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That was a sneaky WR. She took OFF that last 70-80 or so. Reminded me a lot of Wayde Van Niekerk’s 400 where they were both having strong races and just went crazy at the end.
She and Rai ran both races pretty much the same way: i.e. taking off at the 200M mark.
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Funny thought: Holt was DQed, which led to Matsatsa in the race. He finished DFL, so why does it matter?
Because Matsatsa was acting crazily in the race and causing chaos. At the 100m break he attempts to box in Murphy and block his path to the front. Murphy fights through but takes a push for his efforts. The ripple effect is Hoey gets by Murphy before 150m. 10 seconds later and 250m in Matsatsa pushes Murphy again! Not even sure why, I guess he thought Murphy was slowing too much.
Next impact- at 350 Shane Cohen is actually connected to the pack and trying to pass into 7th. Matsatsa cuts in front and blocks this and Cohen loses a step and valuable momentum on the pack as a result ahead of the bell.
Next impact is he makes a hard surge at 400-500m and forces Josh Hoey on his inside to work just a bit harder to get by him and attack the top 3. Hoey wisely waits to mount a final attack until the straight but is not close enough to run down Miller even as he fades.
Lastly Matsatsa’s positioning makes Murphy have to kick very wide and Koech goes by on the inside. Even having a dreadful last 100m, he affects the kicks of multiple guys.
Funnily enough if Holt is in it he almost assuredly runs in the back with Cohen and impedes no one.
Also, Cockrell and Jones with 52.6x and 52.7x. This event has definitely changed after stagnating for decades. Thank you, Muhammad and McLaughlin for helping to drag everyone else to excellence.
Utterly wild to think those could've been world-leading times not that long ago, and now they need freaking binoculars to see Sydney 50 meters down the track.
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If I’m Kessler - I run the 1500 at the Olympics with a new found confidence. I don’t think any of us expected Kessler to be 1:43.xx in the semi and back it up in the 800 final with another PB. It’s one thing to do this through 3 rounds - it is a completely different beast to run 3 1500 rounds beforehand and then produce this result.
Honest talk, how many guys have run 3:31/1:43 in T&F history. How many of them dropped a 1:43 after 6 races in 8 days?
The A-T list has to be single digits, right?
Many people can run 1:43 and 3:31. Doesn't matter.
Name them. And none of this “oh they ran 1:45 in sub optimal conditions - which means they could run 1:43 in a perfectly paced race”
All this tells me is Hobbs needs to get towed to a high 3:27- 3:28 low result in a DL race. He is a sub 3:30 guy no doubt after that Trials.
I'm going to make a bold prediction here right now.
If Kessler runs extremely well in this 8 final (and I believe he will and can possibly win), Vincent Ciattei might find himself on an Olympic team. This comes from a few whispers I have heard over the last couple of days....
Makes sense to me - much higher medal chance. Hes far behind the “big 3” of Kerr, Jakob, Nuguse
And Sedjati might lay off the drugs too early and look like Katir in 2021. Then he could get bronze behind Arop and Wanyonyi
I'm really excited for her to have run successive 52s. It might not compare to a 50 WR, but 52.64 puts her at 11th of all time, and definitely in the conversation for a medal, albeit probably bronze due to the logjam with Syd and Femke.
We're getting the time trial I expected. but she's not Jakob in doing it smooth. 45 and 61 is a little quick. Jakob is a master of pacing. Lookk for a 64 second lap.
Greatest track meet in US history, truly fantastic performances up and down the board, and this idiot can't stop yammering about Jakob. (When he's not yammering about his brilliant ideas about race --which is pretty much every three minutes.)
Name them. And none of this “oh they ran 1:45 in sub optimal conditions - which means they could run 1:43 in a perfectly paced race”
All this tells me is Hobbs needs to get towed to a high 3:27- 3:28 low result in a DL race. He is a sub 3:30 guy no doubt after that Trials.
I think Hobbs had a great trials and has a tremendous future. But 3:27-8? Are we talking about Hocker or Hobbs? Hobbs was in a race where two guys ran 3:30 - yes in probably 3:28-9 shape. But let’s be real he finished closer to Ciattei than them. There was a gap. And it wasn’t tactics or anything like that. It was pure 1500m ability.
He can PB from here abd sub 3:30 is certainly possible if he gets a good ride in a DL race. But those races have 14-16 people often heavily jostling in the pack. I won’t expect it to go perfect, but I’d hope so. We saw at Pre the challenges for both Kessler and Hocker in a crowded race. This meet should have really showed you more Hobbs is really learning tactically AND he’s very good at the 800m (and a quick learner) for a guy who’s so far mostly run 1500s. We had an inkling of this with sone strong 800s/1000s even in a tough first year as a pro, and then a solid one last year. But people are reacting to the 800m like it completely changes what we’ve seen in his 1500s.