I don't care much about women's track-and-field, and I resent YouTube and other outlets trying to force feed it to me as something as I should be concerned with just as much as men's T&F. Frankly, the YouTube videos seem to have a lot of pretending to care about athleticism but somehow always focusing on the women's butts in their almost thonglike shorts. Similar to beach volleyball that way. It's irritating.
But when you follow the men, you can't help but getting the headlines, the "earlier today" commentary on the videos, and the sidebar of the women's events. Plus I have always liked the middle distances and the off-events, those non-sexy (in the popularity sense) events, like the hurdles, steeplechase and the "-athlons." So I have to mention Sidney McLaughlin and her stunning records at this point. For reference, the woman in lane 6 is running at a pace that used to be world-best for any year until about 2015, while the women in lanes 1 and 3 would have been Olympic champions since forever. This world record used to go down about 0.03 or 0.07 every few years. That's it. The second-place finisher would have been lionised as revolutionising the event until two years ago.
Sidney McLaughlin is flat-out amazing.
If you want to watch the other world championship events, you will notice that many small Caribbean nations like Grenada or T&T do very well. And of course there's Jamaica.
But don't you dare believe in genetics.
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That run is amazingly smooth and fast. She beat the other woman by a good 3 seconds.
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