Great to see Leah Falland bounce back from the trials and run 9:16.96 to slice nearly 2 seconds off her PR after all her hard work. Finishing 4th in the Stockholm Diamond League. Congratulations to her.
Great to see Leah Falland bounce back from the trials and run 9:16.96 to slice nearly 2 seconds off her PR after all her hard work. Finishing 4th in the Stockholm Diamond League. Congratulations to her.
Correction, she finished 5th.
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She ran well, and with a nice kicking battle at the end. I wonder where Frerichs and Cochran would’ve slotted in. Best guess is Coburn second in 9:05ish with Frerichs losing to Krause in a kick .
Duplantis had to wave the photographers off the track as they were oblivious to the women steeplechasers on the track.
Leah is about at the same level Krause was at 4 years ago. Krause looks ready to contend at Tokyo.
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Well she was running for 3rd right… here she had pacing help, and could not manage much faster than Constien ran. She ran over her head in Eugene but perhaps her best chance was to do that over staying with the pack. We don’t really know.
juvie wrote:
Leah is about at the same level Krause was at 4 years ago. Krause looks ready to contend at Tokyo.
Krause won a bronze at worlds already 6 years ago. Admittedly, it was a slowish race (and the overall level and depth have considerably increased since then) but she performed about 3-4 places better than would have been expected. This is because she is the tactically the smartest of all the steeplechasers and would never have risked going at a pace clearly too fast for her like Falland.
Today this showed again with the leaders going out at a sub 3 min first k while Krause ran more evenly and caught Chepkoech at the last barrier. But she is not as strong a runner as Coburn and some of the Africans, so she could be dropped by too fast a pace (it was tight in Doha where she was quite a bit behind a medal position until the last lap)
Unless a 8:50ish pace is forced and kept from the beginning, she will be in contention.
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THOUGHTSLEADER wrote:
She ran well, and with a nice kicking battle at the end. I wonder where Frerichs and Cochran would’ve slotted in. Best guess is Coburn second in 9:05ish with Frerichs losing to Krause in a kick .
That is your "best guess"? Did you miss seeing the Olympic Trials, or every other race(except one) where Emma dusted Frerichs?
THOUGHTSLEADER wrote:
She ran well, and with a nice kicking battle at the end. I wonder where Frerichs and Cochran would’ve slotted in. Best guess is Coburn second in 9:05ish with Frerichs losing to Krause in a kick .
No. Jerry turned Frerichs into a 9:15 steepler .
Most people believe that Leah is really talented but freezes in the biggest moments.
Today did nothing to change our minds.
I meant more whether Frerichs would beat Krause or Emma would beat Kiyeng.
Things that make you go "Hmmm" wrote:
THOUGHTSLEADER wrote:
She ran well, and with a nice kicking battle at the end. I wonder where Frerichs and Cochran would’ve slotted in. Best guess is Coburn second in 9:05ish with Frerichs losing to Krause in a kick .
That is your "best guess"? Did you miss seeing the Olympic Trials, or every other race(except one) where Emma dusted Frerichs?
Do you know what place Krause got? Do you know what one place behind her would have been compared to a hypothetical Coburn getting second? I know basic math can be hard, but please try to think before posting.
Yes. Nice run and PB for Leah. So happy for her and continued success!
That said, how does Mel Lawrence continued to be a sponsored athlete and get in these big races. She ran 9:30, pretty pedestrian theses days for elite steeplechasers. It seems she has not had any type of breakthrough in years.
How does falling over a barrier constitute freezing ? She was on point in her semi and the final to get to Tokyo. Evan jagger and Coburn have both had falls such as this in huge races.
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Interesting.
Leah's not as good as I thought.
Nice PR, but not Olympian material.
RIP: D3 All-American Frank Csorba - who ran 13:56 in March - dead
RENATO can you talk about the preparation of Emile Cairess 2:06
Running for Bowerman Track Club used to be cool now its embarrassing
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Hats off to my dad. He just ran a 1:42 Half Marathon and turns 75 in 2 months!
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