EVAN JAGER RETIRES

That is right. They are both on my Mt. Rushmore.

Since September after he decimated the 5k field in Tokyo; backing up his win in Paris, getting redemption after his unfair dq, and proving the Hocker haters wrong… Cole Hocker is my pick for the American GOAT.

He won the pinnacle of the sport in an Olympic record. He beat an insanely competitive field in an unbelievably competitive era. He proved it was no fluke when he proved the Hocker Haters wrong when he beat the 5k guys at their own game in the second fastest WC time to date. He has a world indoors silver. He has the hardware, the PRs, the competition, the Olympic record, and the story.

That's ignored to maintain the illusion that this likely medicated blonde boy was on some form of pharmaceutical assistance.

If there is this racial double standard cover up, then why did they ban Shelby Houlihan?

Seeing this kid run in HS, Stanford invites 2009, US champs in 2009. you could just see he was a mega talent.

I don’t like the moniker “cheat shoes” anymore as everyone has access to them now and it’s the new normal, a new era as it was to go along with bicarb and double threshold.

But, no doubt, Jager, even with a fall, would’ve been sub-7:55 in his prime in the contemporary shoes.

So you are saying that Evan was close to world record ability in today’s shoes, because if he was 7:54xx with a fall, he was very close to the fastest who has ever done it. I am not so sure about that, but he was the best the US has seen for sure.

Always liked him, but that passport thing is new to me and concerning,

The first they (who are deleting posts here) aren't the they who banned Houlihan but who defended her.

Loved Jager. One of my favorite runners. Met him after Olympic Trials in Eugene in 2016 and he signed my shirt. Nice guy, very genuine. I seemed to remember there actually be a legitimate explanation for the fancybears thing … not like a flawed test but that there was some reason he was in it that wasn’t necessarily a complete red flag. I can’t remember but I think he talked about it at some point. And I think it was a soleus injury that ultimately got him … most f*ing annoying impossible to get rid of overuse injury.

He said he was at altitude. Yet of all the athletes at altitude worldwide, only 17 were "likely doping". Only one of the 17 got +++++ on a scale of 1 - 3.

Since that target testing started, he became more and more injury-prone, and started slowing down.

But yes, he never got banned - unless it was one of USADA's secret bans.

Evan Jager single-handedly elevated steeple in the US. You can't say that about too many athletes. There was a time when every collegiate steepler wanted to be him - they probably still do.

His fall was not ‘heartbreaking’,

he ran to his max and the bit the tartan.

i called at the time that he would never run faster….

The moderator posing as Salvatore stichmo disagreed, then banned me from this site for two years…

Yes, you read that right.

Well, Lordy be, I was right,

and you were very wrong Salvatore stichmo.

Saw him pace a 5k at BU about seven years ago. Introduced my 10 year old to him probably 5 minutes after the race ended. Took a photo with my son and talked to him for a few minutes. Just a class act and the greatest steeplechaser in US history, even better than Henry Marsh.

This is true and it's rather unfortunate. Some people just aren't made for the longer stuff(as others aren't for the shorter) and I am glad he didn't slam his head against the wall trying to be world-class at events he just wasn't meant for.

He'll always have Paris.

1) Salvatore Stichmo is not a moderator.

There were tons of athletes on the list, many you've heard of, and it was a leak from Fancy Bears, hoping to make Western Athletes look bad. Fancy Bears had a series of leaks.

Here is the list of the leak that had Jager: http://www.letsrun.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/IAAF2.pdf&hl=en_US

"Likely doping" isn't a scientific term, but I'd love to know more what it really meant in biological passport terms and what those scientist think of it 8 years later.

Jager immediately released a statement stating his innocence https://www.letsrun.com/news/2017/07/evan-jager-releases-statement-fancy-bears-hack-never-will-never-break-try-bend-anti-doping-rule/

A lot of athletes stayed silent as it was a leak of info that was supposed to be private and no clarification was given on.

Here's more on it: https://www.letsrun.com/news/2017/07/say-aint-fancy-bears-hack-reveal-many-track-fields-biggest-stars-likely-doping-see-latest-fancy-bears-documents/

Guardian article:

theguardian.com

Sebastian Coe says Fancy Bears leak damages IAAF fight against cheats

https://www.theguardian.com/profile/seaningle

Sebastian Coe, the president of the IAAF, has said in the aftermath of the Fancy Bears leak that there can be no excuse for the leaking of personal and medical data

Open link

Evan Jager had great hair, probably still does.