Who's making the Canadian Olympic Team?

The real question is what was a 12:47 guy doing in a 3:40 1500 last night

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I'm assuming Ben Flannagan would go for the 10K where the standard and competition are both a bit more lenient.

Additionally, Ryan Smeeton at Ok State is at 8:33 right now in the steeple and mostly racing against collegiate crowds. If he can get in some higher caliber racing, I don't think it's out of the question he can take 11 seconds off his time

Smeeton and Prouse can make the team with or without the standard

lke_4:25 wrote:

The real question is what was a 12:47 guy doing in a 3:40 1500 last night

Bowerman said on instagram it was strictly a rust buster for Moh and to test some speed, although I believe they haven't touched that yet, doing lots of strength and tempo work at altitude.

Any of these worth betting as a long shot to win gold? I feel like throwing 10k down on a Canadian because they're nice but perhaps it's a better option to put it on Bekele to win the marathon. Or both.

STEVE THE ADDICT^^^^^^"""""""" wrote:

Any of these worth betting as a long shot to win gold? I feel like throwing 10k down on a Canadian because they're nice but perhaps it's a better option to put it on Bekele to win the marathon. Or both.

Tough. I'd say no bona fide good shot of a gold - but the very slim hope candidates:

I'd say best odds would be on Ahmed in the 5000m. Still a long shot, but the guy was 2sec off of gold in Doha despite getting clipped by Jakob three + times. Would probably require someone ahead of him to have a bad day, but he's got a better shot than the rest.

Melissa Bishop-Nriagu might have a shot. The 800 is an utter crapshoot. She'd be lucky to get a medal, but so as long as you can run 1:58 you might have a shot - case and point Halimah Nakaayi winning gold in Doha with a PB of 1:58. She's got bags of big race experience, so who knows. Another long shot, but depending on how the chips fall - a shot.

GDS needs to find another 4 seconds of fitness/probably have one of the big guns drop the ball/injured/fall.

Womens Marathon - Dayna locked in by nat champs auto Q. Elmore and Wodak going to go as next fastest. Tough on Cliff but them's the apples.

Seccafien needs to get standard for the W10000 - she tried in Australia but only got 31:45 but gets another kick at the can this weekend. No Canadian currently has standard or is in a ranking spot I believe. I imagine Wodak does the marathon.

The potential wrinkle in the W5000 is if Kate Van Buskirk gets standard at Sound Running. She's got a ton of talent/experience but had a laundry list of injuries over the years. I could see her running anyway from 14:5x to slower than 15:30. If she gets standard though then you have four women with standard, and theoretically all with PBs within ten seconds of each other. Could be a tasty champs if they happen. GDS won't do the 5000m I imagine. She's on the startlist for Sound Running in the 800m. If she were doing the 5 I doubt Schumacher would pass on an opportunity for her to race/get dragged by Hassan.

M5000 - not as tight as W5000. It's Ahmed - daylight - J Knight - daylight - Lumb/Flanagan. Ben is in real tight right now rankings wise. He's only 8 points safely ranked. He also neither has standard nor ranking for the 10000m.

Kelly right up against it in the W800 too. Probably a good example of how broken the system is - compare Kelly and Butterworth.

Butterworth: PB 2:00.30, SB 2:00.50 - 2018 Nat Champ

Kelly: PB 2:00.59, SB 2:00.59 - 2019 Nat Champ.

2021 Head to Head - 1-1.

Practically inseparable, yet Butterworth sitting in the 16th qualifying spot (of 48) while Kelly is in 46th. That's not a knock on Lindsey, just that Kelly is getting shafted by not being sponsored/having an agent.

No Cam Levins???? Is he injured?

Levins and Emily Setlack are running the S7 Marathon in Austria on May 23rd in a last minute attempt to bump some of the above mentioned runners (Woodfine/Wodak I guess). May 23rd to August 7/8th is a tight turnaround between marathons should either of them make it.

Not looking good. No trials race for the 10,000m. If we can’t even host a trials, how can we expect to send a team?

“The Province of British Columbia is currently under a Provincial Health Order to help stop the spread of COVID-19. Under the order, high performance athletes who were not already training in B.C. are asked not to enter the province for the purpose of sport, including the 10,000-Metre Championships, therefore, making it difficult to host the event as originally planned. The province is expected to revisit the Provincial Health Order the week of May 25, and Athletics Canada will issue an update shortly thereafter about the status of the event for non-residents and those who were not training and/or residing in B.C. at the time the order was issued.”

Big results from this weekend.

Andrea Seccadian - New CDN record and olympic standard

W 5000m - KVB sub 15 in her season opener

Melissa Bishop-Nriagu - close to standard in the 1500m

Legit question. Cam runs 2:10:15 this weekend. Olympic Marathon is in a little less than 11 weeks. Who do you pick?

Evan Dunfee posted this nice graphic of who has standard/in rankings for each event,

https://twitter.com/EvanDunfee/status/1392678368299020288

. Note, it needs a fair bit of updating after the weekend.

Anybody have a link to the rankings of the 48 qualifying spots in each event?

More big results this weekend

Debues-Stafford 800m 1:58.70 - Will she double? 800m/1500m? or 1500m/5000m?

Natalia Hawthorn 1500m 4:04.47 - So close to Olympic Standard

Kate Van Buskirk 1500m 4:05.39

Andrea Seccafien 5000m 14:57 - Will she double? 10000m/5000m

Julie-Anne Staehli 5000m 14:57

Jean-Simon Desgagnes 3000m steeple 8:24

John Gay 3000m Stepple 8:23

Luc Burchet 5000m 13:22

Ben Flannagen 5000m 13:20

Hofbauer + Levins + Woodfine.

As great as Preisner's debut was it was done at The Marathon Project so you have to add 2-3 minutes to compare it to a standard marathon.

Big Time Dingo wrote:

Hofbauer + Levins + Woodfine.

As great as Preisner's debut was it was done at The Marathon Project so you have to add 2-3 minutes to compare it to a standard marathon.

Mr. Ding Bat:

2 to 3 minutes?? Huh? The course was short? I call BS on this one. It was a certified marathon on a certified course.

Team is picked & announced today:

Elmore

Wodak

Pidhoresky

Levins

Priesner

Hofbauer

Bob received a lifetime suspension for illegal use of American beer (<5% octane).

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Doug McKenzie

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