Korir will get in. He beat CJ at the Trials and is ranked high enough to go.
the system is fair. you have to get top 3 at the Trials and be qualified to make the team.
My question was- if Korir isn't ranked high enough to get in.
If that's the case could we pick CJ or Galen?
It's not THE system, it's OUR system that requires top 3 at the Trials.
We had one disastrous Olympics with one runner because of this system (despite having multiple runners with the A standard a B standard man and woman won and we had one on each team.
There is no reason we shouldn't have 3 runners when we can by the WA/Olympic standards.
It doesn't matter who is ranked high enough for your country, just that you have three runners with the standard or the ranking. Then your country can send whoever they want, as long as they've met the bare minimum standard of 2:13.
We actually have eleven guys with higher scores than the 80th ranked runner on the filtered list - Mantz, Young (Mantz and Young also have the auto standard), Albertson, Korir, Schrader, Fauble, Panning, Mekonen, Zienasellassie, Kibet, and Rupp. So take out any eight of those guys, and we'd still be sending a full team. And we could pick from any of dozens of Americans who've run under 2:13.
It is my understanding that all countries without any qualified athletes get one wild card athlete that they can enter into the Olympics. That athlete could be entered into the marathon. If enough countries do this, Korir could be knocked out. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
It is my understanding that all countries without any qualified athletes get one wild card athlete that they can enter into the Olympics. That athlete could be entered into the marathon. If enough countries do this, Korir could be knocked out. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
They wouldn't bump anyone from the ranking list. They will announce how many spots each country gets on May 5th, and they're not going to go back and rescind spots. If they allow wild card athletes in the marathon they would just increase the field size beyond 80.
There's no technical reason the marathon has to be limited to 80 athletes, it's just to keep the costs of hosting athletes down. They've probably budgeted for a certain number of wild card athletes, and it doesn't really matter what sport they do. The marathon would probably be one of the cheapest sports anyway.
According some news regarding, they are expected to be 2:06:30 (men's) and 2:23:30 (women's).
We have talked so much about Emile Cairess training with Renato Canova, but his 2:06:46 will not make it.
If they wanted half of the 80 person field this year to be in by standard, the 40th woman's time during this window is (limiting for 3 per country) 2:24:05 ran by Deshun Zhang from China. For men, the 40th time is 2:06:56 ran by Koen Naert from Belgium. So those new standards feel about right. Especially because I know a lot of people would probably run faster if they knew the standard was harder.
I don't think people are running slower than 2:06:56 because they don't have to run sub 2:06:56. If anything more people would shoot for sub 2:07 instead of 2:08 and they would blow up more, giving us fewer sub 2:08's.
Plus if you're a 2 08/2:09 non American-based runner and looking for 2:06:30 qualy standard, are you going to run in New York marathon? With Valencia Marathon 4 weeks later?