Official 2026 Stockholm DL discussion thread - Teen phenoms past and present (Lutkenhaus, Myers, Willis) + Reaction show at 1pm

Gressier and especially Almgren were pretty awful.

How can you discuss a track meet when the Andromeda Galaxy is crashing into us? Didn't you see the other thread?!

But but…3:27 is not what it used to be!!!??

Anyone with a brain knew that Myers had a perfect race at the Australian Champs and today when he pushed too early it ended up breaking him.

Goose always has a very strong last 150m and especially last 30-50m. Almost without fail if he is in striking distance in the last few seconds he gets there or very close. Never ever falters late

Keely said it herself “if you’re going to beat me you’re going to have to run d@mn fast”.

1:53 is d@mn fast!

Good run by Myers.
Jakob's age record for 19-year olds, 3:28.68, survives. I'm happy (biased Norwegian here)

Myers 2nd 3:30:32 and 3rd Cheruiyot 3:30:67

Almgren " only " 3:36 : 81 🇸🇪

Andromeda always chickens out.

Well, Keely runs a personal best, and UK record, with her first 800m of the outdoor season. Wow. That race just made Femke's job a lot harder.

With that 3:30.67 mark, this is Cheruiyot's 10th straight year sub-3:31, stretching to 2017. If you extend it to sub-3:32 its 11 years with 2016. Approaching some longevity records now

Almgren never seems to have average races. Either it's great, like last year in Stockholm, or awful. And if it's going bad, he often DNFs.

Hodgkinson has now lost in 2 consecutive DL meetings.

Well, maybe shows you can't stay away from 1500 a long time with only 5000m/ 10000m and the road circus and still expect to run a very fast 1500..... 🤔🧙‍♂️

A certain Dutch athlete should go back to the hurdles or be completely written off in any discussion about the 800m world record

Myers went too early, and as a 19 year old, didn’t have the strength to hold off Nuguse. Doubt it’ll happen again.
to some extent, the same thing happened with Hodgkinson. Werro keyed off her for the win. KH isn't race fit yet, and Werro is. We’ll see what happens when it really matters.

Lutkenhouse is the most impressive phenom I’ve ever seen. 17 years old..

His position early was alot better than where he usually ends up. He's injury / illness prone but keeps coming back and is big meet performer so this was really good early season and progress for him.

If it happens it goes very fast and we haven't to bother anything lol

Take one day at a time and enjoy life and catch the day!