"My goal is focused on being #1, I don't really understand why I would shoot for less than that"- Cole Hocker

1) You ae confusing accomplishments from different eras with determining who is better.

2) Picking up global hardware has NOTHING to do with who is better. The world could have 10 guys better than both Centrowitz and Hocker over the next 15 years so that Hocker never wins a thing, but that has NOTHING to do with how Centrowitz and Hocker match up against each other.

Hi Flaggy! What are your thoughts now?

Is it vitally important to you to prove Flagpole wrong? Is he wrong? Hocker's career is not yet over, is it?

Is it vitally important for you to ask me whether it is vitally important to prove Flagpole wrong?

If he doesn't have health issues he will break 13 minutes for 5,000...assuming he targets the 5,000 and doesn't just only run it as a workout or test of his fitness. He remains a special talent and he should be able to easily break 13 minutes.

The objection is that you assert things as if they are inevitable. These things you assert are not inevitable. Superspikes and Hocker still may not run faster than Centro and of course even if he does, it would not automatically render him a better runner. What you think you know is not necessarily true. You need others to point this out.

What a weird comment.

Why do you guys jizz all in your pants anytime someone makes statements like this?

In a sport where the objective is to win, it's hardly revolutionary that someone is aiming to do it.

Everyone is aiming to be number one - it's called a race.

In the history of the world, only 11 non-African born men have broken 13 minutes for 5,000m (outdoors), and you think he's a certainty?

The obsession with time is the greatest hilarity on this site.

It is absolute buffoonery

Titles and medals can be divided by time and have 7 figures to spare

Literally. Winners get paid by sponsors and acclaimed by the public.

Guys with fast times have long expired contracts and dozens of obsessed goofs who have memorized every irrelevant digit

Cole Hocker aiming for #1 when George Manangoi and Justus Soget STILL BREATHE OXYGEN.

Delusional.

The olympics isn’t just another meet where it only depends on the competition on that day. All that goes Into winning on that day that arrives once every 4 years is incredible and the title of best in the world isn’t earned in one day .

You should shoot for less than that so that you can stay healthy and improve.

Eamonn Coghlan was the greatest indoor miler ever.
He won 75% of his races.

He ran 3:49 on a crappy indoor track that took 10 laps to run a mile as a world record that lasted 14 years. Not surpassed until El Guerrouj, the greatest overall miler broke it on a modern 8 lap track.

World Champion at 5000m.
Two Olympic 4th place finishes.

If Hocker is another Coghlan, that would be great.