We have experts in this or that discipline, we can tear up a track in the Velodrome, and all that gucci stuff.
Then we hit the buffers; hard. In this current case, the Relay Race.
What is it about Team GBR that cannot seem to grasp a baton correctly ?
Perhaps that should be "pass a baton" correctly ?
I'm no athlete, never have been, but the one thing I remember from school was the importance of the hand-over. We had to practice it often, and separately to the actual running.
Runner B (taking the baton), at the appropriate time, takes off at some speed; extends a left hand backwards, open and pointing downwards.
Runner A, giving the baton, brings the baton up into the hand of Runner B and as Runner B grasps it, lets go.
Runner A takes off like a scalded cat and Runner B collapses on the ground.
OR: Have I missed something here?
[ written before the 4x400m mens race; we came 4th ]
Then we hit the buffers; hard. In this current case, the Relay Race.
What is it about Team GBR that cannot seem to grasp a baton correctly ?
Perhaps that should be "pass a baton" correctly ?
I'm no athlete, never have been, but the one thing I remember from school was the importance of the hand-over. We had to practice it often, and separately to the actual running.
Runner B (taking the baton), at the appropriate time, takes off at some speed; extends a left hand backwards, open and pointing downwards.
Runner A, giving the baton, brings the baton up into the hand of Runner B and as Runner B grasps it, lets go.
Runner A takes off like a scalded cat and Runner B collapses on the ground.
OR: Have I missed something here?
[ written before the 4x400m mens race; we came 4th ]
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