@ Soca.. I'm not going to defend my choice of words to describe the performances. MLA was the only promising performance at the meet. Okay AB did get a pb. I'll eat my words if she does get the Worlds standard. Other than that, how else would you describe the performances at the meet? I'm sure Callender and Hackett will quicker agree with me than you about their own performances this weekend.
I would describe the performances of Alena Brooks, Michelle-Lee Ahye & Semoy Hackett as good performances, Emmanuel Callender's performance as decent and Ayanna Alexander's as disappointing.
Again how can you sanely call 3 SB performances (by Alena Brooks, Michelle-Lee Ahye & Semoy Hackett) which included a PB by Alena Brooks and in addition one decent performance by Callender (who is more a 200m specialist) that was faster than Gatlin's winning 100m performance in Japan as mediocre results?
I've already outlined in detail in Reply #52 above exactly why the performances by Alena Brooks, Michelle-Lee Ahye & Semoy Hackett were all good perforamnces as they were all SB's performances that moved them all up in the IAAF 2017 Top Lists World Rankings.
I suggest you stop drinking that "unrealistic expectations coolade" that Sando gave you to drink.
I think we need to think and anaylse things a bit better before we rashly jump to chastise our T&T athletes for so-called mediocre peformances when in fact they are giving their their best efforts while taking on the best in the world.
As I said only Ayanna Alexander gave what we can describe as a mediocre peformance in the triple jump but since there is no video of her event I would be cautious to chastise her too much. What if she picked up an injury during her event for example as can easily happen when you do the triple jump and don't execute your technique correctly. Or maybe she just had a bad day at the office which happens to athletes from time to time.
The other athletes however did reasonably well and performed credibly. We could not reasonably be expecting Callender who has a PB of 10.05 set all the way back in 2009 to beat the likes of Yohan Blake with a PB of 9.69, Ronnie Bake with a PB of 9.98 and Mike Rodgers with a PB of 9.85, if all of them are anywhere near their best form. Not unless of course we are living in cloud coo coo land.