Still Waiting wrote:
" I mean Murphy two weeks ago was the Olympic favorite."
Only in the minds of Letsrun Americans who seem to think the rest of the world doesn't exist. According to your podcast the winner of the USA trials were favorites in 100 200 400 800 110h 400h etc
At the US Olympic Trials, Murphy ran a then 2021 world leading 1:43.17, and with negative splits. It may have been presumptuous to proclaim him the Olympic favorite in such a volatile event as the 800m, but it was not absurd and it was not necessarily ignorant of the rest of the world.