Here I 100% agree with you. The tendency to hype up people to hard isn't good, they are being set up for guaranteed failure. A 9th is really good for a runner (almost) without international merits. And its a great start for Klecker!
Here I 100% agree with you. The tendency to hype up people to hard isn't good, they are being set up for guaranteed failure. A 9th is really good for a runner (almost) without international merits. And its a great start for Klecker!
I have no idea why anybody would think that Joe Klecker would be around at the the finish. The U.S. currently has only one world-class distance runner, male or female, and Joe Klecker ain't that person. At any rate, he ran as well as I thought that he could. Well done, Joe.
9th place, 11 seconds behind the leader.
At least I got one thing right.
You expected him to be a little higher? Who finished ahead of him that you would expect him to beat? All the guys ahead of him are significantly better. I think he ran well, and won his race. I said in the thread he should aim to be the best of the rest which is what he was. He beat Worku, McGorty, Gressier, and Kwemoi, all guys with better PBs than him. Klecker is trending upwards and ran a good race. He should be happy with how he performed.