Wise Old Man wrote:
John Scott wrote:
Their main event is too competitive to risk it.
They should all channel their inner Hassan and be brave. Warholm, Benjamin, Syd, Muhammad.
Everybody is too cautious about cultivating their gold medal. KW and the women have them already, so now is time to something beyond. Let's see a 400/400 h double or for KW, an attempt at the 400 h/800. I wonder whether KW or JI would win an 800 against each other. The sport needs more of this sort of thing to increase the excitement level. Athletes going out of their comfort zones. Fans will love it.
Agreed. But the race schedule would need to be altered to allow for a 400/400h double.
That said, with the impact of global pandemics only increasing, I don’t know that there will be many more international competitions of any kind in the near future. Hassan made the right decision: Go for it now. No waiting, no calculating. There is no guarantee of a tomorrow.