Nijel amos is back 1:42.91!!!

Back on the sauce, obviously. Was running 147 without it.

STEVE THE ADDICT^^^^^^""""-""""--'-"--^' wrote:

Back on the sauce, obviously. Was running 147 without it.

You and everyone else accusing these runners of doping are stupid.

[quote]STEVE THE ADDICT^^^^^^""""-""""--'-"--^' wrote:

Back on the sauce, obviously. Was running 147 without it.[/quote

In 2020 ?that was an off year he's been consistently under 1:44 over the years

love amos. incredible athlete. his lap splits are always interesting though. seems like he always takes it out WAY too hard and then fades a lot but he's so good he still pulls it off sometimes.

Anything can happen in the 800 but I think your olympic medalists will come from the top 4 today.

....and there is Michael Saruni.....the Kenyan champion.

Similar style to Rotich…Korir looked like his old self today.

whjjjjj wrote:

STEVE THE ADDICT^^^^^^""""-""""--'-"--^' wrote:

Back on the sauce, obviously. Was running 147 without it.

You and everyone else accusing these runners of doping are stupid.

Haha what a ridiculous comment. If you think these guys and gals are clean, then I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you, moran.

koyPond wrote:

whjjjjj wrote:

You and everyone else accusing these runners of doping are stupid.

Haha what a ridiculous comment. If you think these guys and gals are clean, then I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you, moran.

Why even watch the sport then??? If you're convinced everyone is on the sauce, then either advocate for all athletes to dope to the gills and get the elephant out of the room, or stop wasting your time watching something that only causes you to be a snarky and angry person. What a waste of time and energy and your life, frankly, to invest yourself in a sport you think is dirty from top to bottom. Of course you're clean, though. Right?

Shocked I tell you again wrote:

koyPond wrote:

Haha what a ridiculous comment. If you think these guys and gals are clean, then I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you, moran.

Why even watch the sport then??? If you're convinced everyone is on the sauce, then either advocate for all athletes to dope to the gills and get the elephant out of the room, or stop wasting your time watching something that only causes you to be a snarky and angry person. What a waste of time and energy and your life, frankly, to invest yourself in a sport you think is dirty from top to bottom. Of course you're clean, though. Right?

Exactly. The “fans” of this sport do nothing but kill it.

Shocked I tell you again wrote:

koyPond wrote:

Haha what a ridiculous comment. If you think these guys and gals are clean, then I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you, moran.

Why even watch the sport then??? If you're convinced everyone is on the sauce, then either advocate for all athletes to dope to the gills and get the elephant out of the room, or stop wasting your time watching something that only causes you to be a snarky and angry person. What a waste of time and energy and your life, frankly, to invest yourself in a sport you think is dirty from top to bottom. Of course you're clean, though. Right?

Nijel Amos, nice guy, but came close to a suspension for missing tests, can't remember how he wriggled his way out of it. He went from something like 1:49 to 1:41 at 18 and then didn't run 1:41 again until 7 years later.

Tim, nice guy, but the two other fastest Kenyan 1500m runners of the last decade are currently serving anti-doping suspensions. Both were good friends of Tim, and one was his closest training partner.

Katir, nice guy, but 8 second improvement in the 1500m and 1 minute improvement in the 5000m at age 23 in 6 months stinks of EPO, especially when a Spanish Moroccan like him belongs to easily the most statistical likely demographic on Earth to be busted for doping. Time will tell I guess.

As for your question- why watch the sport, millions don't any more. I stopped watching it for nearly 20 years. Much more of this and I'll probably stop watching again.

Yes, by a slight margin, but it's a wide open race where anything could happen. Is there anything more gullible than believing that the odds are really in anyone's favor? They could run this field 5 times and get 5 completely different results.

My prediction at the start of the year from was Amos of Botswana, Korir of Kenya and Arroyo of Puerto Rico.

Also, I just really thought it would be cool for Puerto Rico to win a medal, now it could be Nigel Amos, Emmanuel Korir, Ferguson Rotich, Oliver Dustin, Amel Tuka, Elliott Giles, Clayton Murphy, Marco Aprop, or Bryce Hoppel are in the pool of people who could get a medal by my estimate.

My current prediction before today was

Elliott Giles, Emmanuel Korir, Bryce Hoppel, Andres Arroyo, Clayton Murphy, Marco Aprop, Furgeson Rotich, and Brandon McBride

I say that because I thought an upset by a Brit would be kind of cool, I like Korir's versatility and that he came through the college system and I've always liked Bryce. Clayton's already got a medal, he doesn't need two and I don't like the guy. I'm always a fan of PR athletes. I also think Aprop and Rotich simply will be in the mix and McBride--it would be cool to have some consistency from one field to the next. If I'm not mistaken the 2016 final only overlapped two people with the 2012 final and generally the overlap is only 1-3 for each WC and Olympic final, so I think if someone like Tuka gets 8th, it'll just look bad but if McBride does it, he'd appreciate it more and I'm all about wanting combinations of finishers that make people happy.

whjjjjj wrote:

STEVE THE ADDICT^^^^^^""""-""""--'-"--^' wrote:

Back on the sauce, obviously. Was running 147 without it.

You and everyone else accusing these runners of doping are stupid.

Actually we are smart. You are ignorant. Remember when it was uncovered that everyone in the tour de france was doping? Now every runner is doping but a lot are as a certain culture has been established at the top where if you cant beat em, join em. It would be frustrating to lose to dopers you know you'd beat on a level field, the transition is made tempting by this reality.

STEVE THE ADDICT^^^^^^""""-""""--'-"--^' wrote:

whjjjjj wrote:

You and everyone else accusing these runners of doping are stupid.

Actually we are smart. You are ignorant. Remember when it was uncovered that everyone in the tour de france was doping? Now every runner is doping but a lot are as a certain culture has been established at the top where if you cant beat em, join em. It would be frustrating to lose to dopers you know you'd beat on a level field, the transition is made tempting by this reality.

He is smart and you are ignorant. You have zero evidence to support your ridiculous claims.

But it's ok, as long as you are happy.

Does Amos like pork burritos?

whjjjjj wrote:

STEVE THE ADDICT^^^^^^""""-""""--'-"--^' wrote:

Back on the sauce, obviously. Was running 147 without it.

You and everyone else accusing these runners of doping are stupid.

Ignore the confederate debris.To their chagrin there is no

balloting in athletics,you don't get elected to the podium

and the stop watch is too color blind to recognize white privilege.

Probably would have lost ATL meet tonight.

There’s bo evidence Tim had a real relationship with Kiprop. In fact the coach specifically said Kiprop did not have the attitude required. Are you extrapolating from sportsmanship? His training partner Manangoi missed tests while injured and owned up to it. Tim could be doping I have no idea but I see little suspicious from him.

STEVE THE ADDICT^^^^^^""""-""""--'-"--^' wrote:

Back on the sauce, obviously. Was running 147 without it.

Exactly! 1:49 to 1:42 in a year. Yeah right.

2021 1:42.91 Stade Louis II, Monaco (MON) 09 JUL 2021

2020 1:49.23 Portland, OR (USA) 08 AUG 2020

2019 1:41.89 Stade Louis II, Monaco (MON) 12 JUL 2019

2018 1:42.14 Stade Louis II, Monaco (MON) 20 JUL 2018

2017 1:43.18 Olympic Stadium, London (GBR) 09 JUL 2017

2016 1:44.66 Olympic Stadium, London (GBR) 22 JUL 2016

2015 1:42.66 Stade Louis II, Monaco (MON) 17 JUL 2015

2014 1:42.45 Stade Louis II, Monaco (MON) 18 JUL 2014

2013 1:44.71 Stade Olympique de la Pontaise, Lausanne (SUI) 04 JUL 2013

2012 1:41.73 Olympic Stadium, London (GBR) 09 AUG 2012

2011 1:47.28 Lille (FRA) 09 JUL 2011