Cade Flatt -- BIG MISTAKE

Flatt is finished. Literally heard NOTHING from him in at least a month now.

we haven't heard anything from colin sahlman or gary martins in 2 months and no one is saying that they are finsshed

He didn't want an easy win.

That's due to their respective ages. If I don't hear from a teenager for a few weeks it's safe to say they're off having a wild time. If you don't hear from a 90 year old relative for 24 hours they're probably dead. That's why it's different for Ole Man Cade.

Flatt was .07 away from making the final at seniors, he finished the meet in 9th as the 1st out of the final. His experience there is going to help him 10x more than going to race slower people at U20s.

Would you seriously choose ".07 away from making the final at [US] seniors" over a medal (possibly gold) at a global championship?? lmao. A U20 medal would be on his resume forever. No one will ever care about the heat results of the 2022 US senior champs, ever. It's irrelevant.

Meanwhile, Willis, who had the sense to run Juniors, just picked up her second gold in the 4x4.

He is a teenager.

19 is only a "teenager" if you really stretch the definition of "teenager."

nineTEEN

I was CONFIDENTLY assured by another poster that Flatt had secured himself a >1million dollar contract with his 9th place performance at USAs, still awaiting confirmation on this.

Cade Flatt is only the 8th fastest u20 over 800m in the world this year. So no, he would not have been racing slower people.

The guy who won world u20 this year is a 1:44 guy.

The guy who finished 7th is also a 1:44 guy and a WORLD SENIOR indoor silver medalist (harder than USAs), the doha diamond league winner, the Kenyan champion, and a semi finalist in Eugene. In fact he did better at worlds than US current top 800m runners, Bryce Hoppel, Brandon Miller and Donavan Brazier in Eugene.

The guy who finished 4th is also a 1:44 guy

The guy who finished dead last in that final is a 1:46 guy, just like Cade Flatt.

So no, world u20 was never going to be easy work for him, in fact medaling at world u20 was probably way harder than making the final at USAs considering the level of US mens 800m running now, and considering the fact that even a world indoor silver medalist, kenyan senior champ and diamond league meet winner could not medal at world u20s.

I don’t know why you all like to denigrate world u20s so much, world u20s are never easy for anyone. Even a 12:43 Selemon Barega could not medal in the 5k at world u20s in 2018 just after running one of the fastest 5k of all time. World u20s are a real test, for anyone.

He spent an extra year in K-12

Cope and seethe more.

Even Usane Bolt ran World Juniors.

19 and change makes him 2 standard deviations older than average for a teenager.

Dream on. He wouldn't be running against peewee league high schoolers. He couldn't even handle himself against US runners and US is horrible at the 800. He would have gotten mauled by the fast closing Africans.

LMFAO literally nobody cares about world U20s. The only people who brag about their U20 success are the ones who have no success at the senior level.

In his 1st round race he was shoulder to shoulder with the REIGNING WORLD CHAMPION Brazier. He beat 1:43 guy Jewett. Hoppell is a 1:43 runner who was 4th in the world in 2019, Murphy has run 1:42 and has an Olympic bronze.

Plus it's August, he was racing hard since cross country. 10 months of racing is enough, 12 is overkill. Smart to peak in June, rest, then prepare to make the 2023 world championship team where he'll have a legit chance.

You’re right. He is a teenager. That said, he is a teenager that looks like he’s in his mid-20s at least. He has a the body of a man that is fully grown. He started shaving in the 3rd grade.