Took to the last 8 seconds to get there...... hopefully they can go on fron here.
Thanks PT what a great article and story. Some funny stuff in there and shows you how far some of these refugees and migrants have to come.
‘Miss, Peter can run’: The chance school carnival event that uncovered an Olympian
Teacher Helen Leahy recalled struggling to find students to run in the 400-metre school carnival race when a child said to her, “Miss, Peter can run”.www.google.com.au
Yeah they got there in the end but did it hard. Missed 2 free throws late that would have put the result beyond doubt. One with 8 seconds to go and 27 points up. The Ricans got the rebound and jacked up a 3 that was pretty close to scoring. Bloody hell imagine if that had gone in and we won by 24…………
Can we send Benny Gale over to poach their fitness and conditioning coaches. A lot of our boys could build a few walnuts to my mind.
Yes, it was but is 200 her optimal distance for future medals? She ran 22.56 PB, she's only 21 and been coached for a few years now so how much better can she get? World best this year is 21.61 and a lot of women were ahead of her on times in the semi's today. She had a good reaction time and a good first 20m so she has to improve roughly 6 to 7m to get under 22 sec and be a medal chance. Be good to see how much she improves by Paris 2024 but I'd like to know what she has run for 400m? Perhaps train her endurance for that event.
Great story.‘Miss, Peter can run’: The chance school carnival event that uncovered an Olympian
Teacher Helen Leahy recalled struggling to find students to run in the 400-metre school carnival race when a child said to her, “Miss, Peter can run”.
All came down to a teacher at his school scratching around, trying to fill a school athletics team from a reluctant student body and one of his mates saying to the teacher that he thought Peter could run a bit.
As it should be. They aren’t playing. I don’t remember any of our GF umpires but I remember them being well umpired games. That should be enough. That ref maybe/likely cost the matildas a shot at gold. It’s a massive moment. You see those sort of infringements all the time. It’s the randomness of that decision that *smile* me.
To be fair on Edwards, he did at times (several times) look like he had really good race awareness as to where he was and needed to be, working his way into good positions several times, only to get forced into a *smile* position again. But it was the carnage around him that really cost him. Was probably on a knife's edge as to whether he could have matched the kick speed in the last 300m (he was still in the mix, albeit wavering). But the carnage around him killed his momentum at the point in the race where you are really building up lactic and there was no coming back from there.
Bit of trivia, Mary Fowler isn't actually indigenous Australian. A PNG mother and Irish father. Was eligible to represent Australia, Ireland, PNG (and I think I heard, possibly one other through grandparents?), but chose Australia. Has a brother playing U20s for Ireland. But yes, she really added life every game she was brought on. The team went from looking stale, to really having some zing when she came on. Particularly noticed that in the game vs GB.
Yeah, Fowler's heritage is quite mixed but no doubt she's going to be a bit of a star. Here's a good piece on the family The Fowlers
Nah, i think the Matildas are more like Richmond, we have one of the best strikers in the world, but we tend to bomb it in a bit too much, and lack a bit of system with our forward entries.
