Crikey Ollie looked like a deer in the headlights out there his form was also atrocious and had absolute 0 kick wonder what Ritzenhein doing to these guys Nuguse wasn’t much better
Agree, 3:35-3:40 is so darn slow, my guy Josh Kerr hardly breathed while Oliver Hoare was already eliminated???????????? Shocking shocking shocking!!!!!!!
Jakob was another shocker, he didn't have his usual 51 second lap from Budapest semi-finals last year in which he sprinted from last to first in 250m in 3:34 finishing time. Today he only ran like what???? 3:36 and couldn't get the win in his heat and only sprinted a 54 second lap????? Jakob is so weak?????????????????
And Jakob had too much ground contact time compared to Josh KERR who was literally in the air 90 percent of the time, so it seems. Jakob couldn't lift himself off the ground nor proper himself forward as well as KERR!!!
Funny thing is that absolutely no one was eliminated from the men's 1500 meters today.
It gets hard in the repechage though. They need to get top 3 out of 13 or 14 runners to make the semi. The person in the repechage thread suggesting that a good strategy would be to purposely tank the first round to go to the repechage wasn't thinking it through.
I love Stewy as much as the next guy but I do not need to see him in another major champs 1500m. It's the same race every single time and it does not work against guys with any sort of kick. Happy to see him doing miles/1500 on the DL circuit but we've seen enough Stewy in 1500m majors. Let the next guy have a crack and please move up
Kinda glad he won't be making the final so he can't act as defacto pacer.
After sleeping on it, I think Spencer will probably make it through the losers round. Ollie looks really off and unless Stewy front-runs a 3:33 or lower I don't see it happening.
Awful tactics, all looked completely cooked. All 3 of them should get a lot of heat for this terrible running seeing as Cam Myers didn't go despite qualifying.
Cam Myers lost basically all races vs all 3 of them whole year and was average at all B level European meets he competed in, no reason to believe he would have done better.
Cam Myers lost basically all races vs all 3 of them whole year and was average at all B level European meets he competed in, no reason to believe he would have done better.
Yeah, he didn’t “qualify” OP.
He absolutely did. He ran the qualifying time. He qualified, but wasn't selected. Do your research buddy
When a commentator says of McSweyn that he should move up to the marathon and you're a 1500 runner it's probably not good. All the Aussies looked slow and could not adapt tactically to the situation. Myers would've been a better inclusion than any of the 3 selected based on potential alone (Ovett was selected as a very young man in 1976). Fine runs from Habz, Mills and Doyle.
No big worry ... they are all running for a single medal.
Cameron Myer will have compete more fresh talents in U20 WC like the young Moroccan Osama ER-RADOUANI (probably one of Top5 U20 World Cross Country next year).
Yes. AA needs to have some common sense. Trials for track and field much closer to the event. Somewhere warmer (Brisbane???) Aligning with Northern Hemisphere or games schedule. 1 2 3 with qualifier in. Marathon trial at Gold Coast (or venue which allows fair recovery time). Endurance athletes would need to pass a fitness test before going to the games. Spend the taxpayer monery wisely.
Stewy should have stuck to the 5k and Myers selected for 1500, he couldn't have done any worse than the three selected and the experience would have been invaluable to an up and coming potential world beater.
Not necessarily knocking the boys for their performance, Stewy's no longer a competitive 1500 runner, Ollie's having a bad patch for whatever reason and Adam probably did the best he was going to do in that kind of race and with that quality of competition.
Funny thing is that absolutely no one was eliminated from the men's 1500 meters today.
It gets hard in the repechage though. They need to get top 3 out of 13 or 14 runners to make the semi. The person in the repechage thread suggesting that a good strategy would be to purposely tank the first round to go to the repechage wasn't thinking it through.
Ingebrigtsen and probably Cheruiyot or Kerr could have pulled it off. Not McSweyn or Hoare.
She'll make the final, but then get eaten up by the WR holder, Ethiopians, Ugandans, etc, etc, take your pick who and how many.
PS - Hope I'm not being racist in any way, don't want to upset the USA audience as race seems to permeate their lives and obsess them in every way, especially here on LR.
In hindsight, no reason for Meyers not to be selected.
McSweyn is a solid 5K runner and probably could be a decent 10K runner, but not a world-class 1500 runner.
Spencer is great when in form, but I think he was in poor form throughout most of this year, and that continued in Paris
For Hoare, I think OAC just messed up the taper. Romo looked terrible, Goose got through but was pretty bad by his standards, Hoare looked incredibly fatigued.
Obviously Ritz and Hoare cooking up an absolute stinker wasn't necessarily predictable, but really no clear reason to select either Spencer or McSweyn ahead of Meyers at this point.
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