Official 2015 Monaco Diamond League Discussion Thread

TomorrowLand wrote:

Looks like a skinny Jacob Burcham

"Now he's made Bosnia... A better place to live."

Pretty sure he won an 800 a couple of weeks ago, maybe? 1:43.XX something - does anyone remember this? I remember googling him because had never heard of him. Damn great race. Nice to see new blood in the 800. Thought he had no chance to catch Amos; not sure Amos realized he was passed at the end.

rojo wrote:

Tuka 1:42.51!!!!

Hutchings "It's almost an unvelievable improvement".

Tha'ts basically the sentiment I had.

The state of our sport is when you come from nowhere to 1:42.51, the drug testers need to be ready. I was pumped to see that but my god was that unreal. Wow.

Great race.

Berian PBS!!!

rojo wrote:

Francena McCorory was utterly dominant in the women's 400. She had a massive lead at 300 and held on to win in a seasonal best and new world leader of of 49.93 (previous seasonal best and world leader was 49.95).

Quick Thought #1: How did McCorory not finish in the top 3 at USAs? At USAs, she ran the 49.95 world leader in the semis but bombed the final. Well, she didn’t really bomb it as her 50.88 would have placed her 5th tonight. She still could run at Worlds. If Felix doesn’t do the 200/400 double, McCorory will run Worlds and would likely enter it as the favorite.

Perhaps lack of fitness for that 3rd race, finals.

This Bosnian fellow had the race of his life, and a SMART race - ran even splits and passed those who blew their loads too early.

Not nearly as suspect or bizarre as Kiprop's performance. I'm sure we'll see something similarly sketchy from Dibaba.

waiting for a brojo prandini-schippers comparison

3...2...1....

was distracted but what happened to the lady in the purple top who stopped racing/jogged to the end in the 200???

kmaclam wrote:

Have you ever seen so many happy losers??? What an effort by Kiprop!

I agree. I thought everyone was happy and in awe of what Kiprop had done and were just congratulating him as a fan. I guess the fact that they all PRd made it a lot easier to be a good sport.

WHen is the last time in any distance race a guy led by that much at the bell? It's unreal how far he is head. No one can get that far ahead in a 5k on the circuit. Unreal.

First momentous occasion with rounds.

might be wejo wrote:

Boris Berian 1:43.34 shows he's not a one hit wonder. Curious why he sucked it up at USAs.

marble mouth wrote:

rojo wrote:

Tuka 1:42.51!!!!

Hutchings "It's almost an unvelievable improvement".

Tha'ts basically the sentiment I had.

The state of our sport is when you come from nowhere to 1:42.51, the drug testers need to be ready. I was pumped to see that but my god was that unreal. Wow.

Great race.

Berian PBS!!!

Check out his "Progression". I would love to know what he did in training to improve so much in a year!

http://www.iaaf.org/athletes/bosnia-herzegovina/amel-tuka-273168#progression

What you love to know is how often he was drug tested off season.

Montesquieu wrote:

First momentous occasion with rounds.

might be wejo wrote:

Boris Berian 1:43.34 shows he's not a one hit wonder. Curious why he sucked it up at USAs.

Yep.

Dafne Schippers and Jenna Prandini are now my favorite female sprinters by a longshot.

Beautiful, gracious, hard-working, and CLEAN. Hoping they both take home medals at Worlds.

Sorry if I bump and underscore this: 3:30.4 was tenth place. That's a 3:47 mile. Tenth place!!

Soprano wrote:

TAA wrote:

Another fun stat. Farah's 3:28.93 broke the WR for fastest 4th place.

Former record was 3:29.58.

Not surprisingly, a lot of the previous "best times for place" were from the 2014 version of this race. But many went down today. Best times for 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 8th, 9th and 10th now all come from Monaco 2015.So that's a complicated way of saying this was the deepest 1500m race ever.

One of the coolest imo distances coming up, a 3000m.

So, white athletes are just clean or you're being ironic?

1:43.84 @madrid

His previous PR came last year @European Champs 1:46.12

I concede. Dude must have been coming off a serious training block with some real fatigue lately to say he was coming into this at 70%. That was better than 100%.

.And the Winner is ... wrote:

Shoebacca wrote:

Men's 1500m will likely be a bust. Kiprop isn't in shape to run away with it. ...

POTY

rojo wrote:

It's unreal how far he is head.

You mean "It's unreal how big his head is"?

What a douche

what happened??? wrote:

was distracted but what happened to the lady in the purple top who stopped racing/jogged to the end in the 200???

She pulled her "I wasn't winning" muscle perhaps?

[quote]rojo wrote: [/b[

Quick Thought #1: How did McCorory not finish in the top 3 at USAs? At USAs, she ran the 49.95 world leader in the semis but bombed the final. Well, she didnt really bomb it as her 50.88 would have placed her 5th tonight. She still could run at Worlds. If Felix doesnt do the 200/400 double, McCorory will run Worlds and would likely enter it as the favorite.

Simple: McCorory ran a "statement" race in the semis and it cost her.

But given the result in the women's 4X100, it seems likely that Felix will be running both relays and the 200, and McCorory will run the 400. If Felix does not run the 200, the USA probably doesn't get a medal, and I hope the Mr. Kersee factors that in (and, yes, there is something going on there that I'm not going to talk about). With Felix doing the 200, McCorory gets a 400 shot, and the USA likely wins both.