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Fitzgerald Mosley said the athletes selected to the relay pool will be required to participate in a training camp the week before Worlds. The camp will be held outside of Berlin and will be closed to the media. She said that by the time that training camp breaks, the athletes will know what rounds and legs they will be running and should be better prepared than the athletes in Beijing.
“By the time (athletes) leave training camp for Berlin the coaches will have communicated the expectations,” Fitzgerald Mosley said. “They will know , ‘Am I running the first round or am I running the final? What leg of the relay am I going to run?’ Some of those things weren’t well communicated to the athletes, particularly in Beijing, and we want to clear that up.
“When I was preparing for my races, I would always be able to visualize being in that stadium before, my preparation for that meet, who my competition might be, what lane I might be in on the track. It’s really hard to understand an athlete going to the Olympic Games and walking into the warm-up track and not fully knowing what they are expected to do.”
This transparency in the selection process is not only refreshing but is expected to pay immediate dividends. But it also should not be overlooked that the decision makers in this process all have strong relay backgrounds, which could influence the selections.
Cheeseborough, the head coach at Tennessee State University, won gold medals less than an hour apart in both the 4x100 and 4x400 relays at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, becoming the first woman ever to accomplish that double-relay feat.
Glance, the head men’s coach at the University of Alabama, ran the opening leg on the gold medal winning 4x100m relay team at the 1976 Olympics in Montreal. As a member of U.S. relay teams, Glance went on to win gold medals at the 1979 Pan American Games, the 1985 IAAF World Cup, the 1987 Pan American Games and the 1987 World Championships.
Both also were assistant coaches in Beijing and have been entrusted to correct the mistakes that were made a year ago.
“How much space you are going to give in the zone and what exchanges are you going to use during different weather conditions are decisions that coaches have been making most of their lives,” Fitzgerald Mosley said. “They just need to go back to the basics and make the very sound decisions that they’ve made for their college teams.
"Chandra and Harvey know what to do. My approach as an executive has always been to not dictate to people what they should or shouldn’t do. I’m just going to oversee the process to make sure that it is sound.”
“By the time (athletes) leave training camp for Berlin the coaches will have communicated the expectations,” Fitzgerald Mosley said. “They will know , ‘Am I running the first round or am I running the final? What leg of the relay am I going to run?’ Some of those things weren’t well communicated to the athletes, particularly in Beijing, and we want to clear that up.
“When I was preparing for my races, I would always be able to visualize being in that stadium before, my preparation for that meet, who my competition might be, what lane I might be in on the track. It’s really hard to understand an athlete going to the Olympic Games and walking into the warm-up track and not fully knowing what they are expected to do.”
This transparency in the selection process is not only refreshing but is expected to pay immediate dividends. But it also should not be overlooked that the decision makers in this process all have strong relay backgrounds, which could influence the selections.
Cheeseborough, the head coach at Tennessee State University, won gold medals less than an hour apart in both the 4x100 and 4x400 relays at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, becoming the first woman ever to accomplish that double-relay feat.
Glance, the head men’s coach at the University of Alabama, ran the opening leg on the gold medal winning 4x100m relay team at the 1976 Olympics in Montreal. As a member of U.S. relay teams, Glance went on to win gold medals at the 1979 Pan American Games, the 1985 IAAF World Cup, the 1987 Pan American Games and the 1987 World Championships.
Both also were assistant coaches in Beijing and have been entrusted to correct the mistakes that were made a year ago.
“How much space you are going to give in the zone and what exchanges are you going to use during different weather conditions are decisions that coaches have been making most of their lives,” Fitzgerald Mosley said. “They just need to go back to the basics and make the very sound decisions that they’ve made for their college teams.
"Chandra and Harvey know what to do. My approach as an executive has always been to not dictate to people what they should or shouldn’t do. I’m just going to oversee the process to make sure that it is sound.”
Paul Marin -19 is one thing, 20 is a whole other matter. It gets even worse if they win the UCL. *groan*. 
05/18/2011.MU fans naah cough, but all a unuh a vomit?-Lazie 1/11/2015
Flash Gordon?
Where have you been hiding! 
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any male athlete that came after Bob could live with him on anchor!
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