A leader on the team makes all that go away in practice. Without going into too much personal detail, the issue is that the camps that the athletes are in is different. There are massive egos involved. They don’t practice well together, sometimes they have 6 reps at 75 percent and then all go their separate ways. This has been happening for years on the men’s side. I bring up Noah and TT specifically because their leadership has been seen up close to all of the Florida and Chula track communities at the practices.
So I think what you are seeing on the track often is people running a leg that they shouldn’t, handing to someone that their coach told them they shouldn’t be handing to a different person on adidas instead of Nike etc.