US 800m Men Stink - We Needed CADE FLATT!!!

Cade can't compete because to show you all how talented he is he's currently only running 799 meters a week. If it wasn't for that though he'd be a gold medalist for sure.

The two most promising candidates for our national team were in high school this year. One graduated already, the other has a senior year. That new blood will push the others and the three that survive that process will be strong for the 2024 Olympics. It's hard to do, but no hard to understand. Be in 1:44 flat shape, on demand, in heats or in semis and ease up toward the end if your heat is not that competitive. Then, in the final race anyone who can do sub 1:42, from the gun, and see where you end up. I like Will Sumner's chances of being in 1:44 flat shape by 2024, although Cade Flatt could too. Three guys who can make the final, instead of none on can make a seminfinal now is a different landscape and both are still young in 2028.

You can only be two months out of college once.

Yeah I would like to see some inexperienced HS kid with good HS time trial speed mix it up with Euro and African veteran racers from the Diamond League....right... Chewed up and spit out would be the apt descriptor.

Alan Webb as a professional ran perhaps 2 or 3 really good world class DL level RACES in his entire European career.

Time Trialing ability and flat out speed has no relationship to DL style race success.

The 800 is one of those few events where the young kids can really compete with the best. That's why I'd rather see Andrew Wheating lace up than have ole man Cade trying to race African teenagers.

Flatt will forever be known for giving away the high school 800m record at USA's while jogging into the finish. And this was after obsessing over that record for months. Incredible.

No, we needed the guy with solid tactics who has world-level experience and a global medal: we needed Murphy.

Dude hasn't enough base in the tank to run rounds at a World Champs level. One and done, I'm afraid.

Stupid, but not quite as stupid, as Sahlman didn't (and couldn't) make it through the first round of qualifcations at USAs even if he tried this year. He didn't even qualify for USAs.

He could have made the cut after a 10-mile week

Guys, track can be random and occasionally cruel. We’re dominating the medals, chill out.

This isn’t a crisis. We just had a bad day. It happens.

Wheating man, Barnicle Boy, and FLATTTT

IIf they were in, easy peezy 1 2 3 at the 800m.

I was more disappointed in the excuses he made in his post race interview.

Definitely not a Flatt fanatic, but I appreciate his energy at least over Brazier's complete lack. Dude is a championship bust. Washed.