Spencer makes some kind of sense if organizers are taking nationality (and NCAA alma mater) into consideration, though Spencer at 3:50.19 actually performed rather well.
Flavien Szot is gonna fly under the speculative radar since he’s not a big name, but he’s a Nike sponsored athlete who ran well below his recent level.
Is racing 1 mile (with warm up and cool down) that big of a deal? If the medical folks clear the activity, they clear the activity. Josh Allen was one of the best quarterbacks in the league last year with broken bones in his hands.
Does Josh Allen run on his hands? That's quite impressive!
Couldn't it have been someone in the International mile? could have been Ciattei, Spencer (not sure on his affiliation but thought he was in Nike kit?), or Strand though Strand seems incredibly unlikely. My money would be on Spencer given the Aussie connection.
I suppose, but would they really strong-arm someone in a pre-program race that ran behind a paywall?
I forget what podcast I heard this on, but I remember someone saying Olympic gold medalists or medalists don’t have to share rooms at Diamond Leagues
I’m struggling to recall who it was, but a US distance or mid d guy had to share a hotel room with another guy who made the team for world champs and the hotel room had a see-through glass wall for the bathroom. He tweeted some joke about how they are going to have to get comfortable with one another because they can’t poop or shower without the other one seeing them in a glass enclosure. This was some time between 2015-2019 or so. I’ll do my best to try to find it
Idk if it is just me, but Ollie irked me the wrong way in this episode. This plus him talking about Nuguse and how he was oblivious to Rai Benjamin and some things related to Steve Prefontaine. I appreciate some of his takes and insights, but some of these revelations were imo probably best to keep to himself and his Pre roommate and Nuguse.
Agree. Sometimes this sort of behavior comes out when one is not doing so well or sliding from prominence or insecure. They start deflecting or putting others down more. These extraneous things were a deflection from his performance. It can be a defense mechanism, like when someone laughs at themselves in a self-deprecating way.
I'd absolutely take the opportunity to room with an Olympic medalist, and Yared seems like a really nice, easy going guy. Rooming with a hateful bigot like you? I'd pass.
Him and mcsweyn are completely off the mark at 1500, Nic B getting mc sweyn in to races he’s not good enough for us a joke. Aussies refuse to accept the boys are done. Maybe they could move up and be competitive but the 1500/mile is not where they should be anymore.