Put this man on the team, Kenya!
Put this man on the team, Kenya!
That should,hopefully,stop the stupid big mouths thinking the US actually have a chance at Tokyo.
habs wrote:
That was a great race. Timmy C definitely takes the edge over Ingebrigtsen for me now for Oly gold, also great run from Katir who has to be a medal threat now
If Kenya lets him run.
Difficult to say what the sickness did to Jakob's time. That kind of stuff can have you off for a few weeks. Might be just enough time to recover for the games.
paris2024hawk wrote:
3:28.28 by cheruiyot
No way Potato Tim doesn't go to Tokyo after that. Jakob might opt to only run the 5k.
duck sauce wrote:
Couldn’t go back and check but did mcsweyn refuse to shake jakobs hand?
No, Jakob bumped fists with him. Are you the guy who thinks Wightman and Kerr have 'beef' for the same reason after the trials?
birdbeard wrote:
habs wrote:
That was a great race. Timmy C definitely takes the edge over Ingebrigtsen for me now for Oly gold, also great run from Katir who has to be a medal threat now
If Kenya lets him run.
Katir is only in the 5000m.
3:28/12:49 guy now
everybody knows wrote:
40 yo ftw in javelin!
I didn’t even know that Spotakova was still competing
Lewandowski drops the Polish NR another 1.04 seconds. He's a racer. The DL pace races aren't where his greatest strengths are. Racing for medals is where he thrives. He'll be in the thick of things down the stretch in Tokyo.
Jacob looked very flat. I would honestly take Centro or Hocker over him in a kick finish.
birdbeard wrote:
10 of the top 12 ran PBs. PB for Tim, too.
Sowinski is probably the best pacer on the circuit.
He was 54 and 1:50 for his first two laps, so the people behind him were 55 and 1:51.. Great way to start off a sub 3:30 1500... I bet they pay him pretty well for that, maybe he'll stick around a couple more years and make the money from pacing, and just enough racing to still run US championships and keep some sort of a contract. I wouldn't be shocked if he calls it quits after this year though, at age 31 and not running as fast the past few years as he used to.
Kerr and Wightman would surely have both run under 3:30 in that one.
Birkoboy wrote:
That should,hopefully,stop the stupid big mouths thinking the US actually have a chance at Tokyo.
i think someone could medal. depends on the type of race. i am not sure tim c can win like he did in 2019 anymore, McSweyn, Katir, and Jakob are all too good for that. If it goes a bit slower I could see an American sneaking through for a medal.
Never would have thought Centro would medal in 2011, or Manzano in 2012, etc.
I cannot see wrote:
3:28 for Cheruyiot and 3:28 for the Spaniard - a 5 second PB?! Jakob and McSelwyn 3:29
Great race, Cheruiyot better today, a 5s pb for the morocco-Spanish is completely nuts, McSweyn national record. Craziness.
dffff wrote:
birdbeard wrote:
If Kenya lets him run.
Katir is only in the 5000m.
3:28/12:49 guy now
Big medal favourite in a 5000m championship race surely
Hardloper wrote:
jamin wrote:
I'm sure the ladies who ran PRs / NRs off that pace aren't complaining
No one went with the pacer, it was completely useless.
But by trailing the pacer by ~1.0-1.5s they still got through in ~56 instead of ~57.5 and then had someone to chase, leading to faster time, I claim
dffff wrote:
birdbeard wrote:
If Kenya lets him run.
Katir is only in the 5000m.
3:28/12:49 guy now
Officially the fastest Mo at both distances now. Katir > Farah!
Vancomycin wrote:
Jacob looked very flat. I would honestly take Centro or Hocker over him in a kick finish.
He still closed in a 54 over his last lap to run 3:29... And people keep going crazy over Hocker closing in a 52.5/53.0 to run only 3:35.2??? And Cheruiyot just closed in 53.7 to run 3:28... So his kick at the end of a 3:28 still rivals Hocker at a much slower 3:35... I used to think they had a shot, but I just don't think they're going to get it done.... These guys who are closing in 53/54 to run sub 3:30 will be able to close equal of better than Hocker in a 3:35 race. Obviously Cheruiyot can close faster than 53 in a 3:35 race if he can do 53 at the end of a 3:28 race.
Props to Jakob for running. You could see he wasn't right almost from the start. Tim will be worried that, unlike him, when Jakob has a niggle or a few days off, he can still run 3:29. He'll be in 3:27 shape in Tokyo.
Did you watch last 1500 Olympic final? Was is a fast race or a slow, tactical race, like a championship race usually is?