I instead look at her as the Jim Ryun of high school girls, with capacity to be a great 800m runner if she were to go all in on it. But her handlers may think the injury risk is not worth it.
Can you imagine there are posters still on here arguing she is only a distance runner, rather than a mid-distance runner? She historically owns the fastest mile time of any US high school girl.
She is the US high school GOAT for both mid-distance and distance. She is the Jim Ryun of US High School girls.
Of course she can run a faster 800m if she concentrates on it.
Her mind was wandering while she ran her 2:06? Based on her PRs at other distances, she’s not going to run much faster. You can’t see how hard she was working in that 800m?
She is not a middle distance runner, and as a professional runner, she’ll be closer to being 5/10.