Abbey D wins

Crushing the former 1500 meter runner with 200 to go.

I didn't get to watch it. How did Jordan "crumble". Anyone want to give a play by play. Or recap?

D'Agostino looked spent just before Hasay passed her. Hasay just doesn't have a kick. Both ran great.

jordan went with abbey with 600 to go, jordan up front. at 300 abbey blows past leaving no prisoners, and hasay just holds her roughly 70 second pace kick through to the end, possibly dying a little. saina comes back to get hasay in the last 50 meters. kinda like cross last year for hasay, giving up on winnign and then not even getting 2nd

Abbey always looks spent in the face, but don't let that fool you!

Boston34 wrote:

D'Agostino looked spent just before Hasay passed her. Hasay just doesn't have a kick. Both ran great.

AD ran the last 250m in the same time (roughly) it took Hasay to run about 175m. It was pretty ugly, or impressive, depending on your affiliation. It was Makh Daddy-esque the way she launched herself.

you sure? Abby won by 6 plus seconds...

I never noticed before, but I thought she was done. What poise.

Jordan goes 68 then 74 for her last 2 laps. I give her credit for pushing it and trying to kick from 800 out. Abbey D goes 69 and 66, with Saina 73 and 68 to close. Abbey in beast mode!

abbey was the one pushing from 800 out. hasay pushed from 425 out but was done 150 later.

thanks

Abbey D won the race and my heart.

Saina pulled an "Ian Stewart" hanging back then sprinting for 2nd. At least Hasay went for it.

Can't fault Jordan for putting herself in a position to have a chance. She gave everything she had. Diagostino was the superior athlete with an unanswered gear that made Jordan look like she was pounding post holes in the track. Saina couldn't hang on long enough to have a chance at a double but smelled blood in the water with 200 to go.

well...all things considered at lease jordan was by an american...and not another foreigner

RuKiddingMe!! wrote:

well...all things considered at lease jordan was by an american...and not another foreigner

All things considered you're a knuckle dragger.

Bill Huntington wrote:

Saina pulled an "Ian Stewart" hanging back then sprinting for 2nd. At least Hasay went for it.

I don't think that's a fair assessment. For one thing, Saina would presumably have been tired from the 10k 48 hrs earlier. For another, it looks like Hasay went something like 68-74 her last 2 laps. She went for the win and came up short, and paid a little bit at the end. Saina went something like 73-68 her last 2 laps. So she conceded 5 seconds to Hasay on the penultimate lap. I would interpret that as she just plain got dropped. It just happened that Hasay lost it right at the end, Saina sensed an opportunity, and took it. Just because you are a Hasay fan, and it sounds like she ran a gutsy effort, doesn't mean the person who caught her is a horrible person. (this is partially a response to what you wrote in that other thread)

really hard to believe that hassay fresh vs the other two after a ten k gets blistered like that in the last lap. i would love to see what hassay could do with someone else as a coach. four years, last race, and only race of the championship and she runs like that on the last lap. she had a much better kick as a sophomore.

Hasay will develop a kick if she starts working with salazar now.