Oh my god that is such a gutsy performance! From the front almost the entire race!!! JESUS!
Oh my god that is such a gutsy performance! From the front almost the entire race!!! JESUS!
The best steeple strategy used to be sit and kick, because it is dangerous going over the barriers when exhausted. But after the NCAAs and this race, the steeple tactics have changed.
Jeruto looks almost anorexic but she does Kenya proud tonight for sure. Doesn’t matter who she runs for she is a Kenyan.
She fended off challengers from all comers in the last 400. Great race to watch. Yavi tried but couldn't break her. Yavi had a poor last water jump that put her out of contention. Was hoping to see her beat out the Ethiopians for a medal.
Did Jeruto say something to Yavi as they approached that last water jump? It looked like she gestured to her and said something . . . it was such an odd, bad water jump for her, but perhaps she had given about all she had to get on Jeruto's shoulder, and lost all momentum with that jump.
Yavi and her African style usually do not mess up like that. She did completely run past a water jump and another time went for a swim, early in her young career, but sadly this rare mistake happened in Eugene.
She just turned 22. Bright future ahead!
(had to post this using a "work around" as the mods banned me for what they deemed as a "personal attack" on Emma when I mentioned her career is over)