Age 18: Aouita started training
Age 19: first serious season
PBs of: 1:49; 3:42.3; 13:48.5; 8:40.16
Age 20:
new PBs of 1:47.8; 2:20.0; 3:37.08; 8:02.1
Age 21:
new PBs of: 1:47.0; 13:39.0 (according to Robert Hartmann: 1:46.4 and 3:34.9 in training - RH was most renowned German athletics journalist at he time, but no idea if the times are true)
World Student Games Champion
victories in cross Country (12km) over: Jaques Boxberger; Francis Gonzalez; Joseph Mahmoud; Fethi Baccouche; Jean Louis Prianon; Bruno LeStum; Dominique Chauvelier, Pierre Levisse
Age 22:
new PBs: 2:19.22; 3:57.75; 5:02.44; 8:01.59
medals at the African Championships at both 800m and 1500m
victories in Cross Country (12km) over: Carlos Lopes; Jaques Boxberger; Pierre Levisse; Jean Lous Prianon; Joseph Mahmoud; Karel Lismont
Age 23:
world class results in the 800m and 1500m
Yet, when someone just has enough hate, this even can summed up to "spends most of his early twenties running 1:50/3:40". This - again - clearly shows with which sort of person we have to deal here. Someone definitely not interested in the facts but someone interested to win some sort of battle. Laughable.
Aouita's great range already was to see in his first season. Yes, he has not improved on his 1500m PB for two seasons (apart from this quoted training run). And so what? After two years of training, he has achieved a great 3:37.08. Obviously a great talent. But even in his first seasons it's very obvious that he just couldn't (did not want) focus on just one event. He tried the 800m. He tried the 1500m. He tried the 5000m. He tried the 3000m Steeple. He tried the long Cross Country.
You are a liar.
You claimed to have a link which shows when Aouita moved to Italy. And for sure I'm stupid just for asking. So far you have not given this link.
You have claimed that Aouita's 2 Mile from Torino is in YouTube (can you please give the link?). And - again - for sure I'm stupid just for asking. Because - for you - it's obvious how the race unfolded. No, it's not. It was during an ITA v. USSR match. I have never seen the race, and same for you. But you just can't agree to this.
But this definitely is not very important at all. Probably there was a pacemaker. But for sure your only point is/was to show what great runner Ovett was and how bad Aouita actually was. This is just so laughable. Ovett has had a pacemeker until 90 meters before the finish! And we are talking about one of Ovett's determining races and a not very special one of Aouita.
You are still writing as fact, that Aouita "ducked" Coe in Zürich 1984. This is far from a fact (without any question) and there are some good reasons to believe that the opposite is true.
This was already given to you to the subject: "No European racing season can be complete without world-record attempts in the middle distances, of course, and the Zurich meet had three of them—all unnecessary failures. In the first, Olympic 5,000 champion Said Aouita of Morocco missed Sebastian Coe's mile mark by more than two seconds with a 3:49.54, a time that was nonetheless the fastest of the year. Coe, Britain's two-time Olympic 1,500 gold medalist, then fell nearly two seconds short of countryman Steve Ovett's 1,500 record with a time of 3:32.39. Finally, Brazil's Joaquim Cruz, the Olympic champion in the 800, turned in the third-fastest 800 in history: a 1:42.34, just .61 off another of Coe's world marks.
While each race was exciting, each was also notably flawed. The problem with the mile was that it shouldn't have been run. It had been hastily added to the program at the last minute to accommodate Aouita, who really wanted to run the 1,500 but was refusing to cooperate with Coe's record attempt in that race. "It seems to me we can't have this," griped Coe. "There are few occasions when you can actually go out and try for a world record." Said Aouita, "If I'd beaten Coe I would've gotten the world record. I go into the race with a better time this year [3:31.54] and he wants me to help him."
But still just writing the same nonsense again and again. This is also some sort of lie: writing as fact, which definitely (no room for some other interpretation here) is not a fact.
Same thing for LA: Aouita ducked Coe. Yeah. He probably choose the event where he thought his chances to win a Gold medal (the first ever for his Country at the Olympics - any Sport) are higher (to run both was not possible - totally unfair disadvantage for a runner with his fantastic range). But you just want to distract from the fact, which is included in the point: that the fastest runner of 1984 in both the 1500m and the Mile, the runner who was unbeaten during the season in 9 international races in the event, the runner with fantastic finishing capabilities was not there. For sure the real question is: Would Coe still have won? I don't know the answer. You also don't know it. For sure Coe has run a great race, so Aouita really must have been close to his '84 capabilities to have a chance. All you can do is: the 5000m competition was so weak. (Yeah, it produced the PERFORMANCES Nr. 3, 6, 10, 14. It was not weak. Even if it would have been - it hardly would have been Aouita's fault. But it wasn't.
Your reasoning because of my quote re the east Germans/1980 is so utterly stupid, that I hardly can find a serious comment.