I rewatched the last few laps. Fisher lost it with 450m to go. With 500m to go he is right behind Cheptegei as Chep is moving to go to the front. But instead of following Chep past Barega, Grant ducks back in to the rail and allows Kiplimo to come around from behind. He should have followed Chep to the front instead of ducking back in to the rail with 450m to go.
Cheptegei, man, what racer. A worthy continuation of the Hailie G, Bekele, Farah lineage. He even won like Farah today, controlling from the front with 2k to go. I hope he can keep his form and fitness until Paris to get that Olympic 10k gold.
And Kiplimo is a total baller. One track race all year, a 3k, and he goes out to Eugene, runs in support of Cheptegei and still takes a medal.
Fisher ran really well. 4th is a good result for him. Tactically, he's still naïve. He got caught in the pack way too often and didn't react when the Ethiopian, Kenyan, and Ugandan runners made moves on the outside earlier in the race. That's just lack of experience. Once he gets some Diamond League's under his belt, he'll have more of a chance. The big positive for him is he didn't get worn down by the back-and-forth pace, a frequent weakness of US distance runners. He stuck well with the surges.
Track Town USA embarrassing the world of athletics with empty seats. Where are you all? Watching ‘My 600lb life’ and pretending ‘Pre’s trail’ means anything other than to deluded pretentious geeks.
Track Town USA embarrassing the world of athletics with empty seats. Where are you all? Watching ‘My 600lb life’ and pretending ‘Pre’s trail’ means anything other than to deluded pretentious geeks.
I wanted to go but it’s just cost prohibitive especially from the east coast. Tickets too expensive, hotels too hard to find on top of travel — not everyone has $5000+ to throw around for a nice trip. Might actually be cheaper to just go to Hungary next year. Not sure.
I rewatched the last few laps. Fisher lost it with 450m to go. With 500m to go he is right behind Cheptegei as Chep is moving to go to the front. But instead of following Chep past Barega, Grant ducks back in to the rail and allows Kiplimo to come around from behind. He should have followed Chep to the front instead of ducking back in to the rail with 450m to go.
The absolute best at the minute. The BBC sticks with "big names" but Hannah is better than all of them, on every event - she does field events every bit as well as she covers distance events. Time to give Steve Cram a few days off her and there and give England more time
Tactically, he's still naïve. He got caught in the pack way too often and didn't react when the Ethiopian, Kenyan, and Ugandan runners made moves on the outside earlier in the race. That's just lack of experience. Once he gets some Diamond League's under his belt, he'll have more of a chance. The big positive for him is he didn't get worn down by the back-and-forth pace, a frequent weakness of US distance runners. He stuck well with the surges.
Thank you! It's nice to see someone criticize Fisher without calling him lazy coward who threw away a medal for no good reason.
The absolute best at the minute. The BBC sticks with "big names" but Hannah is better than all of them, on every event - she does field events every bit as well as she covers distance events. Time to give Steve Cram a few days off her and there and give England more time
Her and Rob have been great. I was worried with Devers the first night but she was noticeably better last night though I’d rather Hannah and numerous others when it’s not sprints.
To the person who gave the Kenyan perspective…if they really are ripping them that’s crazy. Mburu getting silver with a fall and near-fall is a huge surprise. The other 2 were out of their league but did everything to be there. A great what-if is if Kandie had been in the race. If the two Ugandans race the Commonwealth Games that would be incredible.
You have the bad take here. Nobody is sh*thing on Fisher.
Sorry, but I have to disagree. If calling Fisher a lazy coward who didn't give his all is not sh*tting on him, I don't know what is.
As for his tactics, I'll wait until I've heard from GF before I opine on them.
He did not give his all, by definition.
“lazy coward” is of course a subjective judgment. At the end of the day he did pretty much what everyone else in the pack did. Its easy to fall into that trap. The leaders decided to be slow and too many fell in line.
I think calling any one runner lazy or cowardly is perhaps harsh. Calling the field as a collective whole that, or calling it a lazy or cowardly paced race, is perhaps a fair criticism.
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Tactically, he's still naïve. He got caught in the pack way too often and didn't react when the Ethiopian, Kenyan, and Ugandan runners made moves on the outside earlier in the race. That's just lack of experience. Once he gets some Diamond League's under his belt, he'll have more of a chance. The big positive for him is he didn't get worn down by the back-and-forth pace, a frequent weakness of US distance runners. He stuck well with the surges.
Thank you! It's nice to see someone criticize Fisher without calling him lazy coward who threw away a medal for no good reason.
If he'd say off the pack and kicked from 10th to 6th, I'd say he threw away an opportunity. But he hung with the leaders all the way. He could do some things better tactically but, in my view, if he runs all of his 10k races like that, he'll get on the podium at some point. He's a contender, not for gold, but certainly a medal