hey what's up everyone morey croson here and today
we're going to be breaking down the women's 200 meter final as well as
the men's 200 meter semi-final and we're gonna start the video right now
all right so we got here the women's 200 meter final on the right and then we have the men's
200 meter semifinal here on the left the big thing is you know going into erriyon knighton
and then you know with the the women's obviously you know elaine thompson just really showing
that she is you know just somebody that that is continually overlooked and and probably one of the
best overall sprinters of of all time you know she's coming around this curve so well way out
in front of everybody i mean it almost looked like she wasn't even didn't even need to try
i mean this whole time she was basically winning this race uh from from the get-go you know elaine
had a good start there at the beginning and was able to pick up some ground but definitely got
you know hot from from behind by both gabby thomas and and i was interested to see how
gabby thomas would do because you know going into the olympic trials the u.s elementary trials she
was doing okay like the heats and the semi-final and everything and then came into the finals and
just like blew everybody away and ran a great time in her 200 meter and so you know i was hoping to
be able to maybe see that as well in the final but you know she ended up coming in third with
amboma coming in second right here and and she is very very intriguing because you know she can
get that curve down because it looks like that's really her thing you know when she came around the
curve in buma here you know she was probably in in you know either seventh place sixth place you
know something like that she was definitely down is the point she's only 18 years old
and you know just has overall a ton of potential here because she was you know at least in in sixth
place right um or at least in fifth place sorry uh maybe even in sixth place so you know for her
to be able to come all the way back to second you know her top speed is just crazy and she
was doing the same thing to gabby thomas the whole time and the you know heat you know peter in the
snow fell in her original heat uh by just coming back here at the end so you know she has such a
big long stride there and really was able to catch even elaine thompson there at the end you know
from top end speed perspective but uh you know elaine thompson's just amazing in her ability to
you know and the big thing that i think stands out with elaine thompson and what she's able to do so
consistently and you see this a little bit with allison felix as well is you know that that hand
position right you know i think that having that hand position a little bit further out
i see a lot of people that end up getting their hands a little bit more close to like their their
chest and their chin but instead of reaching that hand out and i think by by keeping your hands
out in front of you a little bit more it helps in really maximizing your frontside mechanics
right gets your body to reach a little bit more out in front i think there's a
definite correlation between how you are turning over with your your legs uh in comparison to how
you're turning over with your hands and and with your arm so you know if you're
not moving your arms fast you're not going to be able to move your legs fast and vice versa
and i think this is a great representation of you know how you want to really be reaching with those
legs and with those arms uh as you're running and you can see i mean there's really nobody at
this point there's really nobody at the at the in the frame you know as she's finishing here
um and so it just shows that that elaine thompson right now is just head and shoulders better than
any other women's sprinter she wins 100 wins at 200 both of them you know with with fairly
um you know good ease and and just shows that that as of right now no one's even close to her
uh in terms of overall performance we're gonna quickly interrupt this video just to say if you
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channel we're gonna hop right back in the video so now we're gonna go to the men's you know that
what's interesting about the men's side is you know erriyon knighton and he's only 17
you know so we have two super young athletes in bulma here on the right uh erriyon knighton
here on the left 17 years old and you know as he's coming around the stretch you know he didn't get
a great start you know he was a little bit behind here as he was coming out of the blocks but then
as he came around the curve here he almost like did it on purpose where he could now kind of
look to see what his competition is like and was looking over to the right the whole time and then
just blew by everybody which was amazing let's just see from a um you know speed perspective
so he's touching the ground let's say it about point seven nine somewhere in there and it's
back off the ground about point eight seven there on the right leg and there's touching the ground
again about point two four and three so that's about a point three seven not bad for you know his
it's not bad he is you know six foot three and so for his height i think that ends up being pretty
good and then this is a little bit longer race with it being the 200 meter 7.37 is definitely
not a bad place to be at this point let's look at odoroo here on and um blaine was at seven
and we'll see where his numbers are at so he's landing probably about 0.26 you know we'll go
to about the same type of thing here he's off probably about 0.35 so a little bit longer for
contact time 0.09 and landing back down at 7 4. so a little bit longer transition time as well 0.39
so he's spending a little bit more time per step and he's also not near as tall he's only five foot
seven and so that ends up making a big difference you know erriyon knighton is definitely built for
the 200 meter with with those long strides right he's turning over really really quickly here with
his you know overall yeah just natural turnover speed he has really good for contact time as well
as being six three so that's why he's able to you know eat everybody up so easily because you
know with 0.37 turnover time that's that's pretty fast you know usain bolt was in like point three
five two point three six which is you know truly amazing for him being six foot five
and you know the full contact time though is in that .08 area you know anything sub point one ends
up being the big thing here when it comes to elite sprinting right a lot of times i see you guys
and people that are point one and above and i'm in that same category and what makes you really elite
is getting into that point of weight so now you know what it seems like you need to do in order
to get more to that .08 number is to be able to land a little bit further out in front of your
on your foot so instead of landing you know really far back on your foot you want to be landing
a little bit closer to the edge and then just be able to have more of your weight forward as you're
landing to make it so then you can immediately kind of hop right back off the ground you know
pretty easily but but here you i mean you can see erriyon knighton just easily jogging here i think
he ran like a 20.02 um and just jogged there at the end you know he didn't even have to reach or
extend or anything so definitely excited to see the final you know he did the same type of thing
in the olympic trials he ended up coming in third behind noah lyles and kenny vagnerick you know
going into the olympic trials and he was doing really good going into it so it'll be interesting
to see you know if it ends up being a similar type situation or if you know erriyon knighton
will be able to you know have an even lower time than he already has he already has the uh
the world's under 18 world record so you know very very very intriguing to see what ends up happening
tomorrow in the 200 meters so super excited as always guys thanks for watching the videos if
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