| 13gentj |
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Who's going beat the other? |
| LowTower |
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Levins 20 seconds ahead of Ritz |
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Ritz has proven he can hold his own on the international stage. Levins and Ritz are probably at similar levels of fitness but experience is paramount. I would give the edge to Ritz at the moment. |
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How? Ritz's only experience on the world stage is cratering massively. 65th at World Cross much? |
| wdhetjetu |
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I'm surprised that this hasn't been mentioned in another thread yet but I believe that Cam is only running the 5,000m at the Olympics. Athletics Canada's list of Olympic track and field athletes has Cam listed for only the 5. http://athletics.ca/display_news.asp?newsid=1380 |
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How? Ritz's only experience on the world stage is cratering massively. 65th at World Cross much?[/quote] Olympic Marathon was pretty solid |
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Is Cam on the list only because he ran the 5000 in the Canadian trials, or because that's the one he's running? I thought he was already qualified for either event and only needed to run in the trials as proof of fitness. But I also heard that he was having some kind of hamstring problem. He certainly has the closing speed for either and it is quite conceivable if he's not quite 100% in the hamstring that he might go for the 5000 instead. |
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[/quote] How? Ritz's only experience on the world stage is cratering massively. 65th at World Cross much?[/quote] And the two bronze medals and 6th in the 10k |
| 13gentj |
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Yeah. In his first blog post he wrote "I have struggled with a minor setback for most of this week, but I seem to be coming out of it. Although it’s a tad frustrating to have a problem immediately after taking a week of swimming..." http://camlevins.blogspot.ca/2012/06/after-ncaa.html?m=1 Where did you hear that it was a hamstring issue? |
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and 3rd place in a Diamond League 5000m. |
| 13gentj |
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BTW cam did say that he was going to run he London Diamond League 5000 in a flotrack interview. |
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Just saw Cam MF Levins today and he is running both 5 & 10k |
| 13gentj |
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Which is first? 5k or 10k? |
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Since the 10,000 is first in the schedule, I think he'll have to run that first. |
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Levins is over trained, too much mileage too soon, he'll be lucky if ritz doesn't lap him |