Cristian Soratos thinks he is going to beat the King in the Mile

Well, it didn't work for Alan Webb but Webb is no Soratos. He would have lost regardless but maybe it would have been closer if he followed Mahkloufi's example

oh please wrote:

reader of the forums wrote:

He ran a good race and got beat by someone who drafted off of him until 150m to go.

He probably could have outkicked Edward off of a slow pace, but is not good enough to run away from him.

Right, because Soratos has how many championship wins? Must just be a string of bad luck huh?

I don't know how many championship wins he has or even what year he is. The answers to these questions irrelevant to the question you posed.

oh please wrote:

oh please wrote:

Yea so what happened to Soratos?

Oh, Soratos, great championship racer that he is, thought at 26 second 200 in middle of the race was the way to go. Meanwhile, true championship racer Cheserek said "thanks for the ride bro."

Soratos' move DESTROYED everyone except a kenyan man in a college race, and who will probably run 3:50-3:52 this summer. Soratos not only broke everyone else in the field, he broke the defending champion. What happened to Soratos.... that's what happened.

I wouldn't try and over float this idea that Chez is a more of a man than Soratos.

If you see/speak with Chez up close you will realize he is his stated age.

Soratos looks fully mature, himself.

Soratos also could have taken it from the gun and run a 3:55 and probably won.

Everyone was annointing Soratos some new mile god, he went wire to wire in the prelims, then he dogs it at the start of the finals; he could have made it an honest ballsy race...he should have!

Did you even watch the race? His 53.3 400 from 600 to 1k actually made it exciting and interesting.

A Duck wrote:

I wouldn't try and over float this idea that Chez is a more of a man than Soratos.

If you see/speak with Chez up close you will realize he is his stated age.

Soratos looks fully mature, himself.

Soratos also could have taken it from the gun and run a 3:55 and probably won.

Everyone was annointing Soratos some new mile god, he went wire to wire in the prelims, then he dogs it at the start of the finals; he could have made it an honest ballsy race...he should have!

I doubt he could have run 3:55 leading from the gun. Even if he would have by the looks of it today Ches would have run 3:54.9 and won.

A Duck wrote:

I wouldn't try and over float this idea that Chez is a more of a man than Soratos.

If you see/speak with Chez up close you will realize he is his stated age.

Soratos looks fully mature, himself.

Soratos also could have taken it from the gun and run a 3:55 and probably won.

Everyone was annointing Soratos some new mile god, he went wire to wire in the prelims, then he dogs it at the start of the finals; he could have made it an honest ballsy race...he should have!

you can argue tactics all you want thats fine. The only people annointing were the press and they were doing it to build a story. but come on man all these kenyans... i have no problem with them competing in NCAA, but if anyone thinks they are of age....

A Duck wrote:

Soratos ... could have made it an honest ballsy race...he should have!

Um, did we watch the same race? I can't recall the last time I saw someone react to the slow start of a championship mile by just blasting off and daring everyone to follow the way that Soratos did. And he ran everyone out of the picture except Cheserek, which takes some doing.

Actually, I CAN recall the last time I saw someone do that. His name was Alan Webb, you probably remember the guy?!?

My take on it is that was a brave move, fast thinking on his feet, excellent racing. Eric Jenkins can at least partially thank Christian Soratos for his 3000 win, because that last 1000 had to gunk up Cheserek's legs something fierce.

sc42 wrote:

Actually, I CAN recall the last time I saw someone do that. His name was Alan Webb, you probably remember the guy?!?

Yeah I remember him for clowny shenanigans like this:

It's a tactic that says "I know I can't win this so I'm going to pretend like I 'went for it' by doing something ridiculous mid-race."

He had to do something unconventional to try and beat Cheserek, and he did just that. Waiting until the last 200 would had been just stupid.. I think Soratos made a bold and smart move to try and suck the kick out of Ches early. Although it didn't work out, it was definitely admirable.

dfasfdsdddd wrote:

sc42 wrote:

Actually, I CAN recall the last time I saw someone do that. His name was Alan Webb, you probably remember the guy?!?

Yeah I remember him for clowny shenanigans like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abxUL7zz1nI&t=2m

It's a tactic that says "I know I can't win this so I'm going to pretend like I 'went for it' by doing something ridiculous mid-race."

Actually, it's much more like what Webb did to win the 2004 Olympic Trials, when he put in a major and sustained gear change at 750 meters.

Soratos didn't bust a 100m that no one else followed (as Webb foolishly did at Worlds). He ran a 1:51.24 800m from 609m to 1409m.

Also, both Cheserek and Rotich had to match Soratos's splits, so he didn't put himself at a disadvantage as Webb did at Worlds.

Rotich broke, Cheserek didn't. So it goes.

Footnote: Gregorek closed in 26.63 to win the pack dash for fourth. I would rate him the number two American collegian at 1500m right now.

sc42 wrote:

Actually, I CAN recall the last time I saw someone do that. His name was Alan Webb, you probably remember the guy?!?

dfasfdsdddd wrote:

Yeah I remember him for clowny shenanigans... It's a tactic that says "I know I can't win this so I'm going to pretend like I 'went for it' by doing something ridiculous mid-race."

Oh. I remember him better for holding the AR in the mile and winning DL races. Do you seriously not think Soratos was going for the kill?