fawn lebowitz wrote:Except for your reasoning that the Russians effectively scared off potential Ethiopian threats in the 1500m, I largely agree with your analysis
hermens clearly isn't any einstein
he looked at boulmerka's 3'55 in a race - not wabbited euro circuit, ayhan's 3'55s, ruskie 3'55s ( & may/may not have converted svetlys 4'12.5wr to 3'53.8 with 1.08 ) & not realised that shifting their 5k down from 14'30 to 14'10 with 56 basic speed rearranges the 1500 dynamic
with
http://www.jundo.co.uk56.00
with
14'30 ->~ 1'59.46 3'56.69 8'21.37 30'33.31
14'20 ->~ 1'59.03 3'55.12 8'16.58 30'07.82
14'10 ->~ 1'58.59 3'53.55 8'11.80 29'42.33
hermens the idiot didn't know they were already capable of 3'56 back in '04
they can actually go 3'53 now but he seems to have learnt nothing