ShilohDoesntCare wrote:
sherlocker wrote:
Well he’s arguably not much better than Prefontaine when you factor in the shoes and even faster tracks of today. And relative to the rest of the world he is worse than Prefontaine was. And how old is he? Is he about 25 or so?
This is the correct take. He's not on the same level when you factor in the eras and he's not on the level of the best in the sport which Pre was in his time. He's got a bright future though and if he races anything like this against the pros I'll be rooting for him bigtime. Didn't he run something like 2:01 for the first 800 in that indoor 5k? He is not soft.
I hate when comparing older runners and new and someone alwasy bringing up that "X "older runner was closer to the WR or more relevant on the world stage. There is a reason that those comparisons don't work for runners of the present The Last somewhat relevant distance Ncaa runner on the world stage was Lawi Lalang in my opinion