I had my eye on her before the commentators did - I knew once she moved to the 4th lane and sped up she’d take it. Excellent race for her and it’s good to see she has that top end speed to take on Moraa.
Almgren is a beast. This is what you get being Jakob’s training partner.
As an aside, Hocker continues his post-Olympics flop. Maybe it’s all the time in the pool.
Training with Ingebrigtsen is more likely to result in an injury than somehow raising someone’s ceiling.
Almgren has managed to stay healthier specifically because he responds better to the Norwegian method, before that he was injured practically every single season.
I can't believe Tim Hutchings called Mary Moraa a great tactician on the commentary.
I think she is an interesting one from a tactical perspective because she runs so strangely that athletes don't know what to do against her. Hodgkinson used to let Moraa boss her around on the track until last year.
But I wouldn't call Moraa a good tactician. I don't see the sense in going from first to last to first again in an 800. She's definitely entertaining though.
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.15 behind Sedjati in his first big DL race of the year does not strike me as one tier lower. You rightly have Sedjati in the same tier as Wanyonyi, yet the margin between Wanyonyi and Sedjati was bigger, .32. Hoey is also World Indoor champ.
Well Sedjati ran a highly conservative race as he’s wont to do. He’ll raise his level of aggression, but Hoey doesn’t have much of an adjustment.
Yeah, and this was a single race. Categorizing the 3 medalists from Paris who all ran 3-4 1:41s last year as “the big 3” hardly seems controversial.
A really poor result from Hocker. Hopefully, this was just the usual bad first Euro rustbuster or a result of a heavy training segment. Regardless, he's got three months to get his fitness right before World's. 7:23 indicated 12:40s ability.
Not in Hocker’s case. He’s a 1500m guy first and foremost, so he’s not going to run a 5k time that’s equivalent to his 3k. He’d do well to run low 12:50s.
I can't believe Tim Hutchings called Mary Moraa a great tactician on the commentary.
I think she is an interesting one from a tactical perspective because she runs so strangely that athletes don't know what to do against her. Hodgkinson used to let Moraa boss her around on the track until last year.
But I wouldn't call Moraa a good tactician. I don't see the sense in going from first to lat to first again in an 800. She's definitely entertaining though.
Yeah I agree she is not a great tactician at all. She has one race plan which everyone seemed to forget this year. Every race she does the same thing. It used to infuriate me that they’d let her go to the front then slow the race down then turn it in to a 400m race.
It actually took Keely a while to figure it out which was so frustrating. Georgia Hunter-Bell is the only one who had the speed (and endurance) to take her on in the home straight.
I can't believe Tim Hutchings called Mary Moraa a great tactician on the commentary.
I think she is an interesting one from a tactical perspective because she runs so strangely that athletes don't know what to do against her. Hodgkinson used to let Moraa boss her around on the track until last year.
But I wouldn't call Moraa a good tactician. I don't see the sense in going from first to lat to first again in an 800. She's definitely entertaining though.
Here is the sense, Jon:
-She is best off a slow pace. She gets first to hold everyone up from 150-400. Sekgodiso/Werro/Reekie are really good off an even sub-58 first lap and faster.
-Why go backwards from 400-500? It’s the turn. You either must run extra distance or get boxed if you fight hard for position in a slow race. It’s the same reason GHB waited and we’ve seen Arop wait to make a move.
-On the other hand the straight is a great place to move and then get the lead with 200 to go. She saves something for the last 100 to beat Sekgodiso/Werro
There are counters including just going by her at 150 or staying patient and trusting your kick. But anything in between is playing into her hands as she is faster in the last 100 and hard to get around.
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I gotta admit this crowd is certainly smaller than GST day 1 in Phiily as this stadium only seats like 14.5 k. But it looks better and their expenses are way,way less.
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