Brother I will smack anybody on the board who tries to say Laros is dirty and Hocker is clean. Only one of these guys has a questionable jaw and randomly closed in 53 seconds in a 3:27 Olympic race. Nobody on this board can point to a slower race where he ran 53 seconds in the last lap. To my European brothers, please do not let my fellow Americans gaslight you.
"This is my second Diamond League of the season and second win. I choose my races precisely and it's nice that it turns out this way. I had some setbacks earlier this season and I know that I am not in my best possible shape yet," said Laros who also won the U20 race at the 2024 SPAR European Cross Country Championships.
When I read something like that, I wonder, "Is this kid going to DOMINATE the 1500 for the next decade?"
Unlikely, there has not been a dominant men's figure without PED since the days of ELG. Laros is not as concrete as ELG. Laros will follow in the footsteps of Jakob or be slightly worse in terms of durability. Jakob dominated the 1500m for 2 years and by early 2023 he was washed up at 22. Laros is 20 and by 2027, for all reasons far and sundry including those for directed energy platform attacks, he will be done. The sport is at the mercy of corruption in the highest echelons of American intelligence. The same story will apply for Cooper Lutkenhaus, that's also particularly one of the reasons why he turned pro so early is because he knows it's gonna burn bright and quick and he needs to take advantage for mere couple of years before he starts to fade. He will fade by 20, even younger than Laros would have had at 22. The next Cooper Lutkenhaus will turn pro at 14 and will and then fade at 18. It's gonna get younger and shorter span until.................I don't wanna know what happens next, it's just too evil for my mind.
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I myself could have posted this note that you did for I myself harbored same grievance thoughts and feeling towards the Hocker faux. Not sure why anybody would think Laros is dirty. For one Laros is whiter and purer in skin tone than Hocker and as you identified correctly Hocker's jaw line seems too feminine and makes supermodel Cindy Crawford's look ordinary. Laros will not be a doper ever. Men with long shoulder length hair have a long history of deviant, addictive, compulsive behavior in life.
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Right now if I had to put my money on who will finish ahead of the other at Worlds, I would put my money on Laros over Hocker.
Agree, Hocker is a nothingburger at this moment. 12.6 final 100m close in a 13:26 race vs 12.5 100m close in a 3:30:58 Brussels 1500m race, I'll go with the latter the more impressive feat.
When Laros moved with 150m to go, you could see the fragile Nuguse totally exposed by much turbulent air around him, there was just suddenly a 10m gaping hole between him and Laros in a matter of seconds and we all thought Nuguse was supposed to be the former indoor mile Wr holder? And what of Phanuel Koech the same had happened to him too.
Laros has elegant mechanics which again makes Hocker look secondary. With Hocker's wild ill-disciplined arm carriage during sprint phase in the final 100m, only PEDs could have made him so fast with that style.
Laros is a truly great young runner. Fantastic range and coming into his own at 20 years old. Will be tough to beat.
That said, he is a long way from a lock to win. Not even a lock to medal (though I expect him in top 3). Too many really good guys out there now.
You weren't paying close enough attention to the 2 diamond league races he ran at less than 100%. He is way better than Hocker in his range of mechanical movement, elegant freestyle, much like the ELG of old. His feet strikes at the finish line looks exactly like those for ELG at the end of his Rome 1998 race, moving so fast at speed but yet appearing on camera to be as still as a huge boulder rock.(during ground phase)
The type of feet dorsiflexion pattern Laros demonstrated at Brussels seems to be coming of age in mirroring those of ELG in all his career, and, Jakob before 2022 before the COVID injection. I pay attention to all these details as I'm very well-informed about this sport. The way Laros is moving right now like a freight-train, Jakob was moving the same way at Tokyo 2021 and before.
The jab together with the directed energy platform combined to consume many of our athletes.
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There is a not so splendid tradition among too many on this forum consisting of speculations and accusations as soon as someone might beat an American runner.
More like when anyone defeats an East African. Laros blew the doors off Koech and it really has bothered all the usual suspects. Just like his rousing finish at the Prefontaine meet while running down Yared bothered the same crowd. The kid was a teen sensation and his improvement has continued.
As others have noted, none of these people are smart enough to ask themselves why they automatically react this way, why they lick the feet of any African, even if they’re running under the guidance of one of the known dirtiest coaches in the sport, Berardelli. Who taught them to think this way, who molded their thinking? 🥸 Who created this tradition?
Incredible brainwashing? You make guys like me look so innocent trying to brainwash the entire LRC crowd favorite to think that our athletes are victims of and subjected to directed energy platform attacks by evil gangstalkers from the NSA and CIA>>>
The answer to your question becomes evidently clear once you lift the veil of suspicion for both Koech and Laros and that both will be clean. Then it becomes a simple matter of Laros just being a better athlete than Koech due to training and natural gifts.
Most of the time when someone runs a great race or a PR, they'll say they had more in the tank. Sometimes, it ends up being their best ever.
Do you think Laros was "not at his best" when he won the Pre meet?
Believe me, Laros was in peak form and gave it his all that day.
Maybe, maybe not. Normally if somebody can kick 53 at the end of a 3:45 race you have to think he is firing on all cylinders. Sometimes athletes, especially the young and vulnerable ones, don't know how to express themselves under the spotlight. They talk rubbish.
Compare the skeptism of an obvious prodigy like Laros to the blind acceptance of Phanuel Koech - literally out of nowhere and running for a coach known to dope athletes - from the same people. They should ask themselves who has taught them to behave this way.
Certainly not me, I didn't teach nobody to behave egregiously. I believe both to be clean and this theory solves most of the psychotronic obfuscation people are thinking surrounding Laros and Koech