If Werro finishes 3rd or lower, Maloney clinches the final spot. If Werro is top-2, she clinches.
Most likely, both Maloney and Werro will be in the final, though. Maloney will be the 8 seed and Werro will be the National Wild Card (meet is in her home country of Switzerland).
looking pretty good for hunter. The chances of blanks or fisher winning have to be decent, then he gets to finally run a wc
I don’t think Fisher can make the final. If he won he would only have 8 points and only the top ten from the standings make the final. If Blanks finishes top 8 he’s probably in. If Blanks makes the championship and wins he would make the 5k team as well as the 10k team for Tokyo. The best chance for Hunter would be for Nico to run in the championship and win. Not sure if he’s going to run or not though but has 10 points as it stands and should be enough to get in the race.
looking pretty good for hunter. The chances of blanks or fisher winning have to be decent, then he gets to finally run a wc
I don’t think Fisher can make the final. If he won he would only have 8 points and only the top ten from the standings make the final. If Blanks finishes top 8 he’s probably in. If Blanks makes the championship and wins he would make the 5k team as well as the 10k team for Tokyo. The best chance for Hunter would be for Nico to run in the championship and win. Not sure if he’s going to run or not though but has 10 points as it stands and should be enough to get in the race.
Anna Hall doing the high jump. Makes sense for her because the technical events are high value in the heptathlon. If she can keep pace with Thiam in that event the totality should fall her way. Hall cleared 1.95 at Gotzis and 1.90 at trials
Thiam's also entered in Lausanne, so we'll get a sense of where she's at.
World #2 Duguma has now scratched the 800m. She is already qualified for the DL final so it doesn't matter. World #15 Anais Bourgoin was added.
This makes it interesting for Maloney. She basically had the 8th spot in the DL Final wrapped up when Moraa scratched and Maloney chose to do NACAC instead. Bourgoin is in the #9 spot, only 1 point less than Maloney. Unless they add another competitor, Bourgoin can finish dead last, earn 1 point to tie Maloney, and then take her final spot on the tiebreaker. Maloney may have just lost her spot in the DL final unless she races Sunday in Bermuda and then flies to Europe to race Lausanne on Wednesday.
looking pretty good for hunter. The chances of blanks or fisher winning have to be decent, then he gets to finally run a wc
Hunter does not have standard.
He would also have to win NACAC in order to get in with that.
Interestingly, Teare is also at NACAC (and finished 5th at trials). So if Teare wins NACAC and Fisher or Nico wins DL, then Teare gets to go to WC.
It looks like Teare and Hunter have something on the line at NACAC after all. Going there may not have been random, but thought out carefully.
Teare already has his 13:01 Tokyo Q so does not have to win NACAC. He's running this race, in part, to try to Hunter from winning and getting the 110 winning bonus points + time points which would, apparently, would elevate Hunter into the top-42 WA rankings, making him eligible for Tokyo.
In either case, Grant or Nico would have to win the Zurich 3000 DL final to unlock a 4th spot for either Drew or Cooper. And, unknown at this point if either of them will actually qualify for Zurich, although both stated post-USAs their desire to be there.
Note: if Graham advances to Zurich and somehow wins that race, then he is awarded the 4th American spot on the 5000 starting line in Tokyo.
World record might be on in 800. Only 9 racers and 2 are irrelevant in Tual and the Swiss athlete. Sieradzki and Wanyonyi combine well. Rarely do you get a field with only 7 guys who could all play nice-ish the first 200 without freaking out over positioning. With the Algerians out, none of the runners are too scrappy either.
He would also have to win NACAC in order to get in with that.
Interestingly, Teare is also at NACAC (and finished 5th at trials). So if Teare wins NACAC and Fisher or Nico wins DL, then Teare gets to go to WC.
It looks like Teare and Hunter have something on the line at NACAC after all. Going there may not have been random, but thought out carefully.
Teare already has his 13:01 Tokyo Q so does not have to win NACAC. He's running this race, in part, to try to Hunter from winning and getting the 110 winning bonus points + time points which would, apparently, would elevate Hunter into the top-42 WA rankings, making him eligible for Tokyo.
In either case, Grant or Nico would have to win the Zurich 3000 DL final to unlock a 4th spot for either Drew or Cooper. And, unknown at this point if either of them will actually qualify for Zurich, although both stated post-USAs their desire to be there.
Note: if Graham advances to Zurich and somehow wins that race, then he is awarded the 4th American spot on the 5000 starting line in Tokyo.
Correct. Assuming that Nico or Fisher wins DL If Teare (who already has standard) wins, then Hunter does not win (and does not get the special qualifying spot)
If Hunter wins (who does not have standard), then he also gets a qualifier and goes to WC because he was 4th at trials.
So the conclusion is that whoever wins NACAC will go to WC (if Fisher or Nico wins DL)
Remember, the 3rd seed at NACAC has a 13:38 PB. So this is a race between Hunter and Teare.
Teare already has his 13:01 Tokyo Q so does not have to win NACAC. He's running this race, in part, to try to Hunter from winning and getting the 110 winning bonus points + time points which would, apparently, would elevate Hunter into the top-42 WA rankings, making him eligible for Tokyo.
In either case, Grant or Nico would have to win the Zurich 3000 DL final to unlock a 4th spot for either Drew or Cooper. And, unknown at this point if either of them will actually qualify for Zurich, although both stated post-USAs their desire to be there.
Note: if Graham advances to Zurich and somehow wins that race, then he is awarded the 4th American spot on the 5000 starting line in Tokyo.
Correct. Assuming that Nico or Fisher wins DL If Teare (who already has standard) wins, then Hunter does not win (and does not get the special qualifying spot)
If Hunter wins (who does not have standard), then he also gets a qualifier and goes to WC because he was 4th at trials.
So the conclusion is that whoever wins NACAC will go to WC (if Fisher or Nico wins DL)
Remember, the 3rd seed at NACAC has a 13:38 PB. So this is a race between Hunter and Teare.
How can Fisher get to the Diamond League championship? if he wins he only has 8 points and there are only 10 spots for the final. I don’t see it happening. Also, still not confirmed that Nico is going to even run the final.
The interesting name for me there is Hoey - presumably he's going to run his 19th, 20th, 21st and 22nd races of the season in the next 2 weeks and somehow have enough gas in the tank to win the DL final and make the worlds.
I like Rinaldi and I like Hoey - I've defended him and made many a case towards those who question his legitimacy. But I really don't understand this volume of racing - especially if you want to win in Zurich and make the Worlds. Which full disclosure, maybe now he doesn't and he's just wanting to maybe run a PR and make some money then call the season quits. This is up there with some of the all-time huge volume seasons of guys like Bucher, Bungei etc.
World record might be on in 800. Only 9 racers and 2 are irrelevant in Tual and the Swiss athlete. Sieradzki and Wanyonyi combine well. Rarely do you get a field with only 7 guys who could all play nice-ish the first 200 without freaking out over positioning. With the Algerians out, none of the runners are too scrappy either.
Tough to say - though no Sedjati/Moula does help because Moula in particular seems to like blasting out in the opening 150m which forces guys to obviously best his pace or get stuck behind him when he cools off the second 200m.
Last year they had 8 plus the pacer and really 4 main guys - Arop, Wany, Hoppel and Tual. They were the front 4 at 200, 400, 600 and 800.
It's similar this year with I guess Hoey just plug and play for Tual who seems uh a little "different" post the Paris DL. As I think has been discussed to death on the 800m WR topic, the margins are just now so thin with respect to the pace distribution and how that affects the final performance that any 100m section not run optimally really hurts these guys - even Wanyonyi in the other "WR race" this season in Monaco where I suspect he pushed too quickly through 400 and 600 relative to his ideal splits.
The one thing going for this race is that there is nowhere near as much hype around it as with Monaco. Lausanne has always been like this because it's not the biggest meet even in Switzerland, but the conditions there are sneaky ideal with just enough altitude, the proximity to water and it's non metropolitan location. Last year that race just popped up out of nowhere and they came within 2 tenths of the mark.
I think I'd still err on the side of being surprised if it happened but it's definitely the last of the big chances this season with only the DL and World finals really left.
This amazing field has fallen apart over the past few days. Still a great field but not as strong as originally planned. The men's 800, on the other hand, hasn't lost anyone that I am tracking.
The W 3000SC features Doris Lemngole and Norah Jeruto up top, both of whom should contend for bronze in Tokyo next month. The Lausanne race likely will not feature the sort of Markezich/Lemngole rematch fans of the two ON athletes once anticipated, but seeing both race well would tide us over nicely.
Expect good things from Elise Thorner who has made a marked performance jump since her Gator days and, like Kaylee Mitchell, looks to sharpen up ahead of Worlds.
Also keep an eye on Alemnat Walle, the 19 yr old phenom who splashed onto the scene at last month's Pre Classic when she hung with Jennings and Bouzayani to finish in 9:06