrimeSuperboy that means that she's running comfortably and not breathing heavy (through her mouth)....some runners do it cuz it plays mind games with others who may be feeling the burn.
The girls ran over right in front of the lead runner cutting her speed off once your speed cut in a 800m it’s hard to gain it back but that’s how it goes In longer races
I love this race but clearly you can't peak here, the trials and the Olympics. To have any chance at the Olympics you had to be training through this week.
Almost no one trains through the NCAA Championships. This is their penultimate race. Sure a few of the special athletes have the trials in mind, but many of the winners have not even attained the Olympic standard. This is the race they peak for.
@@keithv3767 every Senior at every college does, or they just saw their career end yesterday. Also several underclassmen didn't even participate, due to Olympic Trials being next week.
Maloney probably would have benefitted from breathing through her mouth wide open during the first 400 so that she doesn't go into oxygen debt so early.
You hear the female narrator.... tons of turnover!!!! That turnover is accented and stretched..she only appear to be pulling away because other females were fading... she ended to shortent the stride and rotate the cycle faster pushing off the ground... how yougot the opportunity to narrate?
@@branching123 If you are really an announcer you should know Jill Montgomery is prepared, well researched and comment accurately what an athlete goes thru. No I'm not a narrator but ran 400m hurdles for my country in the Commonwealth Games. That's my currency. Dwight Stone is a former Olympic high jumper and he's great. What the he'll are you talking about. Paul Swansgard is the worst commentator. Maybe Lewis Johnson with the same old damn question" What does this victory mean to you"
@@cute_as_ducks52 the runners are very bunch up and so one spike or one arm swing can ruin someone race. These lady’s are wonderful, but it very easy to impede your competitors in this race is what I meant
The commentators are hilarious. They are saying as though there is a strategy to winning a race. I'm just a layman, but jeez, I don't know, maybe the strategy to winning is RUN AS FAST AS YOU CAN???
clearly there was strategy involved? if you run as fast as you can, you'll completely burn yourself out. there's a reason the winner was in the middle of the pack the majority of the race and then surged ahead at the perfect moment to get the W. and that doesn't even include all the strategy that goes into the moment they all cross into the inside lane, passing during the curves vs the straights, jockeying for position, cutting off other runners, etc.
@@willis1359 There is no one to tackle you to bring you down or hurdles you have to jump over, so why would you burn yourself out when you have only one job which is running? It's not like, they need to save their strength for climbing over that hill later. The fact that you need to run slow so that you can run faster later shows how ridiculous this sport is. Just run fast all the way!
If your analysis were correct, The lady who lead for the first lap would have won. You may have noticed the announcers mentioned she often did that and "set the race up for other competitors. She lead half the race or more to be sure, but the only place where leading matters is at the finish line.
@@purplecrayon7281 It's a good idea to not talk about things you don't know shit about. Races aren't time trials. There's some strategy regarding your positioning in the field, the pace at which you run. For example, some runners have a much better kick than others are are more content to sit back a little then use their kick to their advantage. In response to that, runners who don't have a great kick may want to keep the pace high the whole time so as to diminish the advantage the good kickers have in that it gives them less energy to mount a large kick.
