This might be a fantastic time to rewatch his AMAZING Olympic-winning run, and to remind ourselves what a HUGE favorite Ingebrigtsen was, and what a dark horse Hocker was, to even win a medal at all.
Yep, a great race to remember. The seasonal buildup from indoors to this race. Best rabbit in the world making sure of it. When I saw Hocker at the Trials semifinal, I was like, uh oh...control. Dude was ready.
Don't count Hocker out in championship racing from now on. JI had some injury downtime but made a comeback and everyone knows he can run fast. That was his best chance/strategy. Kerr had a great season and just didnt have it the last few meters. Nuguse did everything he could to have a chance but lost a step on the last turn. Hocker just had his mind made up even after two tries. An alley opened and he had the best, last gear. Clear and away and he knew it. Goose ran out of track but his fate was sealed 150m out. Kerr needed just one more effort but didn't have it and Hockers momentum was timed perfectly.
Great RACE. Time trials with rabbits don't compare. Could have turned out 4 different order of finish and it still would have been a great race. Looking forward to the next one in Tokyo. Probably won't have everyone there, healthy but that's the nature of the game. New guy on the block, Laros. He should be the one to fear most.
LRC guys just have such bad grammar syntax? Why so many run on sentences? Can you write like me and complete 1 proper sentence after another and not string them altogether without any intermediate connectors. Your comment is as good as ZERO. We can't understand such bad English!
So what's your point? You add nothing of value to the sport by trying to emphasize negatives about the past vs pointing toward what is possible for the future.
How about asking if it's possible that even though he has no victories since, if he is capable of doing so again especially when it counts the most? Reality is that winning is very difficult and repeating championships is even harder.
I'm pretty sure most people would still consider him a contender based on his gold and that he's still roaming around the top 5. One thing is for sure: There is no for sure. There's probably at least 6-8 people that could win any professional mile/1500 race on the planet any given day. Most people enjoy that fact and anticipate the times when it will come to fruition.
You must watch a lot of Marvel movies and think there are different timelines and realities.
The point is that most fans expect an Olympic champion to win more than that one event in their career. He hasn't backed up that achievement. It makes his victory look like a fluke or that he was juiced to the gills.
Or win at least half the time in his specialty event the 1500m/mile. But we saw what the schedule was like this year for him, he is 0-7 or 0-8 for since Paris. That's like (1/100)^8 which is close to one in a billionth odds to string this series of losses. If anybody did the math, and I'm a math guy, there was no way Hocker could have reverse engineered a win in Paris from these odds if we could rewind time. As a result he was juiced to the gills which is the only explanation that fits with the math. I just hope LRC doesn't persecute any who comes in the name of the truth.
Cole Hocker did everything right on that day in Paris. He is the one who won the Gold Medal. No one can take that away from him.
The gold medal is a perishable object. Anybody can take it away from him or a snowstorm could bury it forever. You look foolish with this comment. A true champion will tell you they don't actually pursue a perishable object or and end outcome, they instead pursue the ethical process of dedication, commitment, discipline and hard work and fruits of success.
Hahaha! His juice was better than the other guys. I see now.
So, what's the number of races he should have won since then that makes your weak point acceptable to anyone? 1....3...more than half? Now, where's your data that proves your theory to be 100% accurate. Idiot + Liar = Fool.
Hahaha! His juice was better than the other guys. I see now.
So, what's the number of races he should have won since then that makes your weak point acceptable to anyone? 1....3...more than half? Now, where's your data that proves your theory to be 100% accurate. Idiot + Liar = Fool.
Since he has lost something like 0-8 in the 1500m/mile I would say he needs to win 6/8 at least. Compared to the win rate of others like Josh Kerr it's close to 100% and if Hocker wants to be in the conversation nothing less than 6/8.
It's math, not data, you are the real idiot who can't multiply the odds.
Yeah, well what's his record against Kerr in Olympic 1500 finals? You know, the one that matters? Again, you don't get a do-over just because your guy got run down and couldn't finish the job. No gold for 1490m. Sorry it's bothering you this long. Seek help.