Happened to Dorian back in the day. lost the DMR to Rupp and then came back and won the 3k.
People forget he ran 3:35 as a 21y/o, way ahead of it's time, and went to the WC that summer and made the semi-finals. He wasn't quite Centro at that point, but he was a baller that season. Too bad he never bounced back to improve on it.
I think a lot of people will be surprised when he gets a chance to outkick Hocker. And Im saying this as someone who thought Hocker had a chance to win the Olympics if he was still there with 200m to go. Just look at the number of times Strand put his foot down during the last 100m. He almost fell over because he was going so fast.
Weird this was downvoted. I literally didn't say anything wrong and the thread was about americans. When is the last time Yared was outkicked by a college guy? Not to jinx him lol. I'd honestly say kessler would outkick him too. There is still another level for strand to get to.
Strand has shown an awesome kick off of a slow race with a fast final 400, and very fast final 200.
Interesting to compare his NCAA result to Kerr and Jakob's European Championship 3000s over the past 2 years. Also have to wonder what Jakob's final 200 looks like if he runs similarly slow over the final laps. Perhaps he's run a similar race to those two at another time. Maybe he's more of a mid 25 vs low 25 those guys ran? I also wouldn't be surprised if he popped a low 25 as they did.
Sky seems to be the limit right now though.
Right now the difference between Strand's world vs the world of Jakob and Kerr
Strand's final 5 laps at NCAAs:
31.3, 30.1, 29.7, 28.6, 25.3 2:25.25 for final 1000
Strand has shown an awesome kick off of a slow race with a fast final 400, and very fast final 200.
Interesting to compare his NCAA result to Kerr and Jakob's European Championship 3000s over the past 2 years. Also have to wonder what Jakob's final 200 looks like if he runs similarly slow over the final laps. Perhaps he's run a similar race to those two at another time. Maybe he's more of a mid 25 vs low 25 those guys ran? I also wouldn't be surprised if he popped a low 25 as they did.
Sky seems to be the limit right now though.
Right now the difference between Strand's world vs the world of Jakob and Kerr
Strand's final 5 laps at NCAAs:
31.3, 30.1, 29.7, 28.6, 25.3 2:25.25 for final 1000
Jakob's final 5 laps at Euros:
27.9, 27.9, 27.4, 27.6, 26.2. 2:19.0 final 1000
Kerr's final 5 laps at 2024 Euros:
31.7, 30.6, 29.6, 27.4, 25.1. 2:24.5 final 1000
Should have stated winning times in those races:
Strand: 31.3/30.1/29.7/28.6/25.3 2:25.25 final 1000 7:52.03
Jakob: 27.9/27.9/27.4/27.6/26.2 2:19.0 final 1000 7:48.37
Josh: 31.7/30.6/29.6/27.4/25.1 2:24.5 final 1000 7:42.98
Jakob's race was a completely different animal from those 2. Kerr and Strand very similar, but Kerr's obviously superior due to 9 seconds faster finishing time, 1 second faster final 400, and .2 faster over final 200.
Oh, and an obvious error I made was that Kerr's race was at world, not Euro.
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I think a lot of people will be surprised when he gets a chance to outkick Hocker. And Im saying this as someone who thought Hocker had a chance to win the Olympics if he was still there with 200m to go. Just look at the number of times Strand put his foot down during the last 100m. He almost fell over because he was going so fast.
Lets not get ahead of ourselves here. Let me see him run 3:28 3:29 and have the kick at the end first before we talk of him beating the Olympic champ
It’s crazy because he has beaten Hocker (and Nuguse) now