DMR Stud Move wrote:
Does anyone not remember his baller move on the anchor leg of the USA DMR team at World Relays? The Kenyan dude came up on him in the first 100 and Ben basically said "go ahead, get in front" and the Kenyan dude took the bait and flew off and ran like 52 for the first lap. Was gassed at the end and Ben zoomed past for the win.
The funniest part is that "Kenyan dude" was a young Timothy Cheruiyot. I remember at the time thinking the guy was naive and ran a pretty dumb race while Ben closed out a WR and a gold medal. Obviously Tim improved and blazed his way to a 2019 world championship and 2021 Olympic silver, doing some nice rabbiting for Jakob along the way. Track can be pretty funny the way people's careers in races play out looking back.