No one talking about Sifan's weekend?

Best way to run a 15 the day after a record 10k is by saucing to the max. Lance Armstrong would be envious.

She has a good chance to double medal in the the 5000/10000 with 3:58 and 29:37. I think she drops the 1500 this year

I know people are still right to put Dibaba up there in the GOAT position, but I do think Sifan is the best all-around female runner of all time.

She is not just one of those (normal) elite athletes that runs the 500 in college and then moves up to a pro career of 5000/10000 before "retiring" up to the marathon on the roads. She is good all a distances simultaneously! This is ultra rare in the modern era! Amazing.

I’m surprised people aren’t talking about 18 year old Niels Laros running 3:38.34 off a 2:01 800 split. He went from 14th at 1,000m (2:29.6) to 4th, last 500 ~68.7, last 200 ~26.7, the fastest close in a field full of 3:31-3:34 types. Don’t be surprised when he runs 3:32 this summer.

I ran against his father when he was at UTEP. Was an extremely nice guy with an above average looking girlfriend.

Way too skinny and dripping in juice.

I'd like to see Sifan take a shot at getting her 10k WR back this year and becoming the first woman under 29 minutes.

10k/5k double makes the most sense for Worlds, but 10k/marathon would be cool. Doubt she runs the 15.

Since people have been talking about Hassan’s weekend, I guess I spun off on what it’s surprising people actually aren’t talking about.

Besides, ask Coevett: he’ll tell you that I’m racist against white runners.

You’re talking about it. Thanks for starting a thread. If you actually cared you would have posted about it yesterday. Or maybe even before the meet to build some excitement

Unless Sifan Hassan raced an incredible Marathon on (60 to 80) miles per week or modern 1500m training, there is no reason to expect a 1500m medal at W.C. this summer from her. If Sifan Hassan trained like a Marathoner over the winter, what we know about modern 1500m training: she ruined herself for 1500m. These unimportant meets do not tell the story. Racing three 1500m over five days against the best in the world is the only way to find out.

Well, we just saw that Hassan can run 3:58 on very tired legs, so I don't think I would count her out of the medals.

Of course, I don't think anyone in the world can touch Faith Kipyegon, but that still leaves two medals up for grabs. Laura Muir should be able to get one... does that mean Hassan could get Bronze or Silver, I think so.

Who do you think is better than SH besides FK and LM?

I doubt if she is interested in second or third. She already did that in the 1500 in 2021. Her 1500 PR was from 2019 and Faith has bested that 3 times since then. If she doesn't think she has a legitimate shot to beat Kipyegon why would she attempt the 1500? And she knows she can't beat her doubling back when Faith is fresh.

I think she runs either the 5K, 10K or both and the marathon.

Well, there is Tsegay for one. She has run more sub-3:55s than any other runner other than Kipyegon. She beat Muir to take silver last year. There are also some very talented and up-and-coming young Ethiopians, like Welteji and 17-year old Haylom - already with a 3:57 PR. There is a possibilty that Hassan could finish out the medals entirely, especially if she is running on tired legs.

Agree with the previous poster in that she has much easier paths to a medal than trying to match wits and kicks with Kipyegon. I think she will opt out of the 1500 like last year.

No one is talking about this bs because she’s obviously doping and everyone downvoting this are the ones who never learn. No one can recover the way she can clean. I’ll care about sifan when she gets popped

Seriously, she’s rubbing it in our faces at this point. I never knew someone could troll others just by running but that’s exactly what she’s doing with these absurd performances.

Faith's record is going to stand many years, so this was the better single weekend performance. Sifan's double over the weekend highlights her incredible range which few athletes can achieve at this elite level. Sifan's career performance will hard to duplicate as she is able to span more distances and will be hard to replicate once she has finished her career. I hope both are clean, but you never know in this day and age.