Ed eyestone wrote:
I would agree on Rupp, Ward, Ritz, Puskedra, then Meb...in that order.
Seriously Wejo, what is your rationale for not mentioning Ward?
You must have mentioned 12 guys in the latest article....and no Jared Ward.
If you think he is a longshot tell me how long....and then we will make a little bet to make things interesting.
I think many of you don't get what the article was about. The article we wrote was about who was the favorite for the Trials - Ritz, Rupp or Meb. That was question #1. The 2nd question was which of those three was most likely to make the team. That's it. The which of those three was implied - maybe we didn't make that clear.. It was an internal debate.
In the course of our debate, a few other names were mentioned for illustrative purposes. We didn't come close to mention everyone.
It had NOTHING to do with Ward. Here are people with faster qualifying times than Ward's whom we also didn't mention
Ryan Vail
Elkanah Kibet
Fernando Cabada
Nick Arciniaga
Matt Llano
Josphat Boit
Aaron Braun
Shadrack Biwott
So counting Ward, we didn't mention 9 of the top 14 qualifiers since Teg is retired.
That article was meant to be exclusively about Rupp, Ritz and Meb - the big three- and which of them was a) most likely to make it and b) win it.
Don't worry we will do a full preview next week.