No, I didn't. You can't follow an argument. My point is that apart from Juantorena (and Kratochvilova) we haven't seen a runner reach the top at both distances in over 40 years. We have seen that with 1500 runners like Snell, Coe and Ovett, but they, too, have become a rarity in recent decades.
Coe had a sweet spot at 800M through one mile (although his 400M 46.87 is really fast), he ran 1:41.73 for 800M and 3:47.33 for the Mile, both World records at the time. But beyond those distances his time really fell off, maybe because he didn't run them that often. He ran 7:54.32 for 3000M and 14:06 for 5000M.
Juantorena was built more like a 400M runner and was an outlier as of course he was great at 800M as well. Something we will probably never see again. I don't really want to get into a discussion on Jarmila Kratochvílová here as she was a suspected PED user.
Unless we are discussing today's obvious dopers, it isn't naturally possible for an 800/1500 runner to also be as good over the longer distances.
I know there have only been 15 sub 1:42's and that list is dominated by Rudisha and Kipketer, but still I have no answer?
So dominated by two Kenyans.
And 7 of the fastest 11 Kenyan 800m performers in 2017 have received suspensions due to better testing.And the only guy (another East African) to run under 1:42 busted.
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