Deanouk wrote:
Salvatore Stitchmo wrote:
I have Brazier unofficially and roughly off the clock at 60,59,58 and 37.xx for his 3.35.85
No. Your splits add up to 3:34.**
Brazier did not run the last 300m in 37.**
He went through 1200m in 2:57.5, meaning his last 300m was 38.4.
His splits were 60.6, 58.6, 58.3, 38.4 (52.2. 25.4, 13.2)
or 46.4, 58.6, (1:45.0) 58.7 (2:43.7)52.2 .
Comparable Championship races with similar splits would be:-
Kiprop 2015 World Champs - 60.5, 59.0, 56.9, 38.0 (51.7, 25.4,13.2) for a 3:34.4
OR - 45.0, 59.5, 58.2, 51.7
El Guerrouj 1997 World Champs - 61.1, 61.0, 54.1!!, 39.8 (52.5, 26.6, 13.5) for 3:35.8
OR - 44.8, 62.2, 56.3, 52.5
Bile 1989 World Cup - 58.4, 61.2, 58.3, 37.7 (51.5, 24.9, 12.7) for 3:35.6
with Coe on - 57.9, 61.3, 58.5, 38.0 (51.7, 25.1, 12.9) for 3:35.8.
Brazier's run was very impressive, especially considering it was a TT, but others have finished faster in a 3:35 in a lot more traffic.
Oh Deano, for christs sake you miserable British contrarian tw@t. It was merely making a point about the quality of his run.
I didn't even bother to get on a stopwatch and time his splits to the tenth because it's not the point - I simply guessed the splits from the clock on the screen and what I thought was him going through 1200 in maybe 2.58ish. Oh well I ended up being half a second off (from 37.XX to 38.4) - congratulations, well pointed out.
I would hope others have finished faster in a race with considerably much more on the line - I think we can safely ascertain that Brazier wasn't exactly at his max as he nonchalantly looked over his inside shoulder twice in the final 120m and walked strong and tall off the track to the infield when he was finished. Your point about traffic? Meaningless. The only guy who made a constant mess of his positioning and needed to negotiate crazy amounts of bodies was Kiprop because he is an idiot and was/is on drugs. Otherwise I never saw El Guerrjou (ever) have to go round multiple bodies in the final lap of a 1500 after Atlanta and Coe went past 1 guy in 1980 (Straub) after sitting unimpeded in 2nd the entire race, in 84 he only had to go past Abascal and in the World Cup he only had to go past some dude representing Asia I have never heard of. So Brazier had to negotiate more "traffic" in this TT than all of them.