Timothy Cheruiyot goes home DEVASTED 4th at Kenyan 1500m Olympic Trials (race video)

Semiler wrote:

Renato Canova wrote:

What a group of idiots...

What about that kid that got Asics as a dedicated shoewear sponsor only to get busted running nikes in the first race?

Do you refer to Sondre here? (2nd pic)

runderrun wrote:

22twos wrote:

Respectfully disagree. Centro can’t run 331. Lewandowski is likely no longer capable of it. Hocker isn’t there yet. But in a 3:34 race all can potentially close faster than Kerr. Meanwhile, Kerr has shown he can solo that 331. Yes, he’ll give Jakob an easy win in this scenario. But nothing wrong with a silver.

More likely bronze. Wightman would sit on him and has a better kick. Wightman could also solo a 3:30. It's tough for Jakob, he's clearly the class of the field but can he front run a 3:28/29? The last thing any of the Europeans want is to make it a 3:35 race which brings the American sit and kick merchants into play. I actually think it will be a more exciting race without Cheruiyot

Agree with this. Ironically in many ways this might be a very bad development for Jakob. With Tim in the field it really seemed that he was a lock for a silver but now things get very complicated. We know Jakob has the fitness and strength but he really doesn't have the closing speed and kick; he needs someone to take it out for him which is what Tim always did. Will be a fascinating race, he needs to do what El G did in 2004 Olympics, that is, increase his speed every 200 metres -

Hahaha well I’d say Jacob and his fans are celebrating.

It definitely does not hurt jakob. That’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever read. He doesn’t need someone to take it out for him. He can take it out himself. This practically handed him the gold medal and it would be his own fault and a huge choke job if he fails to win it.

VroomVroom wrote:

It definitely does not hurt jakob. That’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever read. He doesn’t need someone to take it out for him. He can take it out himself. This practically handed him the gold medal and it would be his own fault and a huge choke job if he fails to win it.

I think jakob is very happy tonight, no doubt and for sure i was exagerating for effect, ans i reckon current circumstances make a gold medal more likely. But with Tim in the race I think medalling is more likely. I think if the race goes out slow like 5 yrs ago, there is a distinct possibility (maybe 20%) that Jakob is not top 3. However with Tim in the race no chance the 1500 is a jog fest and Jakob wins a medal. Maybe I'm wrong and Jakob easily wins but this makes it very interesting.

Concupiscurd wrote:

We know Jakob has the fitness and strength but he really doesn't have the closing speed and kick

I don't know why people keep saying that. Jakob can kick last 200m in 25s, he has before and now he is faster and more sharp than ever. You're not dealing with a kid Jakob, but rather a man Jakob.

He can make this a solo 3:29 run for the gold or he can make it a 3:34 sit and kick pain fest that he is still going to win. Time has come.

runderrun wrote:

22twos wrote:

Respectfully disagree. Centro can’t run 331. Lewandowski is likely no longer capable of it. Hocker isn’t there yet. But in a 3:34 race all can potentially close faster than Kerr. Meanwhile, Kerr has shown he can solo that 331. Yes, he’ll give Jakob an easy win in this scenario. But nothing wrong with a silver.

More likely bronze. Wightman would sit on him and has a better kick. Wightman could also solo a 3:30. It's tough for Jakob, he's clearly the class of the field but can he front run a 3:28/29? The last thing any of the Europeans want is to make it a 3:35 race which brings the American sit and kick merchants into play. I actually think it will be a more exciting race without Cheruiyot

Kerr did not run a solo 3:31. He was given even pace up to 900m, then run the last 600m from front. Wightman couldn't run a solo 3:30 either. His 3:29 pb was being dragged and paced every step of the way on the renowned fast track of Monaco.

This is a real shame. Timothy was one of the best bets for a Gold in any event regardless of Jakob's improvement. Makes no sense to leave off the best 1500M runner of the last decade because he was a second behind third place in the trials. I could not see any problem with the hamstring in the race. Maybe it affected his recent training. One bad race compared to total worldwide domination. Must be some crazy Kenyan Athletics political thing.

If anyone has watched Stewie Mcsweyn race a 1500m they will know he goes at it from the gun as he has zero kick.

So if you were to see say a slow first 200m in Tokyo You could bet your bottom dollar Mcsweyn would panick and launch himself into the lead and just drill it all the way. To his detriment most likely but hopefully means the fittest guy wins not just the best kicker.

Here are the results of 1500m of the Arab Championship that are help held in Tunisia (16 to 20 June 2021).

I would have hoped for a relief of the old Moroccan champions but it sound like I have to wait. The young Anass Essayi is not enough mature to play some important role. If he made it to the final of the Olympic games it will be an event.

https://www.worldathletics.org/athletes/morocco/anass-essayi-14805620

Results

1. Essadik Mikhou (Bah), probably a Moroccan name playing for the Bahrein

Time: 3:33.81

2. Abdelatif SADIKI (Ma)

DATE OF BIRTH 15 JAN 1999

Time: 3:34:54

https://twitter.com/arabathletics

don't have an English translated page

3. Anass ESSAYI (Ma)

DATE OF BIRTH 18 MAY 2001

Time: 3:35:59

So, so many stories of awesome Kenyans bombing at their trials because of the altitude. Daniel Komen in the same year he ran 7:20. The 7:20 was in response to being omitted from the squad.

Paul Koech in the same year he ran a 7:54 steeple. They say making it out of their trials can be harder than Olympic finals.

The Ethiopians do their 5k, 10k trials at sea level now and televise live, commercial free on YouTube!

Could the Kenyans change their mind and make Cheruiyot one of their entries before the Games start?

Footman wrote:

This is a real shame. Timothy was one of the best bets for a Gold in any event regardless of Jakob's improvement. Makes no sense to leave off the best 1500M runner of the last decade because he was a second behind third place in the trials. I could not see any problem with the hamstring in the race. Maybe it affected his recent training. One bad race compared to total worldwide domination. Must be some crazy Kenyan Athletics political thing.

It's quite possible that Athletics Kenya have decided that the whole Rongei group is doped, and they'd prefer not to have another humiliating situation where Tim wins gold and is then busted a couple of years down the line.

Passant wrote:

Here are the results of 1500m of the Arab Championship that are help held in Tunisia (16 to 20 June 2021).

I would have hoped for a relief of the old Moroccan champions but it sound like I have to wait. The young Anass Essayi is not enough mature to play some important role. If he made it to the final of the Olympic games it will be an event.

Damn, I was really sharing your hope that a new Ramzi would emerge from the shadows to add some dirty excitement to what promises to be the cleanest 1500m mens final for over 30 years.

We'll just have to hope that Big Mac is responding to the news that Tim is out by going absolutely full throttle.

If Big Mac wins, I guess we would have to put him in GOAT discussions.

It's a psych job. At the very last minute the Kenyans will put Tim on the team. We already know officials allow them to do pretty much whatever they want.

With or without Tim, we still have other versatile athletes. The good thing with Kenya is that time again we keep churning out new athletes ..

mbaihaule wrote:

With or without Tim, we still have other versatile athletes. The good thing with Kenya is that time again we keep churning out new athletes ..

So who is the potential breakout young star going to Tokyo? Kipsang? Rotich? There has never been such a paucity of young middle-distamce talent in Kenya. Kinyamel was one guy who appeared to be potentially .moving to another level and shining in Tokyo. Don't know where he came yesterday, but he's not in the team.

Ethiopian results:

https://i.ibb.co/YL1qv4Z/01.jpg

Your dumb conspiracy theory is ruined by Winny Chebet on the team. Maybe just maybe team Kenya is a really hard team to make. There is no grand conspiracy.