cool kid wrote:
You know, I just realized we were basing Jager's entire medal chances off of
ONE RACE
whoops. We were all pretty dumb.
um no. We were basing his medal potential off of his last 3 races.
cool kid wrote:
You know, I just realized we were basing Jager's entire medal chances off of
ONE RACE
whoops. We were all pretty dumb.
um no. We were basing his medal potential off of his last 3 races.
huling beats jager for the first time since...years ago? jeez
they had a bet going for a while last year of 2yrs ago where both guys grew out their hair and if huling ever beat jager, both would get haircuts.
No he didnt - but Huling did.
Jager as a 3:32 guy and even that did not look that hard, should have no trouble moving late with elite Steeplers. It is not that complex no matter what people try to make it, some days you just do not have it.
Jager was lucky to get in to the finals anyway, any time you run it that close to a NON Q, you are tempting trouble.he should have walked away in that pre lim and could not ot would not.
Jager and Briech refused to make the pace fast when faced with guys like Kipruto and Kemboi. It's exactly what was expected to happen on that last lap
Bill Walker wrote:
Peaked at his PR race.
joho wrote:WTF happened to Jager?
This. As was commented at the time, that was a career race. This was not a good one for him, but he was never good enough to medal today.
NJ Possible wrote:
lol, Quigley and Infeld jokingly call Shalane 'Mamma', she has helped them more than you can know in their young International careers.
illegitimate wrote:I'm sure she didn't mean it that way. Extremely, totally graceful.
She normally is, and I'm a fan. And I get that she's just crushed and speaking from a dark emotional place, but she put Infeld down, and that wasn't her only crappy remark.
Meanwhile what's with Shalane acting like Infeld's mom? It's not like Infeld is 14 and Shalane has nothing to compete for individually any more.
Peaked too early maybe?
Anyway got up at 6 AM for this so back to sleep
This. Evan needed to run around 8-flat pace to take the sting out of them (like he did in Paris). That's his ONLY CHANCE of winning. How can he and Jerry not know that after all these years???
woodstock wrote:
Jager and Briech refused to make the pace fast when faced with guys like Kipruto and Kemboi. It's exactly what was expected to happen on that last lap
corrections wrote:
cool kid wrote:You know, I just realized we were basing Jager's entire medal chances off of
ONE RACE
whoops. We were all pretty dumb.
um no. We were basing his medal potential off of his last 3 races.
Or, the last couple of years.
Much is being made of Huddle's faux pas as the line. However, Infeld ran a smarter race throughout. Whereas Huddle ran in lane 2 much of the race and went back and forth with whoever was leading, Infeld stayed on the rail almost the entire time back in 10th-12th pace and no doubt used much less energy going into the last lap. Emily looked better than Huddle the entire last 200, and raced a 10,000, not a 9,995 like Huddle.
Kemboi = greatest steepler of all time. End of discussion.
TJ wrote:
This. Evan needed to run around 8-flat pace to take the sting out of them (like he did in Paris). That's his ONLY CHANCE of winning. How can he and Jerry not know that after all these years???
woodstock wrote:Jager and Briech refused to make the pace fast when faced with guys like Kipruto and Kemboi. It's exactly what was expected to happen on that last lap
Jager had nowhere near 8 minutes in his body this championship.
I certainly would have preferred to see more American winners after dragging myself out of bed at 5:30AM but there were still some good races this morning.
Anybody know what the final 400 was? For jager and for all the Kenyan cheaters?
TJ wrote:
This. Evan needed to run around 8-flat pace to take the sting out of them (like he did in Paris). That's his ONLY CHANCE of winning. How can he and Jerry not know that after all these years???
So the plan is to run near WR pace with 4 veteran Kenyans behind you?
I think he should have made a move with 2 laps to go, but c'mon! Kemboi ran close to 26 seconds from 300-100m to go, while flying over barriers. Jager would not have beaten him even if he was allowed to just run on the flat track for the last lap.
Jager ran a good race, this thing is just damn near impossible for a non-Kenyan to win.
Nope.. wrote:
TJ wrote:This. Evan needed to run around 8-flat pace to take the sting out of them (like he did in Paris). That's his ONLY CHANCE of winning. How can he and Jerry not know that after all these years???
Jager had nowhere near 8 minutes in his body this championship.
NO kidding. It was not about race strategy. Evan just did not have it today. Maybe he peaked too early in the season or something. Had he come here at his peak he could have nabbed a medal off of any strategy.
But wait! He's only the 6th fastest all-time, and he didn't run close to the world record in this race! How could he possibly be the best all-time?
Jager didn't have it today, for likely the same reason Rupp couldn't even run a sub 4 mile a few weeks ago, the same reason Mo races sparingly and often collapses for no apparent reason.
Swiss wrote:
Don't think a faster race would have helped much. He had nothing on that last lap...
Yeah, he started to look a bit flat/tired going over the barriers pretty early on.