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Beats one of the greatest 10000 runners planet has seen. All of a sudden US has two guys that can medal in the distance! McGorty close behind
Joe Klecker has arrived
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Took 12 years, but we finally have another duo worthy of a Rupp/Solinsky rivalry. So excited to see how Joe does at Worlds now.
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New arrivals wrote:
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Beats one of the greatest 10000 runners planet has seen. All of a sudden US has two guys that can medal in the distance! McGorty close behind
in what world has that performance made you think Klecker can medal anywhere at 10,000?
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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...
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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.
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BrainCell wrote:
New arrivals wrote:
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Beats one of the greatest 10000 runners planet has seen. All of a sudden US has two guys that can medal in the distance! McGorty close behind
in what world has that performance made you think Klecker can medal anywhere at 10,000?
Klecker won with a fast last lap off of a slow tempo run. In no way did he prove he is at Fisher’s level.
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Has he worn On shoes yet? I know some of that group has while others are still in Nike.
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SDSU Aztec wrote:
BrainCell wrote:
in what world has that performance made you think Klecker can medal anywhere at 10,000?
Klecker won with a fast last lap off of a slow tempo run. In no way did he prove he is at Fisher’s level.
Wasnt even a particularly fast last lap either, 54.9. Ethiopians are closing their 26:50 races in 52/53.
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Saudi Golf League wrote:
SDSU Aztec wrote:
Klecker won with a fast last lap off of a slow tempo run. In no way did he prove he is at Fisher’s level.
Wasnt even a particularly fast last lap either, 54.9. Ethiopians are closing their 26:50 races in 52/53.
Oh? What was the final lap of the 2016 olympics? How about 2020?
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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.
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Fisher was probably training through this race so he can peak at World Champs
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oh brother. wrote:
Fact is, [the Ethiopians] best is no better than either Klecker or Fisher.
You don't really believe that, do you?
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oh brother. wrote:
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: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.
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Is the race uploaded anywhere? Would love to watch it
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