This guy has the most arm-pumping full form of any 1500m runner I've ever seen. He runs like a triple jumper with a 1500m runway!
This guy has the most arm-pumping full form of any 1500m runner I've ever seen. He runs like a triple jumper with a 1500m runway!
Wise Old Man wrote:
Watch the 2019 women’s 1500 final in Doha. Swap out Jakob for Hassan. That’s how Budapest is going down. Katir is well suited to run like Kipyegon in that race and go for silver. Jakob is going to wreck them all, string them out and strength will determine 2nd and 3rd place. All the people who don’t think Jakob can win from the front, just a reminder that Hassan stayed out of trouble at the start, took the lead by 300 m and never relinquished it. That’s what Jakob is going to do next month. Hassan’s front running 3:51 high in that race will be like Jakob doing the same in 3:27 high. Katir certainly could run 2nd in a Jakob rabbited race in 3:28 high, low 3:29. Not saying this is certain, but it’s not going to be a kicker’s race at the end. It’s going to be a hang on for you life race.
Hassan ran it that way because she was scared of one person. Jakob isn't worried about anybody in particular. He knows that a consistently rapid pace steadily eliminates or compromises one competitor after another. It's math and probability.
The thing Jakob won't do anymore is be careless and allow someone to pass him late. He'll use the big boards to gauge things and maintain at least a couple of meters margin. Last year he wasn't overly worried about Wightman. When Wightman surged on the backstretch and settled briefly in second place, Jakob assumed he would remain there. Then as soon as Jakob turned his head left, Wightman surged again, this time into the lead for good.
The rest of the field has to decide if they are going to shake things up before Jakob has already eliminated 80% of them.
Coevett wrote:
It was the Josh Kerr shades that cost Katir the race.
Who are the Spanish athletics commentators? Is Cacho the one who always sounds like he is pumped full of helium?
MGR Fan wrote:
Mario Garcia Romo has seemed to be more of an 8/15 guy or pure miler in the past. Yes, I know he was all-American in XC in 2021 but that was the Covid year. To be a good miler you have to be strong. That being said, Ritz is likely training him like Ollie, who essentially trains like Joe with slightly less mileage and slightly less speed. Ritz is turning Garcia Romo into a distance runner, not a middle distance runner. A race like this should have been perfect for Garcia Romo in the past. His last 100 isn’t there like it used to be.
He's run 1:46.9 which is good but not elite enough to be considered an 8/15 guy on this level. If he ran 1:45 low it would be different. I bet if he cracks an 800 now he would run probably 1:46 with the training he's done. No shame though. The person that got last at USA's has a slightly faster PR and he trains like a speed guy.
my thoughts exactly a world class last lap from Mechaal but I think Katir takes it if he had better tactics. Katir IMO, is still the second best 1500m runner in the world I don't think anyone else has been able to latch themselves on to Jakob like he has. I do think that he is better suited to following a fast pace in Championship races because his Bronze last year was achieved by following a hot pace from jakob in 3:30. Yet it has been back to back years that he has lost in a championship 1500 in a time well over his PR
Super Mario wrote:
Mario needs some Vanhoy input before Ritz wrecks him.
How can that post have a 3 to 1 downvote ratio to it?
1) It's funny.
2) It gives praise to van hoy who is a very good coach. Ritz has done an amazing job but let's don't forget Van hoy got MGR to 4th in the world as a collegian.
Does anyonw know how Spain picks the team? DId you need to be top 3 to go?
Temp__Account wrote:
But this whole thread was made with a bad spirit (forwarded to Neguse and Cheruiyot)
for a poster that do a lot of misjudgments (particularly for the abilities of Katir in the 5000m)
I'm not sure what you're coming at me for. The thread was mainly commenting on Garcia Romo's concerning lack of competitiveness with the top 2 here. I think Katir is plenty good at the 5,000, and I don't underestimate him in a slower race there. In the 1,500, a drag race led by Jakob where it's all about fitness, physicality and patience suits Katir whose proved himself in that regard. If it goes a bit slower in Katir feels he needs to take it on from 500 or 600 out I'd be more concerned. But that is more likely to be the semis where a top 5 placing is fine as opposed to the final.
rojo wrote:
Does anyonw know how Spain picks the team? DId you need to be top 3 to go?
As far as I understand, yes. But I think they only have 2 athletes with the standard in the 5,000, which is why Katir didn't double like last year.
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