Reekie wasted Keely's shot at gold, sitting on the inside rail the whole time, clearly never had a chance to be in the kick for a medal. If Keely had run the rail behind Mu like Reekie did, she would have had a clear path to the inside rail pass we knew would be there because Mu loves the outside of lane 1. Could have made it very close with Moraa.
lol at these Keely droolers. No one made Keely run on the outside. Reekie ran smart, Keely didn’t.
You are 100% correct, Keely just never seems to get the tactics quite right. She took off pretty well in the first 100m and then slowed down considerably, she should have kept pushing a bit to lock in the rail spot behind Mu. Also should have started surging down the backstretch instead of waiting until the curve.
Mu is obviously uncomfortable running remotely close to the rail. She ran maybe 6" from the lane 2 line most of the race and then moved into lane 2 on the finish, which allowed Hodgkinson to pass her.
I wonder if it would help if Kersee put cones all the way around the track about 6" inside the white line of lane 1 and then have Mu do her intervals inside those cones?
By the way, great race by Hodgkinson. She saw the opening in lane 1 and had the legs to make it work.
Surely Mu's first 200m was too aggressive. I've run that sort of time (40 years ago), but I'd have been walking after a 26 sec first 200m.
She would have done a lot better to let Moraa go and close up in the second 200m.
Mu also started pushing a bit early on the backstretch in the second lap.
Yes, this is all correct.
notwithstanding, Mu would still be better with her A&M coach. She should be running 1:54 this year. As badly as she paced today, she should have been able to muster 1:55.5. That’s her level of talent. Oh well.
The fact that they have to race for times to make the team is really stupid. They need a 5k trials and to save something for worlds. Physiologically they're all probably just bloody past their peak.
The fact that running a 13:11 can make you "world champion" is what's stupid. A big show of heats and "tactics" that happens nowhere else, and somehow people accept that as what the event is about.
As far as I'm concerned, the yearly world leader is the champ. Is that Kejelcha or Aregawi? The whole point of it is go 5000m as fast as possible
This might be the worst take on this entire thread. The whole point of the race is to cross the finish line first. Doesn't matter what you did on the circuit 2 months ago
Almost certain Athing and Brandon broke up. Looked like she was going through it emotionally this entire season. Barely seen her smile and this may be why. hope she doesn’t beat herself up too much about bronze
They used to be in photos together all the time and commenting on each other’s races on IG all the way up until USATF. sometime after that they stopped following each other on IG and both of them deleted all the photos of the two of them together. Interesting and sad timing. I hope Mu gets the hell out of LA, goes back to her college coach Milton Mallard and makes a fresh start.
Need Frerichs to get back to form next year. Don’t think Wayment and Gear are good enough even though i like both of them and Coburn is washed at this point
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Only four remain in the high jump: Yaroslava Mahuchikh from Ukraine (2019 Doha silver, 2021 Tokyo bronze, 2022 Eugene silver) Nicola Olyslagers (McDermott) from Australia "Come on!" (2021 Tokyo silver) Eleanor Patterson from Australia (2022 Eugene gold) Morgan Lake from Great Britain
Mahuchikh and Olyslagers are tied for first while Patterson is in 3rd on misses and Lake in 4th
If Mu just had been in a bit better shape everyone would have been saying it was good tactics. She made Moraa run a lot of extra meters, it just didn't matter today. Yes, she left the inside open at the end, but she was trying to push Moraa wide, and probably didn't really care about 2nd vs 3rd.
The fact that running a 13:11 can make you "world champion" is what's stupid. A big show of heats and "tactics" that happens nowhere else, and somehow people accept that as what the event is about.
As far as I'm concerned, the yearly world leader is the champ. Is that Kejelcha or Aregawi? The whole point of it is go 5000m as fast as possible
This might be the worst take on this entire thread. The whole point of the race is to cross the finish line first. Doesn't matter what you did on the circuit 2 months ago
What doesn't matter is who is the fastest 400m runner.
You go ahead and fool yourself about how far that race was
Lol cmon gimme a break. Keely never challenged. It was not a position issue. Moraa beat her in the only DL they raced in. Has Keely beat her since Eugene?
I think they are not that far from even but Moraa’s 50-low speed gives her the edge. If Keely gets a perfect ride, I think she challenges. Today her first 600 was far from that, though and despite getting the ideal last 100 inside run she didn’t have the extra gear.
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