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Now that she has set a new PB in 5000 (15:00.48) in the WCh heats by running solo effort at the front almost from the gun what do you thing are the future for her?
Remember she's just 19 years old at the moment
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Now that she has set a new PB in 5000 (15:00.48) in the WCh heats by running solo effort at the front almost from the gun what do you thing are the future for her?
Remember she's just 19 years old at the moment
faded really hard at the end, dont know why she went with that tactic in a heat, she should have saved that effort for the latter stages
agatay wrote:
faded really hard at the end, dont know why she went with that tactic in a heat, she should have saved that effort for the latter stages
She went through 3k in 8:54, and ended up running 15:00. That's barely a fade.
She went with the tactic, because she knew she had no chance of out-kicking at least 10 of the other women.
I'm sure she's much happier than every other woman who didn't have the guts to employ the same tactic. It turns out jogging a few laps, and then getting spat out the back in the inevitable burn up, is a fairly dissatisfying way to run.
At the interview she said that the original strategy was to keep with the pack if the pace was decent. But she changed her mind once she saw that the pack was too slow. Even though she struggled the final two laps seems the courage paid off.
she could have just easily stayed with the pack, now the entire field will know not to go with her in the final
astro wrote:
No. The OP brought her name into it. Well then excuse me for pointing out unpleasant realities. European sports have a very lax attitude on the subject. European cycling fans were not upset that Armstrong doped, just that he doped better than their heroes. They still think Pantani, Indurain, Contador, etc were clean. I enjoy bashing Kenya (it deserves it), but who are we kidding? I see a pro European based distance runner and I can cynically assume the rest of the story. Italy is one of the worst doping offenders in the whole world. Anyone want to argue that Battocletti is clean given her miraculous Olympic year progression and the fact that her coach was busted for doping in 1999? Anyone going to pretend that Koko ran sub-15 in 2017 on pure talent because German sports are so pristine? Or that British distance runners are beyond scrutiny when GB athletics decided to emulate Spain from the 1990s and you have the Team Sky debacle? Or heck that Jakob can beat the East Africans naturally when they are doped to the gills to begin with?
Look pro US distance runners dope. Sometimes blatantly like Houlihan. That is the reality of the sport. But the doping incentive system for US distance runners tends to be put off by the NCAA safe harbor for a few years. With US sprinting where high school/college sprinters can run world class times earlier and Olympic glory is already within reach, the pressures start earlier and you get college doping scandals like Ross. Once a distance runner starts running professionally, the pressure and incentives start. If European distance runners are professionalizing earlier, then the game starts earlier. Just commonsense. Anyway that is just a general comment. Downvote, upvote. Don't care.
Ah another naïve doping endorser pretending to be anti doping.
agatay wrote:
she could have just easily stayed with the pack, now the entire field will know not to go with her in the final
The top women can easily go with her for 5k…. And then another 5k
Is she 18.99 or just 12th grade 18?
Sounds like an all time best
agatay wrote:
she could have just easily stayed with the pack, now the entire field will know not to go with her in the final
And tell us, what happened to every other runner with a PB outside 15 minutes that stayed with the pack?
They didn't make the final - that's what happened.
She was ranked 13th in her heat going in, and she finished 4th - purely because of the way she ran.
The women racing for the final four automatic spots behind her (Cranny, Eisa, Monson and Koster) had PBs 30 seconds, 47 seconds, 44 seconds, and 16 seconds faster than her. It's safe to say, she wouldn't have out-kicked them. But by giving herself a head start (running evenly from the gun), she was able to stay clear.
Surely you aren't so thick as to not understand that?
gorun wrote:
It’s all fun and games until she toes the line with tuohy, valby and company!!💪🤘
And she runs a 14:43, Valby runs a 14:58 and Touhy brings up the rear in 15:13.
The splits they were showing were leader to leader still near the end and they were 72s and 74s, so I don't think that she was slowing much. It only looked that way because Tsegay and others were coming for her really hard and had dropped the pace way down. Monson did most of the work to bring the pack toward her. A really courageous run. She reminds me of Zola Budd.
Yes your heads up your rear!👍
It is stupid to run slow behind strong athletes. You don't make final and are left with time much slower than pb.
Agate is very smart and that was only way to make final as she simply doesn't have sprinting speed for fast finish. Her best ever 200m time is 29s.
Also, there is 72h gap between races, You can recover to 100% for final.
From 40 runners, she had 24th best PB and SB and she made to top16. For example, Norwegian runner with 30s better PB goes home devastated. Because, she doesn't think