Typical American runner strategy, totally whipped by east africans to the point where they don't even try to beat them. running for top 10 instead of running to medal. Same as Fisher yesterday. Molly S showed last year what you need to do to have a chance at hardware - and it doesn't involve sitting back 400m from the lead group and "running your pace"
Mostly agree with you. I mean no need to kill your whole race by hanging at the start, but with the way the pack slowed after several k's I started wondering if D'Amata had stayed on a bit longer would she have been in the lead pack most of the way? Or if she hadn't faded back would have not backed off the pace.
Meb basically got his Olympic silver by just running steady and picking off runners.
Meb was never more than ~45 seconds back from the leader
Typical American runner strategy, totally whipped by east africans to the point where they don't even try to beat them. running for top 10 instead of running to medal. Same as Fisher yesterday. Molly S showed last year what you need to do to have a chance at hardware - and it doesn't involve sitting back 400m from the lead group and "running your pace"
So in you last major marathon you went out with the leaders, did you?
I’m a fan of D’Amato, but she wasn’t prepared for this and thus, I had low expectations for her. I don’t think she was really doing marathon training before she found out she was going to run the WC so she probably doesn’t have the top tier strength right now.
I’m a fan of D’Amato, but she wasn’t prepared for this and thus, I had low expectations for her. I don’t think she was really doing marathon training before she found out she was going to run the WC so she probably doesn’t have the top tier strength right now.
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