Are there only four runners in the 5k Final? Besides the four that have been discussed - who might also show?
Are there only four runners in the 5k Final? Besides the four that have been discussed - who might also show?
You gotta like Loupez Loomango's chances
Personally, I hope he doesn't make it because if he wants to medal he should concentrate only on the 10k. He doesn't have the talent to medal in the 10k while competing also in the 5k.
BA wrote:
Why do so many of you spell his name Lamong? He's been around for years and you've probably seen his name printed hundreds of times. Yet I see people butcher it repeatedly. I can't understand this.
Agreed. It's rediculous.
Haymitch Abernathy wrote:
BA wrote:Why do so many of you spell his name Lamong? He's been around for years and you've probably seen his name printed hundreds of times. Yet I see people butcher it repeatedly. I can't understand this.
Agreed. It's rediculous.
Yeah...quit hack'n up his name.
I still think the best chance for Bumbi is to knock off Lomong. I think Bumbi is better than a dark horse.... I think he has a real shot.
Pressed, I would say Lagat, Rupp and Lomong make the team. But I don't feel like any of the 3 are as much a lock as people think.
If its a 13:00 race, than I think they likely are. But in a 13:20 race to 4000 , I think its very possible 1 of the 3 are left off the team. And in that case, I would go with Lomong as being odd man out.
If it comes down to even later in the race before it gets moving, the possible outcomes become merkier and merkier.
Just because Lopez has run 3:32 does not mean he will have an otherworldly kick in a fast race.
Well Ian Dobson was an olympian in the 5k, Heath showed a monster kick last year, who knows how doped up Mo Trafeh is, and so on. There are 2 guys clear of the field, 1 guy that has ton of potential but no experience and then the rest of the field sitting with PRs in the 13:15-13:30 range. I expect a decent pace (most guys need to run 13:20 still) but that is a close enough gap for most guys to have a shot to pull off a 10sec pr and make the team if one of the big 3 falters
Thread Follower wrote:
Are there only four runners in the 5k Final? Besides the four that have been discussed - who might also show?
disrespect wrote:
Personally, I hope he doesn't make it because if he wants to medal he should concentrate only on the 10k. He doesn't have the talent to medal in the 10k while competing also in the 5k.
You're going to have to explain this to me. How will running the 5K AFTER the 10K hurt his 10K performance? Provided that time keeps moving forward in a linear fashion, I don't see how something that happens days after the 10K will have any impact on the 10K itself.
No Rupp could win it in his sleep if he wanted to.
pac12fan wrote:
No Rupp could win it in his sleep if he wanted to.
Just like he did in the trials?
go on... wrote:
disrespect wrote:Personally, I hope he doesn't make it because if he wants to medal he should concentrate only on the 10k. He doesn't have the talent to medal in the 10k while competing also in the 5k.
You're going to have to explain this to me. How will running the 5K AFTER the 10K hurt his 10K performance? Provided that time keeps moving forward in a linear fashion, I don't see how something that happens days after the 10K will have any impact on the 10K itself.
Mighty big presumption you're making there, don't you think, Chief?
Really!??!?!?1 wrote:
Just like he did in the trials?
Assuming you mean prelim, you don't win a prelim. You just qualify for the next round or you don't.
Lagat, Lomong, and Rupp clearly are the favorites, but it seems as if there is almost always a wild card. When has a U.S. distance team gone exactly to form (aside from the 2012 10k!)?
This is an interesting post; it is unlikely Rupp will not finish top-3, but it is possible. Rupp will probably be unaffected by the 10K and 5k, those races for Rupp were probaly equal to a time trial for Rupp, Lagat and Lomong and they had 3 days to recover. With that said, Lomong will have to run the 1500 prelim earlier in the day and if for some reason that race ends up being something south of 3:40, there is no way he will fully recovered for the 5k.
With that said, Lagat is probably the favorite, it is a toss up between Rupp and Lomong. There is a big drop in talent outside of the top-3, but if the race becomes too tactical and there is a foot race to finish line, Rupp could be in trouble. With that said, Rupp and AlSal knows that if they run a 13:15 pace, anybody still left in the race beside Lagat and Lomong will be barely hanging on entering the last 600m.
You like that Rupp haters?
sharpen UP wrote:
hopdaiv wrote:I think Lomong will win the 5k. He miscounted his laps and stopped at the Oxy invite and ran 13:11 easily. Probably would have ran 7+ seconds faster even if he ran the whole time. Galen needed a professionally paced race at the Pre classic to barely break 13. Lopez has ridiculous sprinting speed from his 800/1500 experience and ran a world class debut 5000 time. I don't think Lomong is a wild card at all. If the pace is fast, which it probably won't be, he will be there; he ran 13:11 easily. If it's slow he can crank out a 52 second last lab to run 13:40. Either way he's going to be contesting for the win. My prediction is
1. Lomong
2. Lagat trailing lomong by a tenth of a second
3. Rupp trailing Lomong by 2-3 seconds
You are underesitmating Rupp right now by a long shot.
ehh-hem ^^