Cole Hocker - first American runner to go from OVERRATED to UNDERRATED on here

get it faster wrote:

Cole Hocker burst onto the scene in the lead up to the 2021 Tokyo Olympics with an incredible season - double NCAA indoor champ in the mile/3000, ran a 3:50.55 indoor mile, beat Nuguse to win 1500 outdoors, 4th in the 5k, wins the 1500 US Olympic Trials, 6th at the Olympics at the age of 19

After this incredible year (and leading up to the Olympics) people were proclaiming his as a gold medal favorite, the next great hope for the US, blah blah blah. Some things were true, some things were all hype.

However, injuries derailed his next few seasons even though he put a few decent results on the board with interrupted training. However, he still finished 7th at Outdoor World Champs last season - which is obviously an incredible result.

Fast forward to yesterday - and somehow based on the polls and threads on here he is seen as second fiddle to HOBBS KESSLER???? Who has never done a single thing in a championship race? Hocker ran 8:05 in a 2 mile last week, which is a run that got overlooked because there happened to be 2 even more incredible people in the race.

It was no surprise that he made quick work of the field yesterday and I expect big things from his outdoors. Nuguse may have passed him as a time trialer - but no one in the US 1500m has surpassed him as a tactical racer.

BOPA wrote:

get it faster wrote:

Cole Hocker burst onto the scene in the lead up to the 2021 Tokyo Olympics with an incredible season - double NCAA indoor champ in the mile/3000, ran a 3:50.55 indoor mile, beat Nuguse to win 1500 outdoors, 4th in the 5k, wins the 1500 US Olympic Trials, 6th at the Olympics at the age of 19

After this incredible year (and leading up to the Olympics) people were proclaiming his as a gold medal favorite, the next great hope for the US, blah blah blah. Some things were true, some things were all hype.

However, injuries derailed his next few seasons even though he put a few decent results on the board with interrupted training. However, he still finished 7th at Outdoor World Champs last season - which is obviously an incredible result.

Fast forward to yesterday - and somehow based on the polls and threads on here he is seen as second fiddle to HOBBS KESSLER???? Who has never done a single thing in a championship race? Hocker ran 8:05 in a 2 mile last week, which is a run that got overlooked because there happened to be 2 even more incredible people in the race.

It was no surprise that he made quick work of the field yesterday and I expect big things from his outdoors. Nuguse may have passed him as a time trialer - but no one in the US 1500m has surpassed him as a tactical racer.

I don’t know, I’m still on the fence about his tactics sometimes. Yesterday he was a bit lucky when that inside opened up. That really gave him a huge edge, especially on Hobbs who was trying to go around the outside continuously. In other races Hocker has displayed, poor tactics in my opinion.

if that inside lane hadn’t have opened up, he could’ve been trapped, making the race entirely different