longjacksss wrote:
the posts on this thread are excellent and pretty much predicted what happened.
looking at the splits 12x 100 in the back stretch was required not to get gapped, and Hocker possible could not rally instantaneously, psychologically saving his energy for the finish.
which i call a costly mistake,
therere definite errors in the splits. Wanyonyi gained on everyone from 400-300 it was not a 13.23, and it being a 12.90 makes sense as gourley 13.23 works. It also looks like Gourley and Wanyonyi swapped splits on the backstretch. Gourley definitively gains ground as Wanyonyi slows to go inside for the curve.
Actual EW splits: 12.90, 12.59, 13.16, 12.72
Gourley: 13.23, 12.49, 13.02, 12.98
*13.06 penultimate gourley split apologies
THOUGHTSLEADER wrote:
therere definite errors in the splits. Wanyonyi gained on everyone from 400-300 it was not a 13.23, and it being a 12.90 makes sense as gourley 13.23 works. It also looks like Gourley and Wanyonyi swapped splits on the backstretch. Gourley definitively gains ground as Wanyonyi slows to go inside for the curve.
Actual EW splits: 12.90, 12.59, 13.16, 12.72
Gourley: 13.23, 12.49, 13.02, 12.98
I was about to post something in the same vein…. The splits Rojo reproduced don’t quite add up to the final times; totals off by 5 or 6 hundredths for Wanyoni, Nuguse, Kerr at least. And they’d have Wanyoni 2nd at 1100 instead of 4th. I haven’t retimed the race, but I’d doubt that 17.08 by Nuguse between 600 and 700; he held 2nd place and his relative position vs Kerr and Wanyoni, who were given 15.xx splits…