Effective coaching can help athletes fight severe weather conditions
There are no two opinions about the fact that experiences of coaches are the most crucial factors that determine the quality of output produced by the players trained by them. Every athlete has the talent and potential to appear at world class events, but
the nitty-gritty of excellence only comes under the guidance of professionally trained and experienced coaches.
Perhaps this is the reason that it has been seen that athletes trained by coaches with better qualities usually produce superior results on the field. A living example of this phenomenon is of Jeremy Wariner and Sanya Richards-Ross.
It was perhaps their mentor’s efforts that Jeremy Wariner and Sanya Richards-Ross finished first in the 400m competitions at the Michael Johnson Invitational meeting. The event proved to be a great achievement for Clyde Hart, the coach of the winning duo.
In the men’s event, Wariner opened his first-half while displaying a conservative run on the track, but entering into the final hundred meters, he paced himself up and ran stride by stride with Renny Quow, the bronze medal winner from Berlin unless he was
left with about 50m to go for the finishing line. From there on, the athlete displayed a show of his full strength and pulled himself away from the rest of the runners. He crossed the finishing line in 45.61 seconds, while Quow finished the race in 45.69 seconds.
The preceding session comprised of Mychal Dungey from Texas Christian clocking even a closer time while running side by side with Marcus Boyd. Both of them covered the targeted 400m distance in a time of 45.64 and 45.65 seconds, respectively.
For Wariner, this was the first win of the year and with the display of such a level of performance, he has high expectations of dominating the rest of the season just like he did a few years ago.
Commenting upon his win, Wariner, the winner of the Olympics 2004 and title holder of last year’s inaugural Samsung Diamond League said, “It wasn’t as fast as I could have liked, but I’ll take it. The wind was in my face about three-quarters of the race.
It was tough, especially in the home stretch. Coach wanted me to run 21.5 for the first 200, but I ran 21.8.”
The formidable athlete said that he wanted to complete the distance in less than 44 seconds, but since it was his first 400m meet of the year, he was still content with he result. The effort he clocked this time was almost the same he marked last year at
his first race in Puerto Rico and he was feeling good with his attempt.
While running in 2010, Wariner lead his rivals with a formidable finishing time of 44.13 seconds and managed to win all but one 400m race event. In the women’s event, it was Richards-Ross, the girl who ran her first 400m in the last ten months, who prevailed
as the winner.
Starting her race after the fire, Ross found herself three metres down to Jessica Beard, the runner from Texas A&M and she maintained this distance until the half-way mark. From there on, she ran a strong curve and put in her entire strength to pull away
from Beard. She won the race for crossing the finishing line in 52.00 seconds. Beard, for ending in a time of 52.37 seconds, secured the second spot.
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