Tombfrost wrote:
3 brits in the final, one American.... just the 260 million population difference between the two.
More Scottish runners in the final than Americans. Despite the 318m population difference,
Tombfrost wrote:
3 brits in the final, one American.... just the 260 million population difference between the two.
More Scottish runners in the final than Americans. Despite the 318m population difference,
Fastest to losers, to final - Heyward and Grethen. Unlucky for Centro. A lot of predictions went out the window.
Tombfrost wrote:
3 brits in the final, one American.... just the 260 million population difference between the two.
brits any good at basketball? how about hockey? baseball? american football? anything besides soccer and running?
no one in america cares about track and field except the ones that waste their time here (like me).
Great Britain with all 3 very 'useful' runners thru to M 1500 final.
Glad both semis were honest races and not this sissy boy crapola. I hope McSweyn gets a medal. He saw the pace was slow at the start and shot to front and said "No no...not today boss"
I believe that 100%. Kipsang looked fire, Ingebrigtsen, Hocker, Kerr and Tim relaxed. This is gonna be one for the ages.
What I'm so excited about is how much different racing styles are present. Who knows what will happen?
Hocker and Ingebrigsten need to pull a Centrowitz 2016 Rio, control the pace slow as possible, while Cheryiot and McSweyn want to take it to everyone from the start. Really exciting to see how it plays out!
Typo: “ Fastest to losers”
Correct:”fastest two losers (outside top 5) to final” = Heyward, Grethen.
Textbook performance wrote:
...and that, ladies and germs, is how you handle a "master tactician".
korrekt, and in 3 years everyone will have forgotten these races and say dumb things like 'the better runner always wins no matter the pace' so there is no sense going for a fast time in a championship race.
fact is, you can out run people when they expect a slower time.
te5n1k wrote:
Tombfrost wrote:
3 brits in the final, one American.... just the 260 million population difference between the two.
brits any good at basketball? how about hockey? baseball? american football? anything besides soccer and running?
no one in america cares about track and field except the ones that waste their time here (like me).
saying brits are good at soccer maybe overstating since you guys havent wont a championship in what...50 years...ill change that to passionate.
Ghost1 wrote:
Fastest to losers, to final - Heyward and Grethen. Unlucky for Centro. A lot of predictions went out the window.
Not sure I'd describe it as "unlucky" This is the exact type of race he and his coach were expecting and preparing for. Just didn't have it though it was probably his fastest 1500 this year,
I'd say this aged pretty well.
https://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=10621624&page=6#10622184
te5n1k wrote:
Tombfrost wrote:
3 brits in the final, one American.... just the 260 million population difference between the two.
brits any good at basketball? how about hockey? baseball? american football? anything besides soccer and running?
no one in america cares about track and field except the ones that waste their time here (like me).
Some of them sports you named have very low participation levels world wide. The clue is in the name with one of them.
Competing for a Bronze medal in the Womens hockey this week, reigning Olympic Champions.
Nageotte battling for gold! Four left at 4.85. She sits at silver right now on fewer misses. Sidorova hasn't missed yet.
Gripped wrote:
Is Trey Okay? wrote:
Actually closer to 3:34 with 3:33.87.
Trampoline track. With a normal track that's 3:35 on the dot.
Change is a reality of life. Technology evolves constantly. They used to run on cinder tracks with leather shoes. Everything is change, everything is flux. This is reality. These guys are still beasts trampolines or no trampolines.
te5n1k wrote:
saying brits are good at soccer maybe overstating since you guys havent wont a championship in what...50 years...ill change that to passionate.
They compete as 4 separate teams in Soccer tbf. Fairly impressive.
Through both the rounds, I think Wightman looked as good as anyone. Hocker has looked great as well, and now people can be quiet about his PR I suppose.
I would say Tim and Jakob remain the favorites and have looked great, but outside those two I like Wightman for bronze, with Kipsang, McSweyn (if it’s really fast), and Hocker also in the mix. I would throw Kerr in there but he looked very bad in the first round. Could just be a bad race.
Start list for final (listed are pb and sb)
KEN
CHERUIYOT Timothy
3:28.28 3:28.28
ESP
FONTES Ignacio
3:33.27 3:33.27
KEN
KIPSANG Abel
3:31.65 3:31.65
LUX
GRETHEN Charles
3:32.86 3:32.86
GBR
HEYWARD Jake
3:32.82 3:32.82
NOR
INGEBRIGTSEN Jakob
3:28.68 3:29.25
AUS
HOARE Oliver
3:32.35 3:32.35
GBR
KERR Josh
3:31.55 3:31.55
AUS
McSWEYN Stewart
3:29.51 3:29.51
ESP
MECHAAL Adel
3:32.19 3:32.19
GBR
WIGHTMAN Jake
3:29.47 3:33.48
USA
HOCKER Cole
3:33.87 3:33.87
te5n1k wrote:
Tombfrost wrote:
3 brits in the final, one American.... just the 260 million population difference between the two.
brits any good at basketball? how about hockey? baseball? american football? anything besides soccer and running?
no one in america cares about track and field except the ones that waste their time here (like me).
Jamaica's 3 million is the same as Mississippi.
think about that for a while on a medal per capita
Mayer with a 73.09 spear. Close to a deca WR. Back into medal contention.
Women's vault really heating up now...4 left. Stefanidi is fourth the only one not to clear 4.85