Mr Fauble, maybe try to be relevant in your own discipline before criticising?
Oh please. How many hundreds of people here are taking shots at people and they may or may not be “relevant in” their own discipline? Are you saying that a 2:08 or 2:09 marathoner needs to shut up when some of you 3:30 marathoners are quick to criticize anybody and everybody? Fauble has a right to express himself just like you do.
To be honest Scott is the only male American distance runner that’s done anything noteworthy lately. The track is boring if your’re not trying to take Jakob down right now. Dude crushed it in a couple marathons.
Not only was yesterday’s 1500m heats not boring, it was exciting just watching the race updates on my phone.
Scott needs to keep his thoughts to himself. He is not wrong to think this way. He is wrong to share these feelings at someone else’s expense. A week from now to tweet something generic like, I think many athletes would have had better results if they did more racing and less time trialing, he would have been fine. The timing was poor and making it personal is worse.
Scott needs to keep his thoughts to himself. He is not wrong to think this way. He is wrong to share these feelings at someone else’s expense. A week from now to tweet something generic like, I think many athletes would have had better results if they did more racing and less time trialing, he would have been fine. The timing was poor and making it personal is worse.
It’s dumb to claim that Hocker, who advanced through heats to win the OT and finish 6th at the Olympics, has suddenly lost the tactical ability beat guys in his heat that have PRs 4-6 slower than his because he ran some TTs this Spring. If he had been at 100%, and with his superior top-end speed, there’s no way he wouldn’t have easily qualified for the final.
I don’t understand why any importance given to comments made by a marathoner with a 3:46 1500m PR. He has zero experience in running 1500m heats at championship meets.
Cole Hocker invited criticism by showing no class after being eliminated. Why didn’t Hocker just explain to the media that he’s been injured?
He’s undoubtedly been focusing on this year’s WC since the end of the Olympics and was devastated to get eliminated in a heat. You act like it wasn’t a big deal. You’ve never been an elite athlete in that situation so how do you know what your reaction would be if you were him? After Rod Dixon finished 4th in 1976 Olympic 5000m, he went back to his hotel room and cried. Why did Hocker need to do an interview immediately the race that would have undoubtedly included some moronic questions?
Completely agree with Fauble. Injury or not, whatever, protocol for all the Nike folks is to never race, but instead fabricate secret time trials, then somehow expect to magically know how to run 'tactical' races.
Racing season is just getting started.
Are you saying Rupp (2 time Olympic madalist), Centro (Olympic champion) and Hocker (US champ and Oly finalist) don’t know how to run tactical races?
Scott, who is best known in the running world as a guy who eats burritos, takes shot at 20 year old Olympic finalist, who later revealed he’s been not training for 2 weeks leading up to USAs.
Curious how he’ll walk this back today, or if he’ll make no comment and just go back to his usual state of being completely irrelevant.
To be honest Scott is the only male American distance runner that’s done anything noteworthy lately. The track is boring if your’re not trying to take Jakob down right now. Dude crushed it in a couple marathons.
Not sure how you can put Scott, an average marathoner, above multiple other American distance runners who have ACTUALLY MADE national teams. Unless you were being sarcastic of course
Cole Hocker is world class. Scott Fauble is barely national class and never will be world class.
What class are you in? And how is Hocker world class if he can't make the semis?
That’s a typical LR response. Someone is only as good as his last race. Same thing with Mu when she couldn’t handle 4:20 mile pace in an indoor race. If Hocker hasn’t been injured, how could someone with his talent and experience not qualify from a heat where he had the best top-end speed and PR? Did he lose his talent in a poker game?
Cole Hocker is world class. Scott Fauble is barely national class and never will be world class.
What class are you in? And how is Hocker world class if he can't make the semis?
So you think that being 6th in the olympic final less than 12 months ago is not good enough to be world class? You guys want to hate so badly that you waited until he had ONE bad race and now you guys have so much criticism lol