Wow! Hoey takes down Wanyonyi and Arop to WIN Lausanne Diamond League

LOL. On a recent post meet video you said the tactic he used at USAs was what he needed to use. Just like Nuguse last week, you have to develop a different way to race and can’t always go straight to the front in national races sans pacers. Not a fan of Hoey but good racing on his part, showed he can learn. Hoppel on the other hand, is not having a stellar season with his hit or miss. I think he has raced way too much.

Walks like a duck, quacks like a duck

Don’t even care anymore. At least half of our top US guys are probably on something. I don’t trust Hocker and really wish he won the Olympics in a slow 3:33 race, so I could believe he’s clean. But for some reason Hoey is coming across likeable now. I guess because he’s in the underdog seat now and delivered.

My takeaway from that race is that the US is very well positioned for Worlds. If somebody were to go out at 49.5 and hang on for, say, a low 1:41, then yes that person would beat Donovan and Cooper. But in a somewhat slower race, one that is slightly more tactical and that goes 1:42+, the US might have two best kickers in the field.

(Yes I know that comment presupposes that we will get the same version of Lutkenhaus that we had at US Nationals. He's just a kid; he might fall apart, or not even make the Final. Just saying, there wasn't anybody in the Lausanne race that had the kick that Cooper customarily has, and that he showed once again at US Nationals, despite that being much faster race that he was accustomed to.)

It really came down to Hoey being the better swimmer on the day.

Oy vey. The hatred of the West is strong with one.

Im Canadian and arop is easily my favorite runner next to wightman, but yeah you’re completely right. I wont let bias get in the way of the obvious.

I didn’t race because Im chilling in Algeria hiding from the AIU so I can be primed for Tokyo. Why race and risk a positive test and be forced to cycle off the dope?

Tooth Ugg Eels!!!

is there a list of pouring rain world records? There should be.

Hoey ran 1:54 -> 1:50 -> 1:47 in his last three years of high school, and he's been training intensely (maybe too intensely) since then. Yesterday's race was a make-or-break for him, in a different way than it was for anyone else in the race. He ran with very good tactics, hardly any extra distance, didn't get boxed in at all,

in that context, 1:42 for the win seems... fairly reasonable, I think.

Always has been.

So what were all those threads and posts about?

So how many other 1:54 HS runners have progressed to 1:42? Nothing to see here.

Hoppel didnt run so well in his last race. He may be getting injured,which means hoey will make the team.