Ordonez OUT in the heats! Official Day 1 2023 Euro Indoors Discussion Thread

Oh boy Messlek looks like he's going to take advantage of Amos and Coscoran's mistakes

Bartelsmeyer out

As is Coscoran. Two guys in 3:33 1500/3:50 mile shape. Thats whats great about the 1500/mile.

And now he’s out

A lot of unexpected exits today!

Good on the runners in heat 3 though. So often the last heat knows what time they need to get in and then end up going out too slow.

Yes, Meslek, Gourley and McCann all took turns

Hey, Grant!

Klein has the tactical advantage and a much better finish; I don't think Can is in shape to make the race fast, so Koko has to do it alone and while she ran 8:34/35 in the last weeks I am not sure she has more to offer and this might not be enough to get rid of Klein. One of the Brits or Batocletti for the remaining medal.

Klein had made the 1500m final in London 2017 with luck and won the world university games (5000m vs. Judd and a Canadian) and there were great expectations but rather mixed results in the following years, i.e. good times in the season but fails at Euros 2018, Worlds 2019, Tokyo 2021. But she had a second breakthrough last year with 5th at Euros in the 1500m and 14:51 in the 5k, and now the strong 3000m

Both announcers are awful. They’d do well to use AI instead of the old male fool trying to be insightful and the clueless woman filling the air with nonsense.

Shocking to not see him go through after looking so good the last few weeks.

You mean Hannah England World 1500m silver medallist?

That’s Hanner to you, lad.

It was odd that he lost a few meters on the penultimate lap when the pace hadn’t really heated up yet. Then he looked like he was going to find a big move to get up to qualifying position, and he did have the 2nd fastest last lap in the race while running wide, but he’d left himself too much work, especially indoors. Just goes to show you don’t fool around tactically against a bunch of other 3:32-3:35 runners. It seems so obvious that in a slow indoor 1500 heat you want to get to a qualifying position early and defend your position at all costs, even if it means (oh, the horror!) doing some leading.

Feels like with half as much straightaway to work with you need to dial up your aggressiveness in the last 600 2x. It's not outdoors where everyone can make their move at 300 to go or 150 to go and some room will open up.