Official Rome DL Discussion Thread - Lights set at 12:35 in Rome - Will we see a world record? (Reaction show at 5 pm ET)

This is giving him too much of a pass. It’s not that he went at 600. He had a gap and blasted it. If he runs a measured 400 segment there hes not dying at 200 to go, and he has a little something for when Jakob comes up to him. It’s unlikely he wins but his execution of his strategy was just bad.

Nah, the 5000 WR is Jakob's to take - he just needs to go for it (and get pacers capable of going through 3k at the intended pace, which are few and far between)

(An aside here: I would love it if Jakob targeted this record in that absolutely minor stadium in Norway where Henry Rono broke the 5000 record)

But as you know it is quite challenging to execute in the moment, but easy to critique. One might feel a bit desperate to try the old Hail Mary when facing Jakob at 5000m.

Awful pacemaking again here

These women need to learn how to back off liek the men and not fight for position in the first 200. The firs 200 was too fast.

Why does Jakob run all these diamond leagues? Why doesn’t he just stay in Norway and get the organizers for the bislett games to set up multiple attempts at various distances. Feel like the travel is limiting him. He could break the 5k record rn and maybe even the mile.

Diamond League is the current top pro circuit. It runs EVERY YEAR from April til September.

Other than building a break into schedule for Olympics or Worlds, there is no connection with championships.

This is same for Golf, Tennis, Soccer, Cycling, Skiing, Hockey, WNBA etc.

what in the f--- is she doing? You have one job and its never been easier. I don't get that I wouldn't be paying her a cent for that.

they're not as smart. it's science.

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Kipyegon’s race was very similar to Jakob’s race in Lausanne. Not interested in WR so just chills and blasts 100m.

btw that right there is in a nutshell why womens MD running has seen such a jump in performance since wavelight came along - imagine all these races with Kipyegon if she just had to rely solely on the quality of human pacing which has always been utter dogsh-t in the womens events for no explainable reason. That right there was a throwback to the bad ol'days.

I'm actually somewhat excited for Michael Johnson's league because it incentivizes racing with the points system, not times. The commentator just said "you can forget about the world record, it's a race now"...that's the thing, in pursuit of world records, the Diamond League doesn't produce distance races, they're just time trials. They come close to world records maybe 10% of the time, and they set world records probably 1% of the time (maybe a bit higher in current super shoe years). I don't blame the citizens of Rome for not caring much about distance time trials.

Jakob is trying to maximise his 1500 ability because it's the hardest to get and also the most time-pressing. A 5k WR attempt would jeopardise his recovery.

He has potentially years to mess around with the 5K. With the 1500 he might never reach his form from this season again.

Yeah I agree with this. Obviously Nanyondo was bad, but part of it is that crazy scramble to go sub-30 at 200.

Actually there are other reasons for the jump in performances that are probably even more important.

Tebogo cruises to win in 9.87

tebogo is everything lyles wishes he was

Probably a 9.8-low for tobego if he runs through the line