If everyone is doping and shoes are terrific and running surfaces keep getting faster why is the 400m hurdle and 100m meet records still standing after many years?
You may want to check the 400MH record. I would hardly call that many years since Warholm set it.
Yeah, running a mid 1:55 in those conditions is a pretty solid effort from Hodgkinson.
Unless we get some sort of complete anomaly of a performance where an athlete like Duguma, Hunter-Bell, or Moraa run a 1.5-2s second PB, or it's a very slow, tactical race, I honestly don't see how anyone challenges her in Tokyo.
I don't think anyone's run a sub 1:56 since Paris last year and Hodgkinson's just casually banging out 1:54s and 1:55s on her return.
2017 was the last time a Worlds was won in 1.55. she literally needs to run this to win cause 1.56 is a dangerous gamble
1:56 after two rounds is different from needing to run 1:55 in a one-off race. See the Olympics last year: won in 1:56, incredibly comfortable for Keely. I'm fairly confident Keely is a second faster than whatever anyone else can run under the same conditions
I get that Kimeli is a talent—I don’t think he’s come from nowhere—but 25.4 for the last 200m and 12.6 for the last 100m is bananas in those conditions. It was pouring rain. For reference, Hoey’s last 100m was 12.9 and that was decisive enough to run away from the Olympic 800m champion. That closing speed in those conditions is enough to raise my eyebrows even apart from the fact that he has been training in Kenya recently.
Catching up with the races, that was probably the best 5000 I've seen all year. So interesting to watch the race craft of the different athletes at an honest enough pace. Fisher was competitive and on commentary they said he was working out that morning so I expect he'll have more in the tank when it matters. Kimeli? He had a good day in difficult conditions. Unexpected I guess but he's been solid around the Euro circuit for a while.
It’s annoying that there are athletes trying to sneak into the world championships like this. There shouldn’t be second chances, they missed the US team.
It’s annoying that there are athletes trying to sneak into the world championships like this. There shouldn’t be second chances, they missed the US team.
Sneak?
None of the athletes are trying to get the wild card spots in a very secretive way.
People overexaggerate weather times. Some handle the conditions better than others. Seville still would have gone no faster than 9.7 mid to high in good conditions. I promise.
