Will Sumner 800m HS attempt vs the Oregon Pros(Hunter, Hocker, and Teare)!

Your logic is flawed. When Flatt ran his 1:46.51 it was against professionals and he finished 4th. When Will Sumner ran his 1:46.53, only .02 off Flatt's run, he ran against professionals and he won the race. Who cares about a fast time?

Sumner has so much more potential than Flatt does. Flatt is already fully developed into his man body. Sumner has a lot more development to go. Sumners superior sprinting speed compared to Flatt also tells me that has a higher ceiling than Flatt does. If anything, Flatt will be the one that "will flame out and be another middle of the pack US runner."

Flatt need to be humbled in a big way and I hope that Sumner is the one that does it. He really is full of himself.

bruh why are you rooting for someone to do bad? especially a high school kid, cmon dude. He's a cocky teenager who's #2 on the HS all time list, what is wrong with you that you feel the need to put one of the fastest high schoolers ever down?

How much does Sumner run per week? How much does Flatt run per week? How old are they? Just curious points to make...

Flatt has only been running about 2 miles a week. Just wait till he doubles his mileage to 4 miiles a week. He may run 1:42.

What I saw was someone that was answering a person that was putting down sumner. Both are wrong but is it Ok to bag on sumner and not flatt? That seems a bit hypocritical to me. I also didn’t read that someone was “rooting against” flatt.

Flatt sure seems to have a lot of fanbois here.

I’m calling it here. When he runs 20 mpw for college XC, we will see him drop a sub 22 8k.

i didnt read what he was responding to bc it was too long tbh but nah they shouldnt bag on either of them

I know they want to get their boy the standard which is most important but it would be insane to see olympians sit and kick on a high schooler

What standard? Another clueless response. He has run fast enough to be in the USATF Champs, let alone Jr. Nats..lol

The standard he's talking about is the 800 standard for the World Athletics Championship, which is 1:45.20. Their guy is Charlie Hunter of Australia. I'll be surprised if he gets it but they'll give it a go.

Yeah with that 1.5s 400m cushion, the extra minute of running will def work to his advantage. Especially against 3:50 milers.

I don't think Flatt has a chance in hell of breaking it in a HS field on a slow track in 100 heat index in Philly today. Sumner will be the guy we remember when the season is over.

Yeah I was going to say something similar such as does that poster realize that 400 speed is not the **only** thing that matters in an 800?? Or....

Sumner is not within 25 or 30 seconds [?] of Hocker or Teare's mile PB so...... he definitely will place waaay behind them . [Satire by the way]

I’ll go with 1:45.67 for Summer.

Don’t tell me I had the wrong guy! Hahahahahahaha!

Hocker and Teare are no longer racing.

Hunter, Reed brown and Wisner

Confirmed

hoping for some fireworks at USA’s.

Hocker and Teare DNS and Will ran 1:48.41.

So did Nike screw over Sumner????

Goes way out to OR to run a special staged 800 in the Nike castle. Two of Nike's biggest US pro stars are scheduled to run but then do not show up. One of the Nike pacers never leads/paces anyone, follows all, and drops out at 600. A former Nike University runner and now AUS pro runs way slower than planned. Sumner may have thought he was ok if he stayed close to the Nike AUS pro but runs way slower than planned and way slower Flatt did today. Sumner does finish second overall but that means nothing in this race. and he also finishes DFL.