wow, Arop just absolutely mogged that entire field. wanyonyi burnt out from the 1500 win but is fit enough to hang on for second. hoppel looking solid in third and gourley 4th. the 1500 guys were never a factor. nuguse and hocker looked decent, both coming thru in 1:48 for 5th and 6th
So after this weekend who is feeling better about the 800 in Tokyo, Wanyonyi or Arop? Wanyonyi shocks us in the 1500 and he wins the slam AND his stock goes down??
This is an issue I'm noticing with the league. There needs to be more event groups if it wants to attract more athletes. There are 1500m guys that don't want to race the 800m and vice versa. There needs to be a 400/800 group, a 1500m/3000m group, etc...
Really reinforces to me that the 400m is a long sprint, the 1500m is a distance event (and so strength-based these days), and the 800m is really its own thing.
Also shows how much of freak Wanyonyi is (And any other rare athlete that is world-class at it and something else).
It shouldn't be that surprising. Kerr, Hocker, and Nuguse have never broken 1:45 and they're racing 1:41 guys. Just because those guys have good kicks at the end of championship 1500s doesn't make them 800 runners.
No he's not - he's not even remotely in race shape and he didn't care. Someone try and tell me he didn't mail that in? Weldon - you out there? He ran 1.50.7 - he didn't become a national HS level kid overnight - either he came into this meet not race fit and/or didn't care about the result.
I mean even Wanyoni didn't give it his all because he knew he had the money locked up - he didn't fight Arop at all there - he was looking around with 50 to go making sure he had his numbers right.
I don't see this "pinnacle of competition" at all? Or am I missing something?
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This is an issue I'm noticing with the league. There needs to be more event groups if it wants to attract more athletes. There are 1500m guys that don't want to race the 800m and vice versa. There needs to be a 400/800 group, a 1500m/3000m group, etc...
There needs to be no groups. Just have a 100, 110 hurdles, 200, 400, 400 hurdles, 800, 1500, 3k
Make it a two hour program, no dead time, invite big fields for the distance races, lots of prize money.
Would be so much better than this
Maybe. But I like the fact it makes athletes double, we need to see more of that. Seeing them step outside their comfort zone and show they can be good at other distances too.
Seems clear to me that these guys are just using this for an easy pay day. There's no prestige in this. Limiting the field to 8 was a mistake
100% this too. That's an issue for the longer distances like I mentioned before. That's why I think with the longer event categories like 1500m/3000m, you can get away with adding more people, up to 16.
TUrn the 3/5 group into a 15/5 group. All 16 guys can run in the same 1500 race.
No he's not - he's not even remotely in race shape and he didn't care. Someone try and tell me he didn't mail that in? Weldon - you out there? He ran 1.50.7 - he didn't become a national HS level kid overnight - either he came into this meet not race fit and/or didn't care about the result.
I mean even Wanyoni didn't give it his all because he knew he had the money locked up - he didn't fight Arop at all there - he was looking around with 50 to go making sure he had his numbers right.
I don't see this "pinnacle of competition" at all? Or am I missing something?
Gebriwhet doing what he should have done in the OLympic 5000m final. Quick pace and a huge gap.