THOUGHTSLEADER wrote:
It’s cyclical and there’s a nice talent boom for GB. Also we should say that Team GB athletes have great access to fast races. Almost all these athletes get cracks on the Diamond League and being based in St Moritz/Europe helps quite a bit as last-minute additions or getting put in over athletes who have to travel. There’re 3-4 Kenyans who ran 3:33-3:34 flat to win Continental Tour Gold meets but don’t get invites to DL races and can’t just jump into these European DL meets late while being based in Kenya.
George Mills ran 3:33 twice, including a 3:33.18. But you think it's unfair he gets picked over guys who have broken 3:36 once and have probably been barely tested?
Yeah, Mills running 3:30 on 24 hours notice is nothing a dozen Kenyans couldn't do, Josh Kerr still hasn't reproduced his Tokyo form, and Katir is clean as a whistle whereas Nordas is dirtier than a Bombay sewer.