Josh Hoey 1:42.01!

I don't know, but I appreciate his use of the term in this case. A perfect trip is arguably more important in the 800 than in any other race. It is the shortest frequently-competed race not contested in lanes, often decided by tenths and even hundredths of seconds, with little time to make up for trips, clips, breaking stride, etc., along the way.

From the looks of some of them,probably cocktails of both.

Current 800m era is a joke, can't wait for the busts to come right after 2028 olympics

Hoey ran a great 1st 200m, but then ALMOST CAME TO A DEAD STOP, deferring to others collapsing down to lane 1!

He then measurably cranked it back up, and you can really see from 500m out to the finish that this guy’s stride and movement is something special! On the last turn, he made up some ground on Wayonyi!

Watch that replay, and compare the flying Hoey versus Hoppel on the final backstretch! It is the proverbial, “no contest”!

house of cards

I’m thinking this guy needs a cool nickname for that amazing movement, with the long stride and rhythmically flailing arms: “the pterodactyl”.

There was another 2-3 10ths there tonight. He had to be overly aggressive in the first 200 just to get that position and probably had the worst of it as about 170 in he accelerated, got checked and accelerated again. Makes a big difference in a 1.42.0 level performance.

Great night for the Fast 8 TC - Peter Bol with a huge, but not entirely unexpected, PR there way under 1.43

But he didn't... he's basically Nick Symmonds at this point.

Not sure if people know that track announcer Tom Hammond is famous for his horse racing announcing... oh well... or could be a groan at a Dad joke.

When you say it out loud, even at 1:42, it sounds improbable if not downright suspicious. But I'll assume it is above board until evidence shows otherwise.

I remember about a year ago when 1:42.anything immediately made you a contender for olympic/world gold. People have been desensitized to 1:42 so quickly that it doesn’t even seem like a crazy fast time to run anymore. When Brazier ran his AR, everyone was like “Holy crap, this may be the most talented 800m guy the world has seen in years” and now a 1:42.mid might not qualify for the final this year. It’s suspicious but in a weird way it’s keeping the sport extremely interesting. I don’t think we are far from sub 1:40 let alone a world record if this worldwide improvement curve keeps up.

Yeah, how on earth is that "poetic"?

It's either suspicious as the other poster said, or just plain shocking/incredible.

If anyone a little more "tan" did it, you would unequivocally scream doper.

He may very well be clean. I will give him the benefit of the doubt. But if daddy will buy you a track, and pay coaches to live at your house, what else might he buy you?

Realistically if you are going to be injecting EPO, why wouldn’t you also do some anabolics? Why wouldn’t you take something that helps you train like a maniac and recover?

Don't be an idiot, not every thread needs to be about doping alright!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Armstrong my darling is a good influence on LRC but even he may sometimes not possess the knowledge of physics and biology to make a differential diagnosis here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That's where my skillsets are most useful on LRC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Just proves once again that no American can break 1:42. It's a hard limit.

The next AR will be 1:42.01, then eventually 1:42.00 and done.