He was on the road to be a decathlete pretty long, but the people he was working with tried to make him go over to hurdles. Amongst them was Andreas Thorkildsen (2x olympic gold, 1x wc gold, 3x wc silver javelin). I think some of the anchor points was that he was lagging behind on throwing.
Cheers for the response. Well that decision has definitely worked out well for him which is great but pretty impressive how much talent he had at such an early age!
I’m a D2 female runner. Our coach explicitly told us not to visit LetsRun forums.
Great interview with Steve Cram - says Jakob has no chance of WRs this year
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RENATO can you talk about the preparation of Emile Cairess 2:06
adizero Road to Records with Yomif Kejelcha, Agnes Ngetich, Hobbs Kessler & many more is Saturday