Shalane Flanagan is no longer even the best American runner at the 5k now

you are an idiot

no actually he is right...did u not see her race just now on espn..get witht he program

i didn't realize one bad race defined how good you are.

I think Barringer could beat Flanagan in a 5k right now.

As would Rowbury based on how close she was in the road 5k to todays winner.

Anybody else not able to get the womens 1500/5000 results on the adidas website? The men's races were scheduled for after, and they're all up...

Cook's team won two for two races there very handily last year. Now look how these two did without him. They are both talented, so I'd expect them to recover. But wasn't a good move by either.

Universal Sports:

Shalane Flanagan: In her first outdoor race of the season, the Beijing bronze medalist at 10,000m had high hopes of breaking her American record of 14:44.80 in the 5000m. After hanging with the lead pack early, she uncharacteristically seemed to begin laboring after the first mile and struggled to a fourth-place finish.

Erin Donohue: In her first race of the outdoor season, the 2008 Olympian in thw 1500m still needs to run the qualifying standard for the World Championships in Berlin. In a double-dose of bad luck, the race rabbitt Sherron Rhetta came nowhere near setting the desired fast pace, making a time near 4:06 impossible for anybody in the field. Then Donohue was unable to close on the leaders and was passed by three runners near the finish.

Finals

1 Kiros, Aheza E T H 14:56.33

2 Dibaba, Ejegayehu E T H 15:07.45

3 Kipyego, Sally K E N 15:09.03

4 Flanagan, Shalane U S A 15:10.86

5 Rhines, Jen U S A 15:36.09

6 Tollefson, Carrie U S A 15:52.38

7 Hastings, Amy U S A 15:59.87

8 Hall, Sara U S A 16:33.62

-- Kosgei, Rose K E N DNF

-- Wurth- Thomas, Christin U S A DNF

Finally saw the results. You call that bombing? Sara Hall bombed. Shalane just had an off day. People aren't used to seeing her lose by 14 seconds, but so what. She'll bounce back. She medalled in the Olympics after being sick with food poisoning. There must have been a good reason she was hurting, and hopefully it's not an injury, and we'll see her old record-breaking badass self again soon.

She looked like she was laboring out there. It looked like there were a lot more issues than just having a bad day. She looked uncomfortable out there and completely unprepared. This truly shows what she gave up when she walked away from Cook. Big big mistake on her part and now she is paying for it.

Why wasn't Genzebe Dibaba runnning?

1500m - Manzano, Leo U S A 3:57.55

Was Leo coached by COOK too or was he just training with the COOK gals?

Leo is coached by Cook and Vigilante. He will be fine. Just had a brain fart.

joe cockers wrote:

1500m - Manzano, Leo U S A 3:57.55

Was Leo coached by COOK too or was he just training with the COOK gals?

Good call. I think he's being trained by Cook, at least that was my assumption.

As for the best 5k runner right now, that distinction goes to Barringer. No way she doesn't beat Flanagan in this race. No way. Can Flanagan get back into shape by Berlin? Certainly. But she's gonna have to. The woman that ran that 5k yesterday wouldn't beat Jenny B right now, let alone Africa's best.

So Shalane "bombs" a race and runs three seconds slower than Barringer... you guys don't seem very confident that Jenny will remain the fastest for very long.

Cook is listed as Leo's coach in USATF site.

It is major when athletes such as Wejo can put on their site that manzano and shalane "totally bombed" having been athletes themselves. Listen folks, in running, nothing is guranteed. You call 15:10 for a female 5000m 'bombing' when her american record is not that far off at 14:44? I can understand when high schoolers get on here and bitch about slower times but having been an athlete Wejo, be professional and understand the athlete. It is great this site has a mixture of postivity and a great deal of negativity from runners who really dont have the room to talk but elite runners and a 28:06 10K bad mouthing other athletes who are trying to run in the public eye, its tacky. Keep the site positive please instead of complaining that the weather was bad for addidas. The rest of the meet being run poorly is a viable bit of information but not critiquing how shitty an athlete ran, being an athlete yourself you should no not all days are perfect in our business.

If she was showing trouble in the FIRST mile, then thats not a sign of being out of shape, thats something else (injury, offday, cramps, tiredness).

um, 3:57 for 1500m is bombing.

26 seconds at that level in a 5000 is significant. I can only imagine the uproar if Rupp said he was aiming to PR in a 5K and ran 13:44.