Dear, dear, I agree with you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Kejelcha is a hopeless thing, I don't know why he and Gebrhiwet are so bad this year!!!!!!!!!! All that injera not working out for them as much anymore ain't it?????????? The Ethiopia diet is naturally alkalinizing and blood purifying so I'm scratching my head why!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The athletes today are truly getting weaker, and weaker, and weaker and weaker. You have a 24 yr old Jakob getting the 2nd big layoff of his career in the same region of the leg, simply unbelievable!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I remembered how a 24 yr old Hicham El Kingdom was like an rocket zipping races week in and out 3:26s every week on bad shoes and bad tracks and zero drugs just WOWOWOWOWOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I will say it again. I was in va Beach and I think if they were in the same heat butler would have won.
I was there also. Butler only wins if she was in lane 5 and Whittaker in lane 6. As soon as I got there on the first day I saw the immense bias toward lane 5. There was absolutely no backdrop for the outside runner in lane 6. It was an outer rail with wide open spaces for spectators to peer through. That is already a disadvantage and the severe banking made it even worse. The runner in lane 6 always lost ground around the far turn.
Whittaker was in the first heat with the lane 5 advantage. Butler was second heat with lane 6 disadvantage. Easy pickings. The only thing I didn't expect was that time. Late during the second lap I told the people sitting next to me that Bol's record was in play.
Lane 5 vs lane 6 was also responsible for the upset in women's 200 meters.
Awesome run from Wiley. This is probably her ideal distance
She had an Instagram story the other day in which she called the 1000 her favorite distance.
Welteji was the most underrated runner in the world for a couple of years. Now that title belongs to Nelly Chepchirchir. There was a thread here on this 1000 race about a week ago. Nobody even mentioned Chepchirchir among the first 6 or 8 comments handicapping the race. Then I wrote that Chepchirchir was undefeated this year and deservedly the favorite
-Paulino seems to have missed her flight coming in, so a sluggish effort for her possibly a result
-Tebogo didn’t get his full warmup though said it wasn’t his excuse, wonder if the light show was the reason, but he thought his race wasn’t good enough
Flotrack putting the entire meet in replay on YouTube, is a sign that…subscriptions are below what they expected? Got it half off with a cross promotion with tracksmith, even so, I do feel like it’s not worth that price.
Another note is how outstanding the two young guys Miura and Serem really were. I think both guys were quite conservative as far as launching their kicks, and they both set massive PBs. I think both believe they can hit sub-8 soon. Bad news for Kenneth Rooks.
Also for Ruppert, understand he fell but it was so early you’d think he could finish with the guys in the 8:15 range possibly, but he just never got close to the pack. Have to wonder if everything’s gone well since the 8:01z
-Paulino seems to have missed her flight coming in, so a sluggish effort for her possibly a result
-Tebogo didn’t get his full warmup though said it wasn’t his excuse, wonder if the light show was the reason, but he thought his race wasn’t good enough