The Fauble criticism never made sense to begin with. Hocker raced a lot in college and then as a pro he’d doubled at indoors USAs. Yes he had some time trials, but he’d raced Pre and the USATF Distance Classic and with Worlds in Eugene im not sure what Fauble was clamoring for.
That was also the year that World's began in the 2nd week of July too. Between Pre (End of May), USAs (Middle of June), and Worlds (July 15th), going to Europe for a month to race in the middle wasn't exactly feasible.
Fauble taking shots at a 20 year old after the lowest moment of his career was such loser behavior, not to mention the only reason he didn't perform was the injury.
That was also the year that World's began in the 2nd week of July too. Between Pre (End of May), USAs (Middle of June), and Worlds (July 15th), going to Europe for a month to race in the middle wasn't exactly feasible.
Fauble taking shots at a 20 year old after the lowest moment of his career was such loser behavior, not to mention the only reason he didn't perform was the injury.
Imagine tweeting this and then the dude gets an historic gold medal at the next Olympics. It’s like a worst case trash talk scenario.
Hocker literally proved Fauble's point, which was that Hocker was underperforming relative to his immense ability, due to lack of tactical experience against true elites.
After blowing it on a big stage, Hocker spent TWO YEARS improving his tactical chops against actual elites in actual races.
Imagine tweeting this and then the dude gets an historic gold medal at the next Olympics. It’s like a worst case trash talk scenario.
Hocker literally proved Fauble's point, which was that Hocker was underperforming relative to his immense ability, due to lack of tactical experience against true elites.
After blowing it on a big stage, Hocker spent TWO YEARS improving his tactical chops against actual elites in actual races.
He applied this in Paris.
Fauble was prescient.
Same original tweet applies to Athing Mu. Lack of racing practice wasted her fitness and Olympic cycle. Meanwhile, Hocker, Nuguse and even Kessler benefited from racing more.
Hocker literally proved Fauble's point, which was that Hocker was underperforming relative to his immense ability, due to lack of tactical experience against true elites.
After blowing it on a big stage, Hocker spent TWO YEARS improving his tactical chops against actual elites in actual races.
He applied this in Paris.
Fauble was prescient.
Hocker was not underperforming due to lack of tactical experience. He was injured. Healthy and with more than an 8-week buildup he has won every USA qualifying race 3K and under (2021 OT, 1500/3k indoors 2022, 1500 indoors 2024, OT 2024). He also has never failed to advance in a Worlds/Olympics 1500 Heat/semis, further demonstrating his tactical skills even in injury-plagued 2022-3 season. His problem was staying healthy and not that he runs a time trial 5000/800/mile every now and then.
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Scott, who is best known in the running world as a guy who eats burritos, takes shot at 20 year old Olympic finalist, who later revealed he’s been not training for 2 weeks leading up to USAs.
Curious how he’ll walk this back today, or if he’ll make no comment and just go back to his usual state of being completely irrelevant.
I think Scott is implying Cole Hocker is a doping suspect without saying it to his face. Cole shifted otherworldly gears for the olympic 1500m final.
Completely agree with Fauble. Injury or not, whatever, protocol for all the Nike folks is to never race, but instead fabricate secret time trials, then somehow expect to magically know how to run 'tactical' races.
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