Comes 2nd in the US Olympic Trials after front running a ballsy race and dedicated this race to his late brother and his mother got to love a good story
Comes 2nd in the US Olympic Trials after front running a ballsy race and dedicated this race to his late brother and his mother got to love a good story
What a gutsy run. How is no one commmenting about him yet?
What a beast. He might end up being my new favorite American runner if he keeps this up.
Gutsy for sure. It's good to go out like that especially since he doesn't have much to lose he's still so young. I think we were expecting him to take it out, but was not expecting him to gap them like that and put in multiple surges in that final 400m.
hobbyjogger18 wrote:
Gutsy for sure. It's good to go out like that especially since he doesn't have much to lose he's still so young. I think we were expecting him to take it out, but was not expecting him to gap them like that and put in multiple surges in that final 400m.
I think his tactic broke Brazier. He wasn't prepared for such a fast pace. Jewett separated the contenders from the pretenders.
He looked like he could win the Trials at NCAA’s last week. Also racing at Hayward 2 weeks in a row certainly helped. He had the form and fitness. Then the guts to take it from the front like that!
Fight On!
I was totally expecting him to crash around 500 but he just kept ROLLING I thought he was gonna win until the last 80 or so
Incredible performance through 600 (50.6, 25.06) of 1:15.66 and he held on admirably. That third 600 is special. Few 800m runners can push it like that from the front off of a fast pace. Rudisha was one. It took Murphy running the second best race of his life to chase him down.
Nice run indeed!
Florida Boy wrote:
I was totally expecting him to crash around 500 but he just kept ROLLING I thought he was gonna win until the last 80 or so
Same. I thought he almost tied up at 550 or so. What a run, for him, and the others.
Gotta say, Jewett is pretty awesome!
And he's run a $hitload of races over the last month between Pac-12 Championships, NCAA Regionals and Finals (including a 4x400 leg). He just shows up every time he's on the track.
OH HELL YEAH! It would have been great if he had won wire to wire.
Iron Bars wrote:
OH HELL YEAH! It would have been great if he had won wire to wire.
Insane. He can run 1:43 low no doubt about it. Insane splits, unreal
Incredible effort.
It was like he started to tire at around 450 and just decided to blast through it.
Really amazing. This thread should have 200 posts by now.
Every time I thought he was going to die he just pushed it even harder. What a beast
After that race I told my husband that there had better be a thread titled “Isaiah MF Jewett” LR did not disappoint.
anyone else find it odd that the announcers called him the "young upstart" when jewett (24) is older than both brazier and hoppel, only two years younger than 2016 olympic medalist murphy... ?
age cheat? wrote:
anyone else find it odd that the announcers called him the "young upstart" when jewett (24) is older than both brazier and hoppel, only two years younger than 2016 olympic medalist murphy... ?
It’s fine to call the college athlete a young upstart. He’s technically an armature athlete.
And no reason to bring negative emotions into a great story.
I’m super excited for him, wherever he can go. And his performance today truly is world class!
age cheat? wrote:
anyone else find it odd that the announcers called him the "young upstart" when jewett (24) is older than both brazier and hoppel, only two years younger than 2016 olympic medalist murphy... ?
Not really. No, it's not totally accurate based on age, but I just take "young upstart" to mean "new upstart" or "new to the world scene upstart."
I like Jewett a lot - seen him a lot these past three weeks and cool story, seemingly good and very positive dude who is happy for all his opportunity.
Obviously just based on the times from NCAAs and this trials final, he potentially has a promising future.
Will be interesting to see where he lands as a pro and how a coach might alter (or not alter) his front-running tendencies. It's got to be hard to do all the time at the world level, but at the same time, he doesn't seem like a runner who is going to hang way back. I have no idea what would be the best strategies for him as a pro.
grumpyoldman wrote:
And he's run a $hitload of races over the last month between Pac-12 Championships, NCAA Regionals and Finals (including a 4x400 leg). He just shows up every time he's on the track.
This is the same thing that Hoppel did in 2019. Winning lots of races in NCAA helps develop 800 tactics and confidence. Jewett should get to the Olympic final, then who knows?
No scholarship limits anymore! (NCAA Track and Field inequality is going to get way worse, right?)
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