a regular guy wrote:
What a joke. Winning time 1:45 after a pedestrian first lap. It seems like nobody wanted to win.
Murphy and Amos - both very disappointing.
Yeah it wasn't a great final - it reminded me very much of Sydney (even down to the finishing time) - not much to discuss really, the disappointment and surprise for me was Clayton Murphy who by his standards ran very poorly. This was not 50.0 at the bell - you can not give the Olympic final field 8 meters and run in lane 2 the entire second lap when the field is running 51 seconds in that final lap. If Murphy runs the way Dobek does (huge kudos to him because he did this perfectly AND he's a relative novice in the event), then Murphy gives himself a chance.
Amos - no surprise. He has never been able to run slower races effectively. I can't understand why people back him based off the "well he's a 1.41 runner so in a slow pace..." logic - it doesn't work that way.
Yeah so not a vintage final - especially with Korir bobbing his head up and down a-la Paula Radcliffe in the final 30m - just lacked something but hey, maybe we were just spoilt by all those years of Rudisha making races kind of epic.