Who were your biggest winners and losers at Pre?

Biggest winners (Male):

#1. Joe Kovacs - a series of world leading throws, including one over 22m

#2. Boris Berian - defeated a good field, and looks like he can go faster

#3. Christian Taylor - responded with a very good leap on last attempt

Biggest winners (Female)

#1. Ruth Jebet and Kiyeng - amazing run by both, and jebet likely to be the clean WR holder

#2. Kendra Harrison - amazing hurdling from her

#3. Bowie - ran very well and defeated 2 great competitors

Biggest Losers (Male)

#1, #2, #3.: All American distance runners barring Berian

Biggest Losers (Female)

#1. Sanya Richards Ross: she's officially done

#2. Shelly-Ann: looks terrible

#3. Candyce McGrone: dead last in the 200m, which is terrible considering she's 4th last year

The race was really strung out pretty much right from the start. So a lot of the guys (esp. Americans other than Mead) were 3-4 seconds behind those splits.

The race was barely on sub-13 pace for much of the way.

I know it was warmer, but I just expected more I guess.

Also didn't help that the trackside clock by me (at the 200m mark) was busted and I was having trouble keeping splits straight, so certainly could also be a perception issue on my part.

Where's the love for Kamorer. Runner up in pre 5k after winning world half's just a couple months back and runner-up in new York last fall. Should bode well for his 10k potential. Him Vs Farah is going to be the Marque distance match up on the men's side at the Olympics.

What did you think of Kamworor's last lap. I could not help but think that if this was Rio he would have been smoked by Mo.

Notable outside of Pre this week

Orji TJ- USAs only OG Q'ed TJer

Hotson PV

Ewen HT

Gotch HJ

L.Cunningham PV

Rosser 400h

Trimble 200

Winners:

1) the wome's steeple chase and new American record holder Emma Coburn

2) Hassan Mead, dude has really progressed over the past few years

3) Chris Derrick, gotta admire someone who will race knowing he's not in pr shape. I mean he could've said something lame like having a toe nail or stress reaction injury. I wonder of PRE ever ditched a race with a toe nail injury....

4) Boris, way to run amongst all the drama Nike pulled

5) Rosseler, she's always a winner. Meow!

Losers:

1) Mo Farah, yes he won the race but he complained about not having stronger competitors to run fast. Maybe push the pace and take a page out of Pre's book or even the dude who nearly beat him who just went for it

2) NBC. Commentating, video coverage, lack of video coverage and lame ass ceo interviews no one wants to hear.

3) Andrew Weating. Maybe talent does go away..

Biggest loser: Detroit/Ann Arbor area NBC affiliate ... they put an INFOMERCIAL on over the coverage of the meet!!!

Seriously, I was at a bar specifically to watch the meet, and asked them to switch it to NBC for the Prefontaine Classic. So they did, right before 5:00 pm, and coverage of some golf event was ending, with the message, "Next up: coverage of the Prefontaine Classic"

Then, right on the hour, a little message came on about the local station switching the programming appeared, and an infomercial about some sort of fryer came on! Not sure if it lasted the whole hour, because other patrons of the bar demanded a change of channel after 10 minutes, and I couldn't blame them. I was so mad - one of the precious few times track makes it onto TV, the disrespect it is given.

Outside Observer wrote:

Losers:

The guy who rabbited the mile. Poor planning.

Biggest loser? Me. For not attending. Missed chance of a lifetime to see Kiprop run.

Biggest Winner or biggest surprise as your choices indicate? Biggest winner was Kiprop for winning the main event.

It's a good point. The mile was the main even, the big show and while underwhelming these guys typically race each other often. Respect

Dretch wrote:

Al Sal was a big loser today. Rupp and Centro couldn't run, Shannon looked off her game. Mo was fine as usual but whatever.

The more distance from Al the more success among that group.

OklahomaGuy wrote:

"men's 5000 was slow from the start"

60 second first lap, 4:10 first mile?

Haha more high-quality analysis from the aficionado running site.

runthecountry wrote:

Biggest loser: Detroit/Ann Arbor area NBC affiliate ... they put an INFOMERCIAL on over the coverage of the meet!!!

Seriously, I was at a bar specifically to watch the meet, and asked them to switch it to NBC for the Prefontaine Classic. So they did, right before 5:00 pm, and coverage of some golf event was ending, with the message, "Next up: coverage of the Prefontaine Classic"

Then, right on the hour, a little message came on about the local station switching the programming appeared, and an infomercial about some sort of fryer came on! Not sure if it lasted the whole hour, because other patrons of the bar demanded a change of channel after 10 minutes, and I couldn't blame them. I was so mad - one of the precious few times track makes it onto TV, the disrespect it is given.

Well, if the fryer infomercial will pay more for the time...

Can't believe no one has brought up Will Claye as the biggest loser. After one of his jumps, he runs onto the track, in front of the women's steeplechasers and hurdles a barrier! Although it didn't affect her race, Emma Coburn was not happy about it.

Claye did run across the track directly in front of the pack on the steeplechase first lap. And that was very rude.

But he didn't hurdle a barrier.

something tells me wrote:

But he didn't hurdle a barrier.

Yes he did. I was there. After he crossed in front of the runners, he ran towards the 100m mark and hurdled the barrier that the runners had just jumped over.

The same distance that allowed Shannon to break the AR last year and get bronze at the WCs this year?

Or the distance between he and Centro when Centro won the Gold at the WCs?

Or maybe when Galen jogged the US Trials Marathon and destroyed everyone?

Biggest losers - NBC TV audience. What other 'professional' sport has had their television coverage actually get exponentially worse over the last 40 years?

kmaclam wrote:

Biggest losers - NBC TV audience. What other 'professional' sport has had their television coverage actually get exponentially worse over the last 40 years?

The men's 10k was spectacular, Emmy winning stuff.

I can't see why they can't PIP like other sporting events. Hell give us the upper right quadrant of the screen, most tvs are big enough to let us see the actual race while Nike consumes the rest of the real estate.

I guess we should be grateful we even get to see the awesome personal interviews given the state of the sport.