Hoey has had an insanely long season/year. Hoppel I'm not worried about as he has time to recoup. Wiley needs a new coach (for many reasons) after missing multiple outdoor teams now.
Everyone is acting like Fisher's strategy was dumb as can be, but he lost by an inch! He was this close to winning, and then no one would have bat an eye at his strategy. His strategy was enough to dispatch Mehary, Almgren, et al. Just not quite enough for Gressier (who saw that coming?).
I am not at all convinced that had he gone with 220 to go he would have won, there are just as many instances of someone going too early and then someone else who was more patient overtakes them at the end. It's a toss up.
The only criticism I can understand is that he somehow let in Gressier and Mehary on his inside which pushed him out pretty wide. But again, it's a difficult game to stay on the inside but also not get boxed in. Much easier said than done.
How can it not be dumb AF?
Make Gressier run the long way around him by blocking the inside, Gressier needed the inside to win.
The problem here is that Fisher got bumped outside by Mehary coming off the turn as Mehary was trying to move up. Not sure how much actual contact there was, but that was why Fisher ran wide rather than keeping his line to block Gressier. It didn't work for Mehary but created the gap for Gressier to move up on Fisher's inside.
The Americans mostly looked fried. I think having to peak for nationals and then again less than a month later took a lot out of them.
Maybe timings need a rethink. Do any of your guys automatically qualify from winning a previous championship? For example with us - Josh Kerr is automatically going so can delay his peak. You see Laura Muir doing the bare minimum to get second to get a place (she’s only just coming in to form).
Davis Cup (tennis), Ryder Cup (golf), Olympics and WC (all sports)
Individual entries:
Diamond League (track), Grand Slam (tennis), PGA Tour (gold)
Hope that helps.
How are explicitly team competitions where they don't crown individual team champions and a global participation/unity event (Olympics) in the same category as the World Championships? They're just not. It's an anachronistic thing that's all. That's why they're even adding byes because they know the system should find a way to ensure country of origin isn't a disadvantage to reaching the biggest individual championship.
I'm sorry that you're confused.
Nobody else seems to be.
The Olympics, Commonwealth Games, Pan-Am Games, WC, etc have ALWAYS limited the number of entries per country.
Most competitions do not.
This is the same in track as in other sports, in spite of your weird comparison of the US Opento the World Championships lol.
A bunch of goose eggs for the American hopefuls today. I think there's something to be said about Hoey and Nuguse both coming and winning a DL event after the USA defeats but before where it counted most in the Finals. Gotta keep that fire inside for when it counts, but also they needed to qualify for the Finals too. Maybe poor coaching decisions? Run a couple more earlier in the year and you don't fall into this pressure trap at the end
Hoey was already pretty much qualified, so that doesn't apply to him really. He also ran an extra 1500. I think Rinaldi's idea (and he can chime in) was to a) not have the DL final be his first race off the plane, but also Hoey trains so hard maybe racing is good for him in some ways. Sedjati who didn't race at all for a while looked really rusty today, whereas the guys racing more often looked crisper.
The Americans mostly looked fried. I think having to peak for nationals and then again less than a month later took a lot out of them.
Maybe timings need a rethink. Do any of your guys automatically qualify from winning a previous championship? For example with us - Josh Kerr is automatically going so can delay his peak. You see Laura Muir doing the bare minimum to get second to get a place (she’s only just coming in to form).
USA’s is consistently one of the most exciting meets in the world, because it is essentially all or nothing. The stakes are very high so all the races are exciting. I don’t want to ruin that so Josh Hoey can win the Diamond League.
The Olympics, Commonwealth Games, Pan-Am Games, WC, etc have ALWAYS limited the number of entries per country.
Most competitions do not.
This is the same in track as in other sports, in spite of your weird comparison of the US Opento the World Championships lol.
Nobody is confused. We all know the rules. Many of us think the rules are dumb. I am OK with limiting the entries to 3, but if you are having 2 byes available I'd make them available outside of the country limits. It's that simple. The announcers having to explain every time why one athlete can earn their way in and another can't isn't simple. If you want to make it so you can only use the DL bye if you win it for yourself, I'm also on board with. That again is simple. As it stands, the idea that Joe Kovacs couldn't win himself a spot and Cooper Teare could've gotten one from Grant Fisher winning is just nonsense.
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A bunch of goose eggs for the American hopefuls today. I think there's something to be said about Hoey and Nuguse both coming and winning a DL event after the USA defeats but before where it counted most in the Finals. Gotta keep that fire inside for when it counts, but also they needed to qualify for the Finals too. Maybe poor coaching decisions? Run a couple more earlier in the year and you don't fall into this pressure trap at the end
Totally agree. Winning the DL final is a longshot backup plan if you dont make the US team. But get those DL points early just in case. It also helps tremendously psychologically to book a fast race (even though its time trial-esque) time in the outdoor season. Kessler made this mistake too...only ran Pre where he finished 10th, never got in another fast DL race, and had to be questioning his wheels going into outdoor champs, with only 1 good indoor race tome to look back on (GST was a jogfest). Then he scrambled to put some DL points on the board to make the final and that blew up on him.