And I don't want to hear how they'd run 3 rounds. Rudisha ran a WR at the end of 3 rounds.
Yes, and that's one of the reasons that 2012 800 WR is considered the greatest race of the 21st century. It's silly to use that as a point of comparison.
In a championship 800, I'll take the experienced racer who knows how to run a 2:00 in a final over the newbie who ran 1:58high in a time trial every single time. Edwards ran a smart race and deserves nothing but praise.
She was a VERY good college athlete, who lost several years fighting with Graves Disease. Maybe I'm the only one who wasn't surprised she made the team. She's run well this year after going through hell, and hasn't been afraid to take a shot in every race I've seen this year. Good for her.
As I Brit I wish we had a similar system in the UK. Top three in the trials providing you have the entry standard/world ranking, end of story. Our selectors overcomplicate the selection process with this “top eight potential” nonsense and won’t be sending athletes who have qualified. A US style system would force them to send athletes, they can’t wiggle their way out of it with a “top eight” excuse.
If you wanted a fast pace then Mu had to be there. Rose is a natural frontrunner but she tired during the semifinal and barely hung on. As soon as I saw that I knew darn well she would back off in the final. And once that pace slowed it opened up all the permutations.
The ridiculous aspect was Allie Wilson during the semifinal. She was a clear 4th. Not in an automatic qualifying position. But instead of charging to the line in hopes of a time qualifier Allie backed off and cruised the final 5 meters or so. She ended up missing the final small qualifier by something like .17
I have no idea how they can focus all year for that meet and make such nonsensical decisions once there
You used to post all the time on here that Steve Holman was a choker for racing fast times in meaningless Euro meets but not showing up when it mattered. Do you like to argue just to argue or has your opinion of meaningless Euro meets changed?
Are you new to this message board? If there is anything rojo does well, it is creating a controversy where there is none. That generates page view counts.
What are you guy saying? I'm being consistent. It blew my mind Holman couldn't make the teams back in the day just like it blew my mind here. I guess 3 of them were in the 1500 so it wasn't like that many sub-2 800 women didn't make it.
Rojo, are you saying this negatively or positively? That is,
"it seems wild she made the team...we should be sending someone else"
or
"it seems wild she made the team...great job performing when it counts"
?
I wasn't trying to be disrespectful to Edwards at all. Kudos to her to making the team.
Another way of phrasing what I was asking was, "How in the hell did all of the other women run so poorly?"
Looking at the 5 in the final behind Edwards: Ajee Wilson had that illness issue; Michaela Rose was likely tired after her NCAA season and taking it out hard in her semi; Sammy Watson hasn't been great in recent years and it was a real comeback just making the final; almost the same can be said for Charlene Lipsey; and Sage Hurta-Klecker has been plain inconsistent (cf. her last place 2.04 in the most recent DL). So it's not implausible when you consider all these factors.