Get 5th behind two ethiopians and two ugandans? Yeah pretty good
Get 5th behind two ethiopians and two ugandans? Yeah pretty good
Kissa and the Ugandans did what they could to 'weaken' Baraga, but even tho they did get him to bite a little, it wasn't enough.
I am sure part of him will wonder what he could have done to snag a medal, but I truly think he ran the best race he could today. Ranked 13th in terms of time in the World, finished 5th.
Terrific race from Fisher.
Separately this Peacock studio team is pure trash.
For all the talk of Cheptegei having a bad year, it was more of a tactical/positioning mistake in the end. Cheptegei was closing but ran out of space and had to go around Kiplimo and Aregawi. Not sure what he was thinking. Needed to take a page from Mo Farah's book and not let anyone take the lead after 800 to go and he might've been able to hold off Barega.
Raysism wrote:
Grant Fisher running about as good of a race as I can remember from an American in the last 20 years or so. That was fun.
Huh? Did Rupp’s gold medal disappear?
1 19 1861
ETH
BAREGA Selemon
27:43.22
2 6 3711
UGA
CHEPTEGEI Joshua
27:43.63 SB
3 22 3712
UGA
KIPLIMO Jacob
27:43.88
4 9 1860
ETH
AREGAWI Berihu
27:46.16
5 5 3925
USA
FISHER Grant
27:46.39
6 7 1418
CAN
AHMED Mohammed
27:47.76 SB
7 12 2781
KEN
KWEMOI Rodgers
27:50.06
8 15 1867
ETH
KEJELCHA Yomif
27:52.03
9 25 2778
KEN
KIPRUTO Rhonex
27:52.78
10 16 1939
FRA
AMDOUNI Morhad
27:53.58 NR
11 17 2416
ITA
CRIPPA Yemaneberhan
27:54.05 SB
12 2 1748
ERI
KIFLE Aron
28:04.06
13 13 1804
ESP
MAYO Carlos
28:04.71
14 21 2065
GBR
SCOTT Marc
28:09.23
15 20 3942
USA
KINCAID William
28:11.01
16 3 3943
USA
KLECKER Joe
28:14.18
17 18 2684
JPN
AIZAWA Akira
28:18.37 SB
18 4 1198
BEL
KIMELI Isaac
28:31.91
19 24 1099
AUS
TIERNAN Patrick
28:35.06 SB
20 14 2782
KEN
LANGAT Weldon
28:41.42
21 23 3525
SUI
WANDERS Julien
28:55.29 SB
22 1 2695
JPN
ITO Tatsuhiko
29:01.31
23 8 3595
THA
TUNTIVATE Kieran
29:01.92
11 2035
GBR
ATKIN Sam
DNF
10 3714
UGA
KISSA Stephen
DNF
Kiplimo cut in a bit on Cheptegei and made him chop his step a bit right as he was getting ready to go on the first turn of the last lap
Also, Cheptegei shows that many (including me) underrated him, he was not far off. Kiplimo was badly positioned with 800 to go.
4L wrote:
Raysism wrote:
Grant Fisher running about as good of a race as I can remember from an American in the last 20 years or so. That was fun.
Huh? Did Rupp’s gold medal disappear?
^silver I mean 😅
Raysism wrote:
Grant Fisher running about as good of a race as I can remember from an American in the last 20 years or so. That was fun.
Reminded me of Todd Williams - another Michigander - in the early 90s. Just with a little better final 600.
old wolf wrote:
Is that a pr for Fisher?
No. He's run 27:11.29
Cheptegai let himself get boxed. He looked to have the strength/speed at the end, he had the positioning earlier, but put himself in a bad position. He lost that race.
old wolf wrote:
Is that a pr for Fisher?
Not even close. Although heat-adjusted, it probably is close. In good conditions I bet Grant can challenge the AR.
Raysism wrote:
Grant Fisher running about as good of a race as I can remember from an American in the last 20 years or so. That was fun.
rupp 2012?
ErolsInternet wrote:
Terrific race from Fisher.
Separately this Peacock studio team is pure trash.
Yeah I'm really not sure who they are supposed to be appealing to? Then again, it is NBC coverage
Raysism wrote:
Grant Fisher running about as good of a race as I can remember from an American in the last 20 years or so. That was fun.
Rupp got silver in London.
How fast was the last lap?
2:25, last 1000m
Patrick Tiernan, completely dehydrated and delirious at finish, but good run by him, kudos. Wanders, 28:55.29.
Now that Barega has moved up to the 10,000 I am excited to see him and Cheptegei fight it out (and Kiplimo too) for the next 3-5 years at WCs and in Paris.