Jonathan Gault mentioned that he picks Josh Kerr ahead of Timothy and Jakob to be Olympic Champion in the 1500m final!!!!!
It makes sense and Jonathan is right on the money!!!!!Josh is just as capable of 3:26:73 as Jakob. Jonathan said Danny Mackey watched how Josh nailed a 400x8 in 54 seconds each with 90 seconds rest in carbon plated supershoes and that was worth a 3:26 itself. Danny thinks Josh runs 3:26 in Monaco with Jakob but wasn't sure if it beat him.
I agree with all these points including the fact that Jonathan confirms Josh Kerr to be the superior kicker than Jakob a point which I have painstakingly reiterated endlessly since a few weeks ago and Jonathan can see it too!!!!
Jonathan didn't mention, however, that Josh Kerr is able to spread his legs hence his stride wider and larger in the final 100m sprint while maintaining the same cadence frequency as the rest of the competitors and this would be the determining factor for who reaches the finish line first. It's not the one who will turnover his legs faster, it's the one who can STRIDE HIS WAY to the finish line with the largest stride!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Remember how El G outkicked Bekele in Athens 2004?????? Jos Hermans commented that El G was just 'opening up his legs' like striding when he overtook Bekele and it looked so easy and effortless while Bekele was struggling to turnover his legs at a higher frequency as he had maxxed out his stride length but still failed to match El G and lost the race!!!!!
Same thing when El G overtook Lagat down the homestretch in the 1500m at Athens. He merely strode larger and opened up his legs wider and further to inch ahead of Lagat while Lagat had maxxed out his stride length and also resorting to turning over his legs at a higher frequency to catch El G but it didn't work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So in everything whether trying to get a WR in the mile/1500m or trying to win its major championships the defining factor for stardom and success, unlike in the marathon, is really about how wide you can open those legs of yours and how much real estate you can cover in 1 stride because the stride frequency is fixed at its natural frequency for the attendant stride length. Stride frequency is not something you shall force upon yourself, it's stride length that you force because you need to drive your legs into the ground and push off as far as you can in the finishing kick!!!!!!!
A good sprinter don't go into the finishing straight and think 'oh let's turnover my legs faster at a higher cadence' IF he can rather just open up his legs and allow them to determine and decide the elastic coefficient of natural frequency of its cadence with no conscious thought control going into it. Only athletes who don't have the ability to spread their legs, hence don't have the talent to run or sprint who resorts to trying to turnover their legs faster using conscious thought hence wasting precious energy thinking they will still beat those who spread their legs wider and spank them in the finishing straight!!!!