People will hate on this, but this is very true. Hocker would've thrived in a 1500 that played out the way it did today. We'll see how the 5k plays out for him. This years 1500m was very boring with no Jakob and with the Americans not in the mix.
yeah, no disrespect meant to Wightman, but if even someone like Jake Wightman who is well into his 30s, could almost win; Hocker, the reigning Olympic champion and OR holder, who also has far better kick, 800m PR and talent, would have easily demolished the field today, especially when Kerr was out. Not only was his DQ a travesty of justice, but it also denied a real show-down of the best guys. Now thanks to the official who tried to stand on the moral high ground, this 1500m will forever be remembered as a clown show just like Rio. Thank you very much really.
Wightman has a better 800 PR than Hocker. So does Nader.
That said, I agree the 1500 was a clown show, and officials were a bit overzealous, doing the equivalent of virtue-signaling, as everyone has seen similar and much worse infractions, especially from Africans, ignored.
People will hate on this, but this is very true. Hocker would've thrived in a 1500 that played out the way it did today. We'll see how the 5k plays out for him. This years 1500m was very boring with no Jakob and with the Americans not in the mix.
yeah, no disrespect meant to Wightman, but if even someone like Jake Wightman who is well into his 30s, could almost win; Hocker, the reigning Olympic champion and OR holder, who also has far better kick, 800m PR and talent, would have easily demolished the field today, especially when Kerr was out. Not only was his DQ a travesty of justice, but it also denied a real show-down of the best guys. Now thanks to the official who tried to stand on the moral high ground, this 1500m will forever be remembered as a clown show just like Rio. Thank you very much really.
7:23 (1 sec off the WR) in the 3k. Demolished the competition in the 5k, which is his side event, with the last lap faster than today's. Not enough for you?
He also didn't win that much before the Olympic last year, but then we saw what happened.
"Not enough for you?" genuinely not. Yared ran huge races at distances more relevant to the 1500m more recently than the 3k you just cited. He didn't make the team. You also misused the word "demolished" which makes me think you're related to Cole or something. He's a great athlete, but it's tight at the top. There's a narrow margin between winning the whole thing and not even getting the chance to compete, and he messed up.