Official 2017 Prefontaine Classic discussion thread - Is this the best Pre meet ever?

jhfgi04 wrote:

Is there any kind of live results page available? For all other Diamond League meets IAAF pages have been good, but for some reason for this meet the results are anything but live.

Barefootie wrote:

jhfgi04 wrote:

Is there any kind of live results page available? For all other Diamond League meets IAAF pages have been good, but for some reason for this meet the results are anything but live.

http://flashresults.com/2017_Meets/Outdoor/05-26_PrefontaineClassic/

Thank you. I wonder why they don't use the same system as in all other Diamond League meets.

Women's 100

Moralake Akinosun, who was an agonizing fourth in the Olympic Trials last year for the US, was running faster than anyone and got the narrow win in a new personal best of 10.94 (her pb of 10.95 got her 4th at the Trials) as Murielle Ahoure was 2nd in 10.96 and Michelle-Lee Ahye third in 10.97.

Quick Take: Coming into the race, only three women had broken 11 this year and three did it this year. But Elaine Thompson (10.78) is miles ahead of everyone else in the world right now

NOP Skeptic wrote:

After how easy Farah made that look, you're crazy if you don't think he's in at least 12:45 shape. He was just tuanting Kijelcha up until 100m to go.

Farah has been in somewhere around that shape, give or take, for the last 6 years. The people that throw out 12:50 or 12:55 shape for Farah I honestly don't know where they are coming from.

Main reason is that Farah has consistently (21-1? 23-1?) won 5000m races since his breakout in 2011. Every runner has bad days, and on those bad days you're usually 10-20 seconds worse than at your best. A Farah in 12:50 shape on a bad day would be just hanging on at 13:00 5000m pace, and would certainly have nothing left to kick with.

If you're best on that day is 13:00, and the race is near that pace, you don't close in 53 seconds. You stagger home in 60+, which probably hasn't won a top level 5000m race in decades.

LetsRun.com wrote:

Women's 100h

25-year old Jasmin Stowers got the win in a seasonal best of 12.59 as she was overcome to catch early leader Christina Manning Believe it or not, 12.56 is #3 in the world this year as world record holder Bri Rollins hasn’t been competing much due to injury (she leads the world at 12.56 from Drake).

Damn it. How dense are you? Rollins isn't competing because the IAAF suspended her. Remember that? Jesus Christ.

Scorpion_runner wrote:

Mo is the master at tactical running. He is just mentally on a whole different level. Only EL G, Bekele, Kipchoge and Haile would beat him at 5,000 and 10,000 meters. These runners just don't have the speed or mental ability to deal with him.

They let him run his race all the time....You gotta get out in front of him and make him work. I have yet to see anyone do that yet

Master L-MO!

BTW, NBC sucks...like really sucks. The should just let the english do it like they do with soccer.

Nobody is willing to cooperate and throw away their own race for "team tactics" to do that.

Individual, nobody is strong enough to do that. You probably need to be 10-15s better than a guy to just run away from him. No way in hell is anybody out there in 12:30-12:35 shape.

Without the rise of another KB, or some serious coordinated team tactics I don't really think you can beat Mo in 5k until he starts to decline...or if he is coming off the flu.

~1:57 halfway

Announcers think it's slow? 1:53-1:54 would be blazing for this field

3:58 for the 16 year old

JAKOB did it

Looked like Principe and the Ingebrigsten kid broke 4 unless I'm looking at the wrong guy

1 Thiago DO ROSARIO ANDRE Brazil 3:51.99

2 Chris O'HARE Great Britain 3:53.34

3 Henrik INGEBRIGTSEN Norway 3:53.79

4 Jakub HOLUSA Czech Republic 3:53.97

5 Faoud EL KAAM Morocco 3:54.39

6 Luke MATHEWS Australia 3:54.53

7 Andrew WHEATING USA 3:55.23

8 Lopez LOMONG USA 3:55.67

9 Charles PHILIBERT-THIBOUTOT Canada 3:55.83

10 Cristian SORATOS USA 3:56.68

11 Jakob INGEBRIGTSEN Norway 3:58.07

12 Matthew RAMSDEN Australia 3:59.80

13 David PRINCIPE USA 4:00.73

14 John GREGOREK USA 4:03.27

Patrick CASEY USA DNF

Harun ABDA USA DNF

Renato Canova wrote:

You have reason, Celliphine is not 18. She is still 17.....

Why before writing bullshits, before you don't try to know something REAL ?

Did you see Celliphine personally ? If you see her, you suppose to have in front a girl not older than 15.

Another idiot in LR.

😂 Coach, I love seeing you put these haters on check. They surely deserve it and it's one of my favourite parts of reading these threads. But 'Hai ragione', literally translated, does not have the same meaning in English. Just say 'you are right' or 'you are correct'.

But yes, Celliphine Chespol is a once-in-a-generation talent. Amazing what she's achieving at such a young age. Ruth Jebet's record might not last the year.

3:58 for jakob, he is now the youngest to have broken 4 in the mile

principe just missed 4 again

In women's high jump Lasitskene (Kuchina) has cleared 2.03.

Kipchoge ad is great.

I hope the br*jos will understand one day what that means.

Haters.

Footjob wrote:

LetsRun.com wrote:

Women's 100h

25-year old Jasmin Stowers got the win in a seasonal best of 12.59 as she was overcome to catch early leader Christina Manning Believe it or not, 12.56 is #3 in the world this year as world record holder Bri Rollins hasn’t been competing much due to injury (she leads the world at 12.56 from Drake).

Damn it. How dense are you? Rollins isn't competing because the IAAF suspended her. Remember that? Jesus Christ.

You're right that she was suspended, but it was by USADA, not IAAF.

And that's not just a technical distinction because the IAAF could still take action if they didn't think the one-year sanction was severe enough.

I haven't heard too much about Thiago Andre. He seems in good shape. Only 21yo as well, and I'm pretty sure Brazil has good birth records.