Uhhh, I wonder ....Fisher is faster than ever and has gone up another level, and already ended up an Olympic 5th in the nasty humid Tokyo final...and Klecker just beat him. I wonder why I would think that...
just saw how slow the race was. big win for klecker and i hope he is a contender...this results does nothing to suggest that tho. seems like fisher tried to do the least and still win or maybe he just cared about qualifying. unless he isnt 100% this couldnt have taken much out of him at all.
I'll tell you what it was, it was a 53.48 last lap finishing in 27:30. Barega finished with a 53.94 fin a 27:43 win last year. Please, GTFO with your hyperbolic BS w/Ethiopians. Fact is, their best is no better than either Klecker or Fisher.
I'll tell you what it was, it was a 53.48 last lap finishing in 27:30. Barega finished with a 53.94 fin a 27:43 win last year. Please, GTFO with your hyperbolic BS w/Ethiopians. Fact is, their best is no better than either Klecker or Fisher.
Lol what? For starters isn’t 53.9 in a 27:43 in hot and humid weather a little better than 54.9 in a 28:28 in nearly perfect weather? Didn’t two Ethiopians beat Fisher in that Tokyo race, one of whom won gold while the other just ran a dominating 12:50? And wasn’t Klecker 16th in that race, 31 seconds behind Barega?
(Yes.)
More to the point, the “hyperbolic BS” of closing in 52/53 in a 26:50 race was a reference to last year’s Ethiopian trials, when Barega, Kejelcha and Aregawi did exactly that:
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No, they can’t do it every time in any conditions, but that video is basically irrefutable evidence that they are capable. Looks like 52.high for both Barega and Kejelcha in a 26:49 race. (I vaguely recall reading that Barega’s last lap was 52.71, but I could be confusing things).
My over/unders for Fisher/Klecker/McGorty at Worlds would be something like 6th/11th/15th, and that’s not bad at all.