Good for Rory. I often wonder how North American runners would do in these fast, non-major events(Dubai, Prague, Rotterdam, Valencia, Seville etc). I've never heard of any of the 13 athletes that beat him. Conditions must have been incredible.
What are the selection criteria for the Canadian Olympic team?
Good for Rory. I often wonder how North American runners would do in these fast, non-major events(Dubai, Prague, Rotterdam, Valencia, Seville etc). I've never heard of any of the 13 athletes that beat him. Conditions must have been incredible.
What are the selection criteria for the Canadian Olympic team?
Not 100% certain but I think the winner of their trials gets an autobid if he has achieved the standard and the other 2 are Team Canada discretionary picks. They already named Cam Levin as to the marathon team as a discretion pick since he had the time so I would guess Rory has a good chance to be named the other. I don't think anyone else has the Olympic standard.
Good for Rory. I often wonder how North American runners would do in these fast, non-major events(Dubai, Prague, Rotterdam, Valencia, Seville etc). I've never heard of any of the 13 athletes that beat him. Conditions must have been incredible.
What are the selection criteria for the Canadian Olympic team?
you may not remember it, but you've heard of Crippa. He's a boom & bust dynamo, but when he's on, he's one of the top europeans. Just only at certain times, or in certain efforts or events, never a consistent dominator.
Does this have any impact on the chances of the US getting a 3rd runner
On the Road to Paris, Korir was ranked 68th and Linkletter was 76th. When they update this, Rory should move up ahead of all the Americans. (The late Kelvin Kiptum, RIP, is still listed as No 1, so when his name is removed everyone else moves up a spot as well.)
Good for Rory. I often wonder how North American runners would do in these fast, non-major events(Dubai, Prague, Rotterdam, Valencia, Seville etc). I've never heard of any of the 13 athletes that beat him. Conditions must have been incredible.
What are the selection criteria for the Canadian Olympic team?
Not 100% certain but I think the winner of their trials gets an autobid if he has achieved the standard and the other 2 are Team Canada discretionary picks. They already named Cam Levin as to the marathon team as a discretion pick since he had the time so I would guess Rory has a good chance to be named the other. I don't think anyone else has the Olympic standard.
What trials? Levins and Elmore are already named to the team, nothing discretionary about it. Linkletter (now with the Standard) will also be named to the team in due course. Anyone else with Standard or ranking will likely also be named to the team (if any between now and the deadline). So only one spot left for the men, and two for the women. Standard will of course trump ranking.
Mo Farah wins Great Britain's first gold medal of the 2010 European Championships in Barcelona by storming to victory in the men's 10,000m. Recorded at home ...
He is coached by a former athlete who worked with the same doctor as rupp, farah and countless others who placed in the Grey zone. Not to mention, Hall had "low T" at quite a young age. In my medica studies, when you have a young healthy athlete out of no where start to have a plummet in T levels it's usually because they were playing with a supp/synthetic T for a period of time which inhibits your bodies ability to naturally produce. Honestly I can't trust results coming out of the hall coaching world nor the Ritzenhein groups. Sorry not sorry
Really incredible. Mantz, Young, Rory all on the same xc/track team at the same time. Ed knows how to pick them.
Also, there was some overlap with Nico Montanez and Connor McMillan. (McMillan has apparently retired and is putting his Chemical Engineering degree to use.)
What trials? Levins and Elmore are already named to the team, nothing discretionary about it. Linkletter (now with the Standard) will also be named to the team in due course. Anyone else with Standard or ranking will likely also be named to the team (if any between now and the deadline). So only one spot left for the men, and two for the women. Standard will of course trump ranking.
Battle for the final spots between Preisner and Woodfine. Preisner went 2:08:58 the other week that puts him in a ranking spot. Woodfine went 2:10 in Houston. Houston was a tough day, 2 celsius and they had a 20km/h headwind much of the last 8-10km so I could see him being able to shave a minute off but he is running out of time.
The women's race is also going to be interesting. I hope it pans out for Wodak - her 2:23 national record was just 6 weeks before the qualifying window opened for Paris, and her two marathons since have been the insane swelter-fest of World Champs in Budapest where she raced well but standard was never going to be on the cards and then that same race Woodfine struggled with where she was on pace for 30km but fell apart in the headwind to finish.
A potential wildcard is Andrea Seccafien who makes her marathon debut in Tokyo in a couple of weeks. Looks like BTC went pretty awfully for her and was perpetually injured but seems to be crushing 140-160km weeks from her strava with some pretty impressive workouts. Trying to hit standard on your debut is insane pressure, but she is the 10k and half marathon record holder so you'd be a fool to write her off.
This beast of a workout shows she isn't messing around.
Is it common knowledge that this guy is an d bag? I haven't talked to him in a few years, but he was notoriously egotistical and rude in high school and college.
Does this have any impact on the chances of the US getting a 3rd runner
On the Road to Paris, Korir was ranked 68th and Linkletter was 76th. When they update this, Rory should move up ahead of all the Americans. (The late Kelvin Kiptum, RIP, is still listed as No 1, so when his name is removed everyone else moves up a spot as well.)
Kiptum doesn't effect it, Kenya has many many many runners under 2:08:10 so it doesn't change the total number of entries that will have the auto-standard. Rory running the standard for Canada, which didn't already have a full trio with the standard, eats up one more of the auto slots which I believe was at 62, now it's 63. So when you then add in the people getting on world ranking, Korir is 69th now. There still needs to be 12 more people from new countries that didn't already have 3 auto people run the standard, or get ahead of Korir via ranking. There's only about 10 weeks left, I think he's safe because most of the people running under 2:08:10 are from countries that already have 3 qualifiers.
Is it common knowledge that this guy is an d bag? I haven't talked to him in a few years, but he was notoriously egotistical and rude in high school and college.