BeanButterBaconBoots wrote:
This kid is good. Real good. How good? Fancy good! America is in trouble deep with this guy blasting fancy times for the next ten years. Yes, America has only one hope. AJ Acosta is the only American who can out run this Kenyan.
For an entire decade these two titans of the track will battle it out. I can not wait!
Are you kidding? Acosta couldn't get within 50m of Kiprop. Not now, not ever. Don't get me wrong, Acosta's good, real good, but he won't be world-class. I say he'll probably be a 3:35 guy at his best, in a dogfight to make WC and Olympic teams. Kiprop, on the other hand, has a very bright future ahead of him. As long as he doesn't burn out early like other great young Kenyans in the past. That would suck.
PS what people don't tend to realize is that in North America, for every footlocker champ who runs 3:40 low or whatever in HS and gets singled out and touted as the next great one, there are at least a half dozen kids across the country (and a even a few up north) who are just as fast and talented. It's unfair that one kid should get all the hype a la Acosta when there is a strong group that are equally talented and promsing. Unless you're Alan Webb, HS is just too early to tell which of these prodigies burn out and which ones go on to become world-beaters.