Should we all apologize to Bobby Kersee and Athing Mu? Mu 2nd in 1500 at USAs.

Athing Mu already said in an interview after the race that she is sticking with the 800.

The relevant quotes from Kersee, from:

ocregister.com

L.A. Grand Prix loses star power as Olympic champions McLaughlin-Levrone, Mu drop out

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Their coach Bob Kersee said setbacks that will keep them out of next week’s Los Angeles Grand Prix will not prevent them from challenging two of track’s oldest world records.

Link:www.ocregister.com/2023/05/18/mclaughl...

“I think the goal is she needs to be under 3:59 or better to really get the benefit out of the 1,500 and with her speed ability to get the ultimate transfer to the 800 in order to break that other 30-year-old (plus) record at 800 meters,”Kersee said.

“I just think when she has that, that anaerobic threshold and being able to hold over that and take the 800 out at a decent speed, that’s going to allow her to go under 1:53.”

“The 800/1500 or 400/800 has been done and I think Athing has that ability and I think if the schedule allows it, it would be nice to see for a woman to double the 8 and 15 at a very high level with the potential to gold medal in both,” Kersee said.

So I think the first bit is right, getting her to 3:59 shape to challenge the WR is a good idea.

The last bit about medalling in both is a bit of hyperbole as long as Faith Kipyegon exists, in my opinion.

Faith a 3:49 1500m runner has nothing to worry about and neither do a host of Ethiopian runners including the 17 year old who ran a 4:16 mile or probably even Laura Muir.

Tried to post in a different thread. Ended up here somehow.

Coe was juiced to the moon.

Mu? Yes.

Kersee? Not quite yet.

Remember Mu hasn't altered her training from her usual 800m stuff so far, so more improvements are most certainly coming. However, 3:49 is a whole different ballpark than 4:03.

The only way I see My winning the Olympic 1500m right now is if Kipyegon pulls a Genzebe Dibaba and vanishes off the face of the earth or only runs the 5000. However, last week we were all like "no way Mu does well" and 4:10 and 4:03 later look how dumb we looked. Mu is a generational talent and anything is possible for her.

At least post doping allegations in the right thread dude.

Very frustrating race to watch from a strategy point of view…

Imagine if Mu had actually run most of the race in the inside of lane 1 and didn’t “block” others by running on the outside line of lane1…she would have been much faster…during most of the race, it appeared that she was holding back which made it difficult for most to try and pass her…they kept getting caught up in a tight group…Cory never gave in and kept herself in the race by staying tight on the rail and Sinclaire and Nikki just waited and went wide into lane 2…

No worries though…the team will be Hiltz, McGee, and Johnson…Mu in the 800m

Of course they couldn’t - main reason being they never ran upon a track that was actually 400m in length.

Flojo is not his wife, idiot.

Strangely your comment got downvoted. Yet we all know Kersee coached more drug cheats than Salazar and Schumacher combined. Some people here are allergic to the truth.

She was at the meet. Did this happen this evening?

ok so jackie is still alive, good news.

But Coe had already won the English Schools National 3000m Championship over Ian Ray (subsequent Berlin Marathon winner)....

So the 4:37 miler who didn't even finish at Millrose last year has effectively carved 14 seconds off the equivalent of that time with this latest 1500 run. That easy. And that ridiculous. It is a mere formality then that she takes another 14 seconds off by next year. Bobby has obviously worked out how to do it.

So....12 seconds behind Faith?

Ya gotta have Faith!