So the announcer Wightman said the trials don't necessarily mean anything as the process is "fluid" .
The question I have is where in the hell is the 4 guys who broke 8:10 in steeple in 2019?
2 8:01.36 NR NU20R Lamecha Girma ETH 26 Nov 00 2 WC Doha 4 Oct
5 8:05.21 Getnet Wale ETH 16 Jul 00 178/60 4 WC Doha 4 Oct
9 8:06.48 Chala Beyo ETH 18 Jan 96 174/57 2 Mohammed VI Rabat 16 Jun
12 8:09.50 Takele Nigate ETH 2 Oct 99 8 Herc Monaco 12 Jul
None of those guys ran it?
852 watching the stream? Ho-hum 8:09 steeple?
And we wonder.
Girma no show and Wale in the 5000m made for a lackluster steeple.
rojo wrote:
So the announcer said the trials don't necessarily mean anything as the process is "fluid" .
The question I have is where in the hell is the 4 guys who broke 8:10 in steeple in 2019?
2 8:01.36 NR NU20R Lamecha Girma ETH 26 Nov 00 2 WC Doha 4 Oct
5 8:05.21 Getnet Wale ETH 16 Jul 00 178/60 4 WC Doha 4 Oct
9 8:06.48 Chala Beyo ETH 18 Jan 96 174/57 2 Mohammed VI Rabat 16 Jun
12 8:09.50 Takele Nigate ETH 2 Oct 99 8 Herc Monaco 12 Jul
None of those guys ran it?
Just a guess here, but one would think that Girma and Wale would be already on the team and the trial was for third?
What's the point of an OLYMPIC TRIALS race where transparent selection criteria is absent?
Winning the Trials, with the Olympic Q time still does not guarantee a place on the team?!??
What a complete farce the EAF is.
Complete joke.
Lotte Krause, Netherlands
Running in the Ethiopian Trials.
She is pacemaker probably
BuckleUp wrote:
rojo wrote:
So the announcer said the trials don't necessarily mean anything as the process is "fluid" .
The question I have is where in the hell is the 4 guys who broke 8:10 in steeple in 2019?
2 8:01.36 NR NU20R Lamecha Girma ETH 26 Nov 00 2 WC Doha 4 Oct
5 8:05.21 Getnet Wale ETH 16 Jul 00 178/60 4 WC Doha 4 Oct
9 8:06.48 Chala Beyo ETH 18 Jan 96 174/57 2 Mohammed VI Rabat 16 Jun
12 8:09.50 Takele Nigate ETH 2 Oct 99 8 Herc Monaco 12 Jul
None of those guys ran it?
Maybe, but Wale is running the 5000.
Didn't Takele just win it in 8:09?
Just a guess here, but one would think that Girma and Wale would be already on the team and the trial was for third?
That got messed up -- was supposed to say that Wale is running the 5000. He might be included on the 3000SC team if he doesn't make the 5000, who knows.
Takele won, I thought? The winner ran 8:09 and I thought it was him, but the results don't have him listed. I figured that was just an issue with the results.
So despite what Wightman said about it being a fluid selection process, my buddy who was a journalist in Ethiopia has told me the top 3 here are on the team. This is their trials.
Jonathan Gault has confirmed that he's been told that the top 3 here with the standard are on the team.
Have the pacemakers for the US Trials been announced yet?
Will there be a Wavelight in Tokyo, or do we expect the fastest Ethiopian steeplechasers to be incapable of running 8:20/9:30?
rojo wrote:
So despite what Wightman said about it being a fluid selection process, my buddy who was a journalist in Ethiopia has told me the top 3 here are on the team. This is their trials.
Jonathan Gault has confirmed that he's been told that the top 3 here with the standard are on the team.
One of the guys you posted, Takele, did win this race in 8:09.37. The results are just a bit odd in that they list him separately because he is under 20, so he's in the U20 results instead of the senior men results, event though there was just one race.
But he won.
There were two below 8:20, weren't there?
Why are the Ethiopian men so weak in the 800m? By now they have world class runners 1500m up, incl. steeple but the 800m are lackluster...
rojo wrote:
Hot rumor is that Tsegay may be going for 5000 WR.
ANother rumor is they may go for 10k WR. I hope both fall and then hear the excuses as to why the shoes don't matter.
Where did these rumors originate? Would seem like a crazy thing to do at an Olympic Trials.
Jo72 wrote:
There were two below 8:20, weren't there?
Why are the Ethiopian men so weak in the 800m? By now they have world class runners 1500m up, incl. steeple but the 800m are lackluster...
I'm not one of them, but there's a big contingent here who thinks the Wavelight over a second/lap.
Uh, that women's 800?
Wow. 1:56 for Getachew. Looked strong.
Wow indeed. 55.85 at the bell for the pacer? Alemu couldn't cope with it.
How long before 2-3 Ethiopian women realize they can make a good living running ~9:00 steeples? I suppose Mekides Abebe might be the first (born 2001, ran 9:02 NR at this year’s Doha DL).