Uh oh: Just 28% of WJR gold medalists in women's distance go on to any medal at senior level

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Brent Pismo wrote:

I still have an old VHS tape of the first World Junior meet in 1988 in Vancouver. The men's 1500 was a battle between Morceli and Cacho. There was also a Kenyan named Wilfred Kirochi who ran 3:33 the next year.

World Juniors gold medalists are definitely a better indicator of future success in that sport than the NCAA.

Sudbury - not Vancouver. Now if you really know any Canadiana - who wrote/sang "The old Hockey game", and where does Sudbury fit into it?

Ben L Wrong wrote:

Probably because many of them are not juniors?

This.

The "junior" Africans running at these champs are really just the B-list seniors.

That means there's a 72% chance of winning a senior medal if you don't win at juniors.

Tommy Runs to Place wrote:

no doubt. I don't know who should be more embarrassed, the author of the article or the "experts" at LetsRun who posted it here without realizing the inherent flaws.

You gotta understand that a lot of the LRC "experts" are stupid, jealous, wanna be's who jump at the chance to bring anyone down.

who cares cain sucks

runn wrote:

Tommy Runs to Place wrote:

no doubt. I don't know who should be more embarrassed, the author of the article or the "experts" at LetsRun who posted it here without realizing the inherent flaws.

You gotta understand that a lot of the LRC "experts" are stupid, jealous, wanna be's who jump at the chance to bring anyone down.

Yes, of course. I assume we are both talking about RoJo.

Tommy Runs to Place wrote:

runn wrote:

You gotta understand that a lot of the LRC "experts" are stupid, jealous, wanna be's who jump at the chance to bring anyone down.

Yes, of course. I assume we are both talking about RoJo.

Not me know- I'm talking about the people who continuously put successful runners down on this site. They're all anonymous so we don't know who they are.

Rojo's fine with me.

Actually, what you should have said is you are more likely to win a medal at the senior level is you don't get gold at a WJC.As for Mary Cain, come on...She has no chance at gold at any distance.

Stats Anyone? wrote:

Dumb article. What he should have said was that WJC gold medalists are more likely than any other WJC contestant, or those who didn't make it to the WJC, to get on the podium as a senior athlete as well.

Re: Cain, the rest of the world should be thinking, "Uh oh, she's more likely to capture gold in Rio and/or Tokyo than anyone else."