Nathan Green STUNS the world. Wins 2026 USA 1500 title. Cole Hocker only 5th

Rojo - don't get too confident on your predictions. Look at who has the WCS and who does not.

Jakob’s indoor double last year gave me even more respect as now we see how hard it is to double win two hard finals back to back indoors. He even beat Houser who beat Hocker today.

Rojo once again u r overlooking who does not have the WCS.

Your personal opinion does not have any weight with WA. Rojo once again u r overlooking who does not have the WCS.

Just rewatched the race a few times. Davis Bove, who later tripped (with around 300 to go), first lost his shoe, around (2:15 into the race with 600 to go), right when Nuguse took the lead. Hard to tell from the video what happened exactly, but one moment he has his right shoe and all of a sudden it's gone. It seems like you can see it left behind on the turn.

He continues to run the next 300 strong, following Houser closely in 2nd when Houser made his big move with 400 to go. Later he trips (potentially due to clipping from Nathan Green, eventual winner?).

Reminder - Bove came up with the huge assist at NB late January when a paced Kessler and Fisher in the 2000, leading them through 1600 in 3:53.

Yeah well the Olympic champion usually is great at his event, but sometimes Hicham would lose his main event. It happens, and doubling can make it more likely.

Do these guys have the time or the ranking?

"Stuns the world" is also a hilarious statement in this context: 1) slow time, 2) domestic race, 3) Olympic gold and bronze medalists coming off a longer race the day before, 4) weak competition besides Hocker and Nuguse

Not exactly. Hocker doesn't win many 1,500m races at all. Jakob won pretty much everything except global finals.

Also, being "tired" from a relatively slow 3k the day before is no excuse. Remember when Jakob went 3:43/7:23 on consecutive days?

A better comparison would be Jakob winning the 15/3 double twice last year.

Green has great heart. NCAA champ with some pretty amazing performances. I’m excited for him and all the other post-college kids hitting the track. This is how it’s supposed to be.

Big props to Nathan Green and Lindsey Butler. Dream it, achieve it.

Do you expect anyone's race tactics to work out 100% of the time?

His tactics failed him in the 1500 semis at Worlds last year. But otherwise they've been brilliant. He would not have Olympic gold, and many other of his major wins, if he hadn't been patient when anyone else would have panicked and gone for an outside pass. And he doesn't always stay glued to the rail (see World Champs 5k last year).

I think today he was just flat, like everyone else who raced the 3k yesterday (Nuguse, Mackay, etc.). It's indoor champs, Worlds isn't for another three weeks, so people are training through it to some extent and not able to bounce back as quickly.

This is indoors. So let us not overreact here. Plus everyone “, even Rojo, knows Hocker is no Jakob. Hocker has a better kick than Jakob, but Hocker doesn’t have 12:35-12:40 in him, and we can be pretty certain Jakob once did, even if not now.

Yesterday if Nico Young doesn't have to cover 10-12 or so meters more in the final half of the race thanks to his stupid and unnecessary position in the opening half of the race (he was 14th at one point - why?) then Hocker getting shuffled back to 4th in a slow race with 600m to go should have killed him - but of course it didn't.

Stitch, you know I usually love your stuff on here, on this take on Hocker, I cannot agree. First of all Nico Young does not get credit for a race he did not run(tactically) , altho you mention it 100% correctly, thats on him. Hocker had to go way into the well with that 2:21.x yesterday to expect too much today, on the turnaround, I think and I am wrong way more than enough. I could tell he was in trouble three different times, when you get shuffled back to 5th indoors, past half way, thats gonna be a rough ride in so to speak. Nuguse, was almost gonna give up, it looked like to me, but manned up to try and get there, also had nothing. A fresh guy with no trials or heats won, this did not surprise me as much as it seems to have others.

He more means that both have been dominating in regular season races and then when it comes to championships absolutely bombing out.

Wow, Nathan Green! I remember Rojo said he thought Green had a better chance of making the 2028 US Olympic team than Hobbs Kessler. Jonathan Gault mocked Rojo for that.

Rojo may or may not be proven right, but it's not a foregone conclusion one way or the other.

Can believe Green won. Can’t believe Hocker was 5th.

Heart also breaks for Ciattei, I hope he wins the World Road Mile this September

Did Green and Houser say where they will be racing to try to get standard?

Slow but great race yesterday. Slow race today. I don’t think fatigue should have affected Hocker or Nuguse. Bad tactics on this one. But hey, can’t be perfect all the time.