Which is why I’ve said. If GJ is likely a chase pack swimmer (which I think we all think will be) it makes no sense to put her on the team in the current climate of how powerful the front pack women are and think she’s going to race to a medal from chase pack without help.
Like you can’t hope that Knibb misses or think she’s going to miss the front pack and thus that would allow GJ to sorta get pulled along. Even though that happened at test event, the chances of that happen again I would guess is low.
However….however what is Knibb’s swim training now? For years she’s swam with itu groups and now she’s sorta a free agent for herself there in Boulder. She doesn’t have her coach on deck and so she’s going to have to sorta pick and choose the best groups that allow her to join. Case in point- her even doing a video swim w GJ. With OB that never would have happened, very likely. So that’s another important note to pay attention to in the build up to Paris.
Knibb's tactic will be to make the front group and then shred the 12 or so select front group lap by lap anad hope she's given enough of a gap (or makes enough gap) to then hold on for dear life in the final 2km of the run. She's not going to medal coming out of T2 with 8 gals consisting of the likely gals that will should be there.
So Knibb's tactics is going to directly impact GJ and the chase group. So unless you put KZ or Spivey as a domestique for GJ, it's imo sorta an wasted spot if she can't swim front pack and stay in the front group 2km into the bike (after the initial surge that is 100% going to happen). Obviously if GJ AQ's, then she earns the spot, but if Knibb is racing Yoko like has been reported now, imo no shot of her making front group now.
Brooks Doughtie, M.S.
Exercise Physiology
-USAT Level II
Like you can’t hope that Knibb misses or think she’s going to miss the front pack and thus that would allow GJ to sorta get pulled along. Even though that happened at test event, the chances of that happen again I would guess is low.
However….however what is Knibb’s swim training now? For years she’s swam with itu groups and now she’s sorta a free agent for herself there in Boulder. She doesn’t have her coach on deck and so she’s going to have to sorta pick and choose the best groups that allow her to join. Case in point- her even doing a video swim w GJ. With OB that never would have happened, very likely. So that’s another important note to pay attention to in the build up to Paris.
Knibb's tactic will be to make the front group and then shred the 12 or so select front group lap by lap anad hope she's given enough of a gap (or makes enough gap) to then hold on for dear life in the final 2km of the run. She's not going to medal coming out of T2 with 8 gals consisting of the likely gals that will should be there.
So Knibb's tactics is going to directly impact GJ and the chase group. So unless you put KZ or Spivey as a domestique for GJ, it's imo sorta an wasted spot if she can't swim front pack and stay in the front group 2km into the bike (after the initial surge that is 100% going to happen). Obviously if GJ AQ's, then she earns the spot, but if Knibb is racing Yoko like has been reported now, imo no shot of her making front group now.
Brooks Doughtie, M.S.
Exercise Physiology
-USAT Level II
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