Good one by Hubert - Trinidad and Tobago's 4x4 power...again

[Karl]

You can't miss Deon Lendore on the 2014 400-metre performance. Do a glance and you'll find him in second place at 44.36 seconds. You won't have as much luck finding the young Trinidad and Tobago ace on the list of participants at the just concluded World Relay Championships. That's because he wasn't there.

Lendore is an outgoing senior at Texas A&M University and, in March succeeded Jamaican Errol Nolan as NCAA Indoor 400m champion. Commitments to Texas A&M kept the 2012 Olympic 4x400m bronze medallist away from Nassau. Even so, the men in red and black ran strongly for third and brought back memories of a glorious past.

Lalonde Gordon, Renny Quow, Carifta champion Machel Cedenio and Jarrin Solomon ran strongly to decimate the T&T national record, leaving it at two minutes 58.34 seconds.

http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/2...s/sports8.html

[Historian]

Not Just Trinidad

I have not read Hubert’s article as yet (I will later), but I expect that, as usual, he has provided accurate analysis.

In my opinion, though, the most promising 4x400-meter relay teams on the planet at this time are those from Trinidad & Tobago and from the Bahamas. In fact, in last weekend’s IAAF World Relays, the Americans had to depend solely on LaShawn Merritt for their win.

The question is, would the Americans have won if the Bahamas had its full A-Team? The injury of anchorman Ramon Miller forced the Bahamas to use a lesser talent, Latoy Williams, on the team (lead-off). Even so, LaShawn had to change gears to overall the Bahamian anchor (I believe it was Michael Mathieu on anchor).

Despite the very talented Javon Francis, I am not convinced that Jamaica will be a factor again until our top athletes end this single-minded focus on the 100 and 200-meter sprints! We can be a major factor in the 4x400-meter relays, but the athletes need to realize that everyone cannot be a Usain Bolt or Yohan Blake or Warren Weir!

[Don1]

overhaul

[Karl]

We should be in the mix. Anywhere from 2nd through 4th!!!

[Historian]

I Cannot Share Your Optimism!

We should be in the mix. Anywhere from 2nd through 4th!!!

The operative word, I guess, is the verb “should”!

Realistically speaking at this point, Karl , I would say “fourth through sixth” rather than your rather optimistic “anywhere from second through fourth” (and I say this despite our commendable -- rather, Javon Francis’ commendable -- performance at last year’s IAAF World Championships in Moscow)!

At the present time, the USA, the Bahamas and Trinidad & Tobago have superior men’s 4x400-meter relay teams when compared with Jamaica. Did you watch the recent Penn Relays, for example? Did you watch the recent IAAF World Relays, to cite another example?